IGN: How faithful is the TV show to the books?

Regan: You know, what I think is faithful are the characters. Richard and Kahlan. I think that Craig (Horner, who plays Richard Cypher) and I are really staying true to who those people are in the book and their relationship. A lot of things happen really early in Legend that will happen later in the book, and there are some things that don’t even happen in the book that happen in the series.

IGN: How is it filming down in New Zealand?

Regan: It’s great. It’s perfect for the show. It’s absolutely perfect. The crew and everyone who’s working on it…there’s been so much filming there since, you know, Lord of the Rings. They worked on King Kong and Narnia, Last Samurai. There’ve just been a lot of movies that have been filmed there.

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October, 2008.

Filmed in New Zealand, which seems to be the country-of-choice for anything fantasy since “Lord of the Rings” was filmed there so many years ago, “Legend of the Seeker” is based on the popular “Sword of Truth” book series by Terry Goodkind. The series is superbly filmed, though New Zealand’s countryside definitely is attributes to the all-around beauty of the shots. Upon first viewing, one would assume that “Seeker” is a movie rather than a television series.

The series is the first film version of Goodkind’s best-selling novels and is produced by super-hero gurus, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert (Xena and Hercules). “Seeker” will be the first nationally syndicated fantasy series in a long while. Normally such a series would only be picked up by the Sci-Fi channel or some other cable outlet, leaving those of us without cable to ho hum to ourselves and hide our jealousy.

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October, 2008.