The Shannara Chronicles

Why do they even call it MTV any more?  It's obvious that the "M" doesn't stand for "music" at all.  Maybe it stands for "mostly."  As in "mostly anything else but music."  Sorry, I'm getting off topic.  Whether or not they still play music videos is a moot point.  They are now showing television that people want to watch!  Who'd a thunk it? 

It all started with Teen Wolf, a television show based on a B-movie (and that's being very generous!  An A-list actor doesn't make a movie great!) that did okay in the box office, but really took off after it hit home video.  It became a cult classic favorite.  Apparently, so has the television show!  Again, who's a thunk it?

Now, MTV is getting ready for lightning to strike twice, as they are about to bring us The Shannara Chronicles!  I have to be honest, I haven't read any of these books (and there are quite a lot of them!)  but one of my close and personal friends (who is also a ghost hunter!  How cool is that?) told me about this next project.  He'd read the books, and said that he loved them more than The Lord of the Rings trilogy!  If he hadn't told me about this, then I never would've found out about it, because who really watches MTV any more?  So, before I get started, let me give you a glimpse into the world of Shannara:

 

 

I have to admit that with all of the upcoming comic book television shows that are getting ready to come out, it's refreshing to see something that is this new and this epic!  And when I say epic, I mean epic!  Where did MTV get the money to spend on this thing?  Welcome to the world of Shannara!

 

The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear war world thousands of years in the future.  There is magic, elves, druids and princesses.  Everything that makes for a great story!  King Eventine sees that the world is getting ready to fall apart, and also sees that the only person that can help keep this from happening is Will, a half-elf that sets out to save the world.  The show is being filmed in New Zealand, where The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were filmed.  This country is absolutely beautiful!  They couldn't have picked a better location to film this thing!  Produced by Al Gough and Miles Millar (yes, the same Millar that brought us Smallville!), they are trying to bring us something that's never been seen on television before, and that alone is a giant feat!  Originally, Gough said that they were hired to make a show off of another Brooks property (sorry, Terry Brooks wrote this series) called Magic Kingdom For Sale, but after reading Elfstones of Shannara, he was blown away!  He said that when you usually read a science fiction novel that is 2000 pages long, maybe 800 of those pages deals with the actual story, with the rest just being filler, but with Shannara, it grabs you from the get go.

 

Gough and Millar brought in Brooks to help with this project, (and it also has John Favreau as Executive Producer!) and The Shannara Chronicles gets ready to take the world by storm this coming January.  So if you are like me, and forgot that MTV was still around, then go find it on your cable box or satellite!  This is one show that you won't want to miss!