QUEEN OF FIRE
NEW EPIC TV SERIES
It is unusual for an adaptation to have different protagonist than the book, but this is exactly what will happen in QUEEN OF FIRE epic TV series which The Whole Spiel and Lone Wolf Pictures will make out of Anthony Ryan's famous epic sagas Raven's Shadow and Raven's Blade which have five books in total sold in more than million copies with your trusted spy as one of
the European translators. The series will be based on characters, stories and legends from these books with Stephen McDonogh, Paul Telegdy and Ryan himself executive producing!
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| The series will be based on Ryan's books |
QUEEN OF FIRE will follow princess Lyrna who, despite the malign
manipulations of her father, rises to lead an empire in uncovering the
truth of the forbidden powers of the Dark; Reva, a young woman, born to
privilege, stolen from her loving home, raised to kill and blinded by
revenge; and ‘The Woman,’ as she is simply known, a cruel, ruthless and
utterly unrepentant soul in the body of a beautiful woman with an
insatiable lust for power who will stop at nothing for the promise of
immortality. The series will also features the lead hero from the books -
Vaelin, a legendary warrior, server of the faith, possessor of a gift,
known as ‘the Blood Song,’ a form of precognition, guiding his sword in
battle 
and showing him the right path. Non-stop action, with heretics
challenging the monastic orders of faith, legendary characters and
monstrous creatures in an extraordinary struggle for power spanning a
world of empires, are part of the story of people and empires bitterly
divided, and the vital necessity of overcoming their differences to have
any hope of making a better world.
and showing him the right path. Non-stop action, with heretics
challenging the monastic orders of faith, legendary characters and
monstrous creatures in an extraordinary struggle for power spanning a
world of empires, are part of the story of people and empires bitterly
divided, and the vital necessity of overcoming their differences to have
any hope of making a better world.
Did you enjoy the books as you were translating them?
ReplyDeleteHe has his weak points, but he generally is a very good writer with Lyrna and Vaelin being extremely memorable characters, so yes I did enjoy it heaps and wish we bought the duology as well but we have not. It took me nine months of non stop work to translate Ravens Shadow as the books are so big that we even had to split the third one into two tomes.
DeleteI think I remember you translating that one. It did seem like a very big project you took on. I hope it paid well.
DeleteTranslating never pays well LOL
DeleteGreat blog
ReplyDeleteIt is beyond amazing, true that.
DeleteNot sure if I would enjoy this TV series, maybe I should start with the books first.
ReplyDeleteThey are very very very fat! It took me nine months to translate them all.
DeleteThis sounds like the story of Tangled, but on level 10. LOL
ReplyDeleteIt does?
DeleteYes! In Tangled the baby is stolen from the king and queen while they are sleeping. She is raised to believe that she has to hide from her people because they want to cut off her hair to keep it for themselves. Meanwhile, it is the woman that she called mother that kidnapped her, raised her to fear her real family, and that really wants her hair.
ReplyDeleteHow is that in any way connected with the story above looool Princess Lyrna is not kidnapped and does not even have a mother in the books LOL
Delete"Reva, a young woman, born to privilege, stolen from her loving home, raised to kill and blinded by revenge" - Sounds like Tangled to me, but, I do fantasize often so don't mind me! lol
ReplyDeleteNo, it defo isn't Tangled, Reva is a girl who does not really know that she is a princess of Cumbrael while she is being raised by some nasty priest to become an assassin. Later on she becomes the lady governess of Cumbrael after Vaelin teaches her all he knows of fighting. She is lesbi, by the way and likes to shag with her aunt, which was very weird for me in the book.
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