Q&A, Part Two: More Legend Secrets
Part 2 of 2 of a Scifi.com interview with Sam Raimi & Rob Tapert:
In part two of our Q&A with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, executive producers of the upcoming syndicated television series Legend of the Seeker, they talk about diverging from the books, how the first-run syndication landscape has evolved since they produced Xena: Warrior Princess and Cleopatra 2525 and how and why Raimi and Tapert work together so often.
Legend of the Seeker is a fantasy-adventure-romance show based on Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule. It stars Bridget Regan, Craig Horner and Bruce Spence and kicks off with a two-hour premiere on Nov. 1. The following are edited excerpts from Raimi and Tapert’s Oct. 15 conference call with reporters.
How free are you to diverge from the books–or book, since you’re primarily adapting Wizard’s First Rule–and maybe take those characters in another direction? Or are you planning on following them pretty closely?
Tapert: We’ve actually remained true to the characters, and what we’ve done is we’ve taken aspects of the book, storylines from the book, and blended those into episodes that differ from the book or run tangentially. … We’ve had to, in the world of television, create events that were not portrayed in the book but still remained true to the characters, the theme and what’s happening within the overarching story within the book.
Source: SciFi.com
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