'Lord of the Rings' Producers Introduce Our New Nerdy Obsession: 'The Quest'

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Everealm, the fictional setting of ABC's new fantasy-meets-reality TV experiment The Quest, is a land under siege. But a prophecy predicts the kingdom will find salvation in one True Hero, to be picked from a lot of 12 strangers from another land.


The actual identity of said hero is to be determined — and it's also the whole point of the show.



"We took a typical challenge-challenge-elimination reality show format and plopped it down in the middle of a movie," Oscar-winning executive producer Mark Ordesky, known for his work on The Lord of the Rings, tells Mashable. "We said, 'How do we merge these two?'" Read more...


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