Two join Raimi's 'Wizard's First Rule'

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Craig Horner and Bridget Regan have joined the cast of Sam Raimi's fantasy television series Wizard's First Rule, says The Hollywood Reporter.

An hour-long series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, the show is based on Terry Goodkind's fantasy series The Sword of Truth.

Horner has been cast as Richard Cypher, a woodsman who becomes a wizard to stop an evil tyrant. Regan will play a mysterious woman named Kahlan.

Production on the 22-episode series will begin this month in New Zealand. The show will debut in the autumn.

Raimi will executive produce the series with Robert Tapert, Joshua Donen, Ned Nalle and John Shiban.

He is currently directing the horror film Drag Me To Hell for Universal.