The Sword of Truth fantasy series comes to TV

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Science Fiction

Poor Robert Jordan. I was certain his The Wheel of Time series would be the first contemporary fantasy series to manufacture the leap to ongoing television series. But not only did George R.R. Martin’s much newer A Song of Ice and Fire get picked up by HBO final year to be made into a series (what’s the status on that?), now it looks like Terry Goodkind beat him to the punch, too.

Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) is teaming with ABC/Disney on 22 hour-long

episodes chronicling Goodkind’s The Sword of Truth eleven volume series, though the working title of the show appears to be the title of the first novel only: Wizard’s First Rule. Intended for syndication, Rule will be the first major fantasy syndicated series since the likes of Hercules and Xena ruled the airwaves in the late ’90s.

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