Jon Favreau Directing 'Shannara' Pilot For MTV Based On Fantasy Novel Series
The Sword of Shannara, from author Terry Brooks, is kind of a cold-war revision of J.R.R. Tolkien's ideas. The book features all the fantasy trappings of Tolkien's novels -- so much so that critics dinged Brooks for rampant borrowing -- but gives it all a nuclear origin, as the novels take place thousands of years…
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