The Shannara Chronicles - TV Show - Looks ruddy excellent! (Manu Bennett, John Rhys-Davies)

JBod said:
Read the books around 20 years ago and can't remember a thing about them other than I liked them.
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Snap. Just about remember nearly crying when some awesome warrior-type character died in a heroic last stand. Otherwise, nothing.

Looks alright though, the series
 
Shamikebab said:
Oh wow, this is actually happening? Assuming they mostly ignore the books it could be good. The first books were terrible.
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Yeah, of all the books they could make tv shows of, I am surprised they picked these. The books bored me to death before I could manage many of them.
 
cheesyboy said:
Snap. Just about remember nearly crying when some awesome warrior-type character died in a heroic last stand. Otherwise, nothing.

Looks alright though, the series
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That was hendal the dwarf in sword of shannara a story they are apparently not telling
 
So just looked at Wikipedia and can't believe how convoluted the series chronology is. The original first-published "Sword of Shannara" series is about 4/5 series down into the overall "mega-arc", with 4/5 series following right after. Crappy books like "Knight of the Word" are also included?!!! :confused:

Looks like I missed a lot since I read the originals about 20 years ago...
 
looking forward to this. Seems a bit miscast with Allanon though? I always pictured him a a rather tall, dark with long hair kinda deep voice guy. With an English accent. Not "i'm almost spartacus"
 
Phoenix211 said:
looking forward to this. Seems a bit miscast with Allanon though? I always pictured him a a rather tall, dark with long hair kinda deep voice guy. With an English accent. Not "i'm almost spartacus"
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Ouch, that is a bizarre bit of casting. Allanon is meant to be about 7' tall and exceptionally lean, older as well. Im not a huge fan of Manu Bennett, I don't mind him, just don't think he's great. I wasn't fussed when I saw he was in it until I realised who he was playing and then just though "oh hell no." Christopher Heyerdahl is more like how I pictured Allanon. Still I'll no doubt end up watching it, see what it's like.

Who's airing it in the UK?
 
Christopher Heyerdahl is pretty much in everything. If I was an actor, I'd want his agent.
 
Lupis said:
Ouch, that is a bizarre bit of casting. Allanon is meant to be about 7' tall and exceptionally lean, older as well. Im not a huge fan of Manu Bennett, I don't mind him, just don't think he's great. I wasn't fussed when I saw he was in it until I realised who he was playing and then just though "oh hell no." Christopher Heyerdahl is more like how I pictured Allanon. Still I'll no doubt end up watching it, see what it's like.

Who's airing it in the UK?
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Don't know for sure, but as it is made by MTV I'm guessing MTV.

I must be older than you lot, I remember reading the books almost 30 years ago and waiting for Wishsong to come out in paperback!
 
nands said:
Don't know for sure, but as it is made by MTV I'm guessing MTV.

I must be older than you lot, I remember reading the books almost 30 years ago and waiting for Wishsong to come out in paperback!
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I don't know, all I've seen mentioned so far are MTV in the US and Syfy in Australia, I can't see anything about the UK.
 
This looks ok, but the casting seems terrible, The Elf King looked nothing like I Eventine to be. Earlier posters have mentioned already about Allanon been nothing like they expected. He is supposed to be dark and nearly as the evil as the demons attacking the four lands.

I don't see a listing for the Dagda Mor in the cast? And I don't see a listing for the Reaper either :( That will be disappointing. The Reaper was a great bad guy.

It will be interesting to see how the changes work.
 
Not watched the trailer, barred at work, so is this set in a post apocalyptic setting, i.e. with ruined modern buildings etc, or more of a GoT setting? I've only ever read the original trilogy and at the time I had no inkling it was supposed to be set in the far future of actual earth. Did he always have this back story in mind from the very beginning when he did the first three books, or was the whole post nuclear war idea bolted on afterwards?
 
Bubo said:
Not watched the trailer, barred at work, so is this set in a post apocalyptic setting, i.e. with ruined modern buildings etc, or more of a GoT setting? I've only ever read the original trilogy and at the time I had no inkling it was supposed to be set in the far future of actual earth. Did he always have this back story in mind from the very beginning when he did the first three books, or was the whole post nuclear war idea bolted on afterwards?
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Pretty much always there. Though its never really a core concept in the books, just touched on at times.
 
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