SciFi.com: Interview with Sam, Rob, Craig, Bridget
“Sam Rami and crew bring Terry Goodkind’s best-selling series to TV with Legend of the Seeker ”
It’s been several years since Herc and Xena and Cleopatra 2525. So, why are you coming back to television now?
Raimi: Well, Rob probably has his own answer, but I’ll say I just so loved Terry Goodkind’s books, and Wizard’s First Rule is really just the first in a series. I think he’s got 11 books in the series. And they’re so gripping and you can’t put them down. I just wanted to bring this to the screen, this material to the screen. And I was thinking with Rob and Josh Donen, “Guys, do we make it a movie? Because if we did, even if we just made the first book, we’d have to cut out so much, and that would be terrible.” And then we said, “Do we make it as a five-part miniseries? Because then that couldn’t touch all the great stories and materials. What will we do?” And it was really Terry Goodkind that decided that he wanted to do it as a television program, a weekly television program, because he felt that we could best relate most of the most important aspects of the series of books to that format. There was enough time to touch on enough of the ideas that it could be more satisfying than the other alternatives. I think in any translation to a film medium or a television medium there’s going to be some things lost and some things gained. And I think he knew that. And I don’t want to speak for Terry, but I think that he felt that this would be the best chance at retaining the most of the most important aspects of the books.
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