Johnson has also had a recurring role in US fantasy series Game of Thrones, playing a mute executioner.
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For instance, another instalment of the Final Fantasy series, called Seekers of Adoulin, is due to be released in March 2013.
It is the eighth and final film in the blockbuster fantasy series.
Games companies including Square Enix, maker of the Final Fantasy series, and Namco Bandai, creator of Soul Calibur, have pledged their support.
Older actors whose names have been linked to the role include 71-year-old David Warner, who was seen as a Russian scientist in a recent episode of the BBC One fantasy series.
His recent Emmy for his part in the glossy HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones gives some measure of his success, but his career path is not one that all dwarf actors would be able to follow.
Now, bereft fans are hoping that "The Wheel of Time" can join the ranks of fantasy series that have found a broader audience through successful adaptations, such as Mr. Martin's series (the basis of HBO's "Game of Thrones") and J.
He joined about 100 guests, who included British actress Emilia Clarke, who stars in US fantasy series Game of Thrones, and senior executives from companies such as Virgin and British Airways at the reception, held in a fashion photographic studio that has been used by Madonna.
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"The Chronicles of Narnia" may lack the visual distinction of the great fantasy film series such as "Rings, " but at least "Prince Caspian" is a step in the right direction.
It took Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian 17 years to find a publisher for her now twelve-book Tara Duncan fantasy novel series before a publisher in France, where she lives, made the leap in 2003.
He is the author of a series of fantasy novels full of bad computer jokes.
Tracy Hickman, of course, is the author of the Dragonlance books, a series of fantasy fiction I devoured when I was younger.
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First Minister Peter Robinson has said he is hopeful Northern Ireland will be the location for any new series of the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones.
Bella Swan is, of course, the heroine in the Twilight Saga series, the vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer that have been adapted to film with the latest installment, Breaking Dawn, coming out on Nov. 18 starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
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On April 17th, HBO will take a pricey plunge into the fantasy genre when it debuts its hotly-anticipated series Game Of Thrones.
The HBO series, based on the best-selling fantasy books by George R.
Of course, defenders of the series insist its entire basis is as a modern fantasy - and suspension of disbelief is required during the sex scenes just as much as it is for the fights, car chases, gadgets and super-villains.
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Guardian Cross features Final Fantasy-esque graphics and sounds, and even contains some familiar faces from the series on cards.
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Gaiman, whose honors include the Newbery Medal for children's writing, the Hugo for science-fiction and fantasy and a Carnegie Medal in literature, has written fantasy epics "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" and the groundbreaking graphic-novel series "The Sandman, " among other works.
The epic fantasy adventure is a dramatisation of the second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels by George RR Martin.
Readers of the series lived with Harry, but also with Rowling, as the almost-visible engineer of a great fantasy machine that, in the course of seven volumes, runs with remarkable smoothness.
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