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> New American TV series to film in NZ
> Tuesday, 13 May 2008
> The producer of television series Hercules, and Xena: Warrior Princess is returning to New
> Zealand to produce a new swords and sorcery television series.
> In a growing trend for American television, Rob Tapert will skip the step of making a pilot
> program and go straight into production of 22 episodes of Wizard's First Rule for Disney-ABC
> Domestic Television and ABC Studios.
> The show business newspaper Variety said the series has already been sold.
> Each one-hour episode will have a NZ director and the series will be shot in the Auckland
> region over 36 months, starting from next month.
> One of the episodes will be directed by New Zealand actor Michael Hurst who starred in the
> original Hercules episodes.
> Tapert, who married Xena star Lucy Lawless in 1998, is working with Spider-Man director Sam
> Raimi on the series, based on author Terry Goodkind's popular fantasy books.
> Wizard's First Rule is based around a backwoods guide, Richard Cypher, in Westland, the only
> part of the world which contains no magic.
> While investigating the mysterious murder of his father he rescues a woman, Kahlan Amnell, who
> has crossed over from the "magic" side of the world, and does battle with an evil dictator.
> The major roles will use American actors while New Zealand actors are likely to be used for
> some of the minor parts
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