Legend of the Seeker Debuts This Weekend

Posted on October 30, 2008

Legend of the Seeker - a new Fantasy series based on the Terry Goodkind's bestselling The Sword of Truth novels - debuts this weekend. The series comes from the creators of Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Reuters dubs the series "cheesy" but we though Hercules and Xena were great fun.

Perhaps this proves that we're all still suckers for witches and warlocks and gargoyles and elaborate visual effects and guys with six-pack abs pretending not to be attracted to hot babes with abundant cleavage.
Mounted by the creators of "Xena" and "Hercules" and based on the best-selling novels of Terry Goodkind, "Seeker" is both endearingly retro and agonizingly humorless, a kind of poor man's "Lord of the Rings" that, like "Rings," was shot in the breathtaking wilds of New Zealand.
The opening two-hour stanza, adapted from Goodkind's "Wizard's First Rule," is rife with spectacular vistas and dazzling visuals from effects supervisors Dean Clarke and Charlie McClellan and overseen by the esteemed partners Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and their fellow exec producers.

There should always be a Hercules or Xena type of show on the air. You can read more articles about the Seeker here, here and here. You can find more about the film on the official website at legendoftheseeker.com and on the sword-of-truth.com website.

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