Sword of Truth Miniseries!

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http://www.prophets-inc.com/news/

WFR to be made into TV miniseries
Posted: 7/24/06
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TOR BOOKS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Elena Stokes Russell Galen

Director of Publicity Agent

Tor Books Scovil Chichak Galen Agency

Sam Raimi gets Terry Goodkind’s bestselling Sword of Truth adventure series!

Sam Raimi, best known as the director of the hugely successful SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN II films, and his producing partner Joshua Donen, have optioned film rights for Terry Goodkind’s enormously popular bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH adventure series, published by Tor Books.

Having been approached by Hollywood a number of times over the past decade, Goodkind was never convinced that his 400,000 word bestselling novels could be successfully compressed into worthwhile feature films. In a meeting at the author’s home, the renowned director and producer instead conceived of a groundbreaking mini-series. Within two hours Goodkind was sold on the concept and negotiations commenced. Ten months later the deal was finally concluded. “It’s a dream come true to work with someone of such remarkable vision, talent, and ability,” Goodkind said. “Given Sam’s sincere love for these stories and his determination to only make great films, this mini-series will be a watershed event.”

All of Goodkind’s novels have been international bestsellers. Translated into 20 foreign languages, there are over 10 million copies in print. The SWORD OF TRUTH series began with WIZARD’S FIRST RULE in 1994. The 10th novel in the series, PHANTOM, is on sale now. The 11th and final volume is under contract and will be published in 2008.

Raimi and Donen hope to begin production of the opening mini-series, WIZARD’S FIRST RULE, within the next year, to be followed by ensuing volumes of the epic novels. The development process will begin while Raimi completes SPIDER-MAN III. Definitive word on the production will be available in early 2007.

Goodkind was represented in the negotiations by Russell Galen of the Scovil Chichak Galen Agency in New York City.

Kick-ass. I actually own two copies of the book, because I re-read it too regularly and don't want to damage my first (autographed) copy. Looking forward to this, I definitely am.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It's not that they're lame it's that they're SO DAMN BIG that you lose track and forget who people are by the time they show up like 3 books later. I don't have the 3 months it would take me to re-read the series and I've forgotten it all, so I doubt I'll buy book 13 when it's finally out even though I own the first 12.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Absolutely. After Soul of the Fire, I could barely stomach this series. Though I'd be more likely to compare it to Robert Jordan garbage than Forgotten Realms.

I confess to only having read through Soul of the Fire myself (mostly because after getting that far school started back up and what little reading time I have gets dedicated to textbooks), so I've got to agree with you there.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.