For fans of Terry Brooks’ best-selling Shannara books, the wait is almost over.
During its panel at New York Comic-Con on Saturday, MTV announced that The Shannara Chronicles will premiere Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 10/9c, following the return of Teen Wolf.
Starring Austin Butler (The Carrie Diaries) as a half-elf named Wil Ohmsford, the epic fantasy drama follows a trio of adventurers as they fight to restore the mystical Ellcrys Tree and save the land of Shannara from a bevy of demonic threats.
The Shannara Chronicles also stars Ivana Baquero as Eretria, Manu Bennett (Arrow) as Allanon, Poppy Drayton (When Calls the Heart) as Amberle and John Rhys-Davies (Once Upon a Time) as Eventine.
Hit PLAY on the new trailer below, then drop a comment: Will you be watching The Shannara Chronicles?
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I love post apocalyptic fiction. All this is missing is Taylor hitting the beach sand with his fist.
it’s not really like most post apocalyptic works, it’s pretty much a regular fantast series, the fact that it takes place after the apocalyse, is very much downplayed.
That’s sort of unfortunate. One thing that does appeal to me about this is watching these sort of people in places from our world. Like Thundarr (if you’re too young to know what Thundarr is, go to Youtube, lol).
This looks surprisingly good. I wonder what the budget is. It’s probably more than other MTV originals, but even so I can’t help thinking the effects team must be quite talented to make their funds pay off so well.
considering the production team are the same guys who made lord of the rings and the hobbit I can assume its pricey.
They clearly have more money than Syfy’s Olympus did…
Casting an elven king, and they choose the actor who played perhaps the most iconic dwarf in cinematic history. Ah, the irony.
Though, to be fair, if you can convince JRD to be in your fantasy project, you’d be a fool not to cast him.
This looks really cool. Shadowhunters’ production looks so much worse by comparison.
It looks really good! I just hope they don’t include a love triangle.
Can NOT wait! I started reading these books when I was a kid and have loved them ever since. Very excited!
Not quite sure about this… I don’t think I’ll be tuning in.
geez, at least give it a try, if you don’t like it you can stop watching.
Wow. This is going to be so cool. Makes me want next year to start already! Hope they stay close to the books.
They better not screw this up. Shannara is one of my top three series of all time. Wheel of Time, Song of ice and fire, and this. I would have pictured Allanon as much much older though. Like Gandalf old