Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Shannara
12/31/06 -
Warner Brothers has acquired screen rights to The Shannara,
the best-selling fantasy book series by Terry Brooks. Warner has
franchise hopes for Brooks' 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. The Shannara has never been optioned
for film treatment because the author has avoided it until now.
Warner intends to develop The Elfstones of Shannara, the
second book in the series, as the first film.
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