With the last
Harry Potter film to open in a couple of years time, Warner Brothers are moving quickly to hunt down a new fantasy series to generate them some green.
Variety report they have turned to
The Shannara, the best-selling fantasy series written by Terry Brooks. Brooks is apparently the second biggest selling fantasy author living today after Potter scribe J.K. Rowling, so their intention here is obvious.
WB has franchise hopes for his 14-book series, which is set 1,000 years in the future, in a world populated by elves, trolls, gnomes and dwarves in a post-apocalyptic Earth. The Shannara family is a half-Elf, half-man clan with magical abilities and warrior skills who must save the world.
14 BOOKS! Do you think they will cut it down to two books a film? That would leave it at 7, the same number as the Harry Potter series. And a 1,000 years into the future? I'm guessing this world will look a whole lot different to ours. How can people come up with worlds so far into the future? I wonder if Morlocks will occupy the land.