Producer/director Sam Raimi and his producing partner Joshua Donen have optioned the film rights to Terry Goodkind's bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH adventure series to turn into a miniseries, published by Tor Books, the ComingSoon.net website reported.
Goodkind's novels have been international bestsellers, translated into 20 foreign languages, with more than 10 million copies in print. The SWORD OF TRUTH series began in 1994 with WIZARD'S FIRST RULE. The 10th novel in the series, PHANTOM, is on sale now. The 11th and final volume is under contract to be published in 2008.
Raimi and Donen hope to begin production of the opening miniseries, WIZARD'S FIRST RULE, within the next year, which will then be followed by ensuing volumes of the epic novels. The development process will get underway while Raimi completes SPIDER-MAN 3.
