The Chronicles of Shannara - (US Pace)
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Looks quite interesting and looks like it has a serious amount of money put into it. Its a surprising move by MTV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjkQHnDYu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjkQHnDYu0
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The series will be based of Elfstones of Shannara so Jax won't be in it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051220/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
They're apparently going to cover Sword in later series' (presumably if it gets renewed). I'm looking forward to this, Terry Brooks was one of the first fantasy authors I read. I did eventually give up with Shannara though as he seemed to reach a point where he was just putting out anything and giving it the Shannara tag.
I'll have to go dig all my books out of the garage and have a re-read. I don't think I've looked at them for more than 20 years
Very excited. MTV are showing they have some chops doing this, but after Teen Wolf, I'm excited!
I read an article which said the producers had originally planned to dramatize another Terry Brooks book, Magic Kingdom For Sale
Thank you for the info! I had not read too much about the forthcoming series yet! January cannot come soon enough. I hope the series is a big hit.
I hope it's an enormous hit and one of the freeview channels buys it. ;-):)
Hope it does well.
That could have been good. I always thought it lent itself to being filmed for TV or Cinema better than most fantasy books.
I agree. It wasn't clear (to me) that it was the far future. It seemed pretty fantasy to me. I know it made vague mention, but I guess it doesn't matter.
What DOES matter to me is the casting and the story and I'm not sure they've got this at all right with Manu. Sure, he's tall, we get it, but he seems so far from Allanon it's untrue.
I'll still hope patiently. We'll find out in six months!
Edit.... Just realised how many I haven't read in the series, so will have to see if the library has them.
But will say the visuals look absolutely stunning, and it certainly seems to have had real money spent on it.....
So, looking forward to this...
PS.... Hope one day they make the Landover series, it was great fun and one of my first forays into fantasy before I discovered Terry Pratchett...
Me too. I must have read them at least 20 years ago and I just thought it was your basic fantasy world.
Only read the original trilogy, mind you.
I just looked and there are now 29 books
I might re-read the trilogy but I'm not sure about 29 of them!
I think most, if not all the books are available on kindle. There are at least 9 available on ibooks.
In the early books there isn't any indication (as far as I can recall) that it's set on a future Earth.
Later books reveal that the world was once a lot more advanced than it currently is but I don't think it's till Brooks links the Shannara Books to the Word and Void Books (initially a separate series set in present day Earth) that it's clear all the books are set on Earth.
Always felt that The Heritage of Shannara (4 book series that comes after the original trilogy) was the high point of the whole series* with the books getting steadily worse after that (not read the more recent ones though).
*I still think of the Word and Void books (which I remember liking more than the Shannara books) as a separate series.
Yeah, the only reference I remember was the metal graveyard, although that was enough for me to realise it was a future Earth, but it wasn't a lot to give definitive proof.
Meet the characters:
http://www.blastr.com/2015-11-18/meet-characters-mtvs-shannara-chronicles-these-5-new-videos
High production values for sure. The writers from Smallville had been pursuing this for awhile but were never going to snare a deal with one of the main US networks after their issues with Warner Bros. So they've taken their ball and run off to cable. MTV is increasingly setting out on a different course realising the fatigue and saturation of reality TV was eroding their brand. Hopefully, like other cable networks they'll give the writers of their programmes more freedom.
Sky Atlantic would be my guess
I don't know, Sky1 seems more likely to me. TSC doesn't seem "up-market" enough for Sky Atlantic. But then I always think the same thing of Blue Bloods, which is on Sky Atlantic but just doesn't fit with the other US imports on Sky Atlantic.
Given that MTV have made it, why wouldn't they show it here?