Sam Raimi Has Found His Next Directing Gig with THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLES

Sam Raimi is about to jump on board his next film project. He is currently in negotiations to helm The Kingkiller Chronicles, which is based on the classic book series by Pat Rothfuss. Raimi will work with Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on the project as he is set to serve as the creative producer and musical mastermind of the feature film. There's also a TV series that is in development that he's involved with.

Sam Raimi has directed a film since 2013's Oz The Great and Powerful, so it's awesome to see that he's got a new film project to jump on board. Since he made Oz, Raimi has been working on the Ash Vs. Evil Dead series. 

The Kingkiller Chronicles film will be an adaptation of the first book in the series, "The Name of the Wind." The script will be adapted by Lindsey Beer, who most recently served as a writer on Transformers: The Last Knight. Hopefully, she does better with this script than The Last Knight!

The series is centered on the wizard Kvothe, who survives a tragic childhood to become a notorious household name. “The Kingkiller Chronicle” series of books and novellas has sold 10 million copies, and the first two books — “The Name of the Wind” and “The Wise Man’s Fear” — were New York Times bestsellers.

This is the description from the book that the first film will be based on:

Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. 

The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. 

A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.

This sounds like it will be a great fantasy project for Raimi to take on and I'm looking forward to seeing what he ends up doing with it.

Have you read the book series and do you think Raimi is the right man for the job?

Source: Variety