Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Rami's next project


From darkhorizons, Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi is teaming with Disney & ABC Studios on a live-action weekly fantasy series aiming to premiere this Fall reports Reuters.

Entitled "Wizard's First Rule," the series is based on Terry Goodkind's best-selling epic fantasy series "The Sword of Truth" currently eleven books long.

"Sword" follows the extraordinary transformation of woodsman Richard Cypher into a magical leader who joins with a mysterious woman to stop a bloodthirsty tyrant.

Raimi and Robert Tapert are executive producing the series. Production on twenty-two episodes is slated to begin in May.

2 comments:

Johnny Sweatpants said...

You lost me at "live action fantasy television". Is there anything lamer?

Octopunk said...

Aw c'mon! Don't you like bargain-basement CG? It'll be like that Hercules show!

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