Legend Of The Seeker

Legend Of The Seeker

"Legend of the Seeker" was originally named "Wizards First Rule."

The first season of "Legend of the Seeker" will be 22 one hour episodes on Saturday evenings and it will be shot in HD. Check your local listings for the station in your area.

the following is from Terry Goodkind's site. The first season will cover the story of WIZARD'S FIRST RULE. The TV series also brings unique challenges. All film formats TV series, mini-series, or feature films must, to a greater or lesser extent, alter the novel in order to translate the story from words to pictures. A feature film has severe limitations of time, requiring major parts of novels to be cut out. Sam Raimi knew that a feature film of WIZARD'S FIRST RULE could never work to tell the story. That's why he wanted to do a long format TV show. I'm especially pleased that we are going to be doing 22 one hour episodes to tell this epic story much more time than a mini-series would have afforded. That said, there must still be changes, yet within those changes lie exciting opportunities.

You may have noticed in the press release that Sam Raimi said the show will be produced as compelling, self-contained episodes. The nature of TV syndication requires that each week's episode be a story in itself, meaning that while the TV series will follow the background story of the book, it will not be able to follow the book exactly because there would be parts that would make an incomplete episode.

Therein lies the opportunity. The TV series, being visual, will actually require that we expand on the book in order to make each of these episodes work. Since each episode will have to be able to stand alone, some places will require additional material, so, as an example, we may incorporate some of the backstory into the show, showing, say, George Cypher going to get The Book of Counted Shadows. This means that the series will actually have more story content than the novel.

No series (or mini-series, or feature film) can follow the underlying book exactly. Sam Raimi and his team want to keep the TV series true to my vision, so rest assured that I am going to be intimately involved in the writing of each of the episodes. If you love the book just the way it is, then enjoy the book for what it is and come to the TV series prepared to enjoy the show for what it is.

Besides Sam Raimi, Josh Donen, and Rob Tapert, Disney ABC
Domestic Television was excited by the prospect of the series and they wanted to be involved. Besides being involved with producing the series, Disney also wants to be able to develop WIZARD'S FIRST RULE and the characters into a franchise. To that end they have bought all the rights to my work (except book rights). That means everything from merchandising rights to game rights to feature film rights all based on the books and the characters. Like many studios, Disney will not become involved in any project of this nature unless they can obtain all the rights, and those rights must all be clean. This is the reason I've never allowed any portion of the rights to be sold or used. To maintain the value of pristine rights it was necessary not to allow, for example, anyone to make copies of the Sword of Truth, or to buy game rights. In order to make a deal like this the rights had to be virgin.

With Disney now on board we have some of the most gifted people in the world working to make this project not just exciting but successful.

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