W00t.
Oooo, just found out that my favorite director, Sam Raimi, is directing a miniseries based off of my favorite book series (The Sword of Truth)! All I have to say is that Bruce Campbell had BETTER be in the series somewhere :p.
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 successfulSPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN II films, and his producing partner JoshuaDonen, have optioned film rights for Terry Goodkind’s enormouslypopular bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH adventure series, published by TorBooks.
Having been approached by Hollywood a number of times over thepast decade, Goodkind was never convinced that his 400,000 wordbestselling novels could be successfully compressed into worthwhilefeature films. In a meeting at the author’s home, the renowned directorand producer instead conceived of a groundbreaking mini-series. Withintwo hours Goodkind was sold on the concept and negotiations commenced.Ten months later the deal was finally concluded. “It’s a dream cometrue to work with someone of such remarkable vision, talent, andability,” Goodkind said. “Given Sam’s sincere love for these storiesand his determination to only make great films, this mini-series willbe a watershed event.”
All of Goodkind’s novels have been international bestsellers.Translated into 20 foreign languages, there are over 10 million copiesin print. The SWORD OF TRUTH series began with WIZARD’S FIRST RULE in1994. The 10th novel in the series, PHANTOM, is on sale now. The 11thand final volume is under contract and will be published in 2008.
Raimi and Donen hope to begin production of the openingmini-series, WIZARD’S FIRST RULE, within the next year, to be followedby ensuing volumes of the epic novels. The development process willbegin while Raimi completes SPIDER-MAN III. Definitive word on theproduction 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.
I recently bought the 5th-8th books. I'm on 7. Off to continue reading.
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 successfulSPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN II films, and his producing partner JoshuaDonen, have optioned film rights for Terry Goodkind’s enormouslypopular bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH adventure series, published by TorBooks.
Having been approached by Hollywood a number of times over thepast decade, Goodkind was never convinced that his 400,000 wordbestselling novels could be successfully compressed into worthwhilefeature films. In a meeting at the author’s home, the renowned directorand producer instead conceived of a groundbreaking mini-series. Withintwo hours Goodkind was sold on the concept and negotiations commenced.Ten months later the deal was finally concluded. “It’s a dream cometrue to work with someone of such remarkable vision, talent, andability,” Goodkind said. “Given Sam’s sincere love for these storiesand his determination to only make great films, this mini-series willbe a watershed event.”
All of Goodkind’s novels have been international bestsellers.Translated into 20 foreign languages, there are over 10 million copiesin print. The SWORD OF TRUTH series began with WIZARD’S FIRST RULE in1994. The 10th novel in the series, PHANTOM, is on sale now. The 11thand final volume is under contract and will be published in 2008.
Raimi and Donen hope to begin production of the openingmini-series, WIZARD’S FIRST RULE, within the next year, to be followedby ensuing volumes of the epic novels. The development process willbegin while Raimi completes SPIDER-MAN III. Definitive word on theproduction 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.
I recently bought the 5th-8th books. I'm on 7. Off to continue reading.