The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice

[Geekyfanboy]

Did anyone watch the first two TV Movies - The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines.. I did and I really enjoyed them. I'm glad to see they are making a third one.

Wyle Returns For Librarian 3

Noah Wyle is set to return as Flynn Carsen in the third installment of TNT's Librarian franchise, The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice, producer Electric Entertainment announced. Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin will also reprise their roles, with Bruce Davison (X-Men) and Stana Katic (Feast of Love) joining the cast.

Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), who directed the second Librarian installment, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, will once again take the helm. Electric Entertainment's Dean Devlin, Kearie Peak and Marc Roskin are executive-producing. Wyle and Electric's Phil Goldfarb are producing, with the company's Rachel Olschan co-producing. The project began shooting in New Orleans this week.

The Librarian: The Curse Of The Judas Chalice opens with a restless Flynn attempting to assimilate back into his career as a librarian at the New York Metropolitan Library after many adventures abroad. Led to New Orleans by strange dreams, he finds himself in the midst of uncovering a conspiracy that involves the notorious vampire Prince Vlad Dracul. Once again, Flynn must overcome his fears and protect one of the world's most sacred artifacts, the Judas Chalice, or face the consequences of it falling into the wrong hands.

Newhart returns as Judson, who once having been a librarian, now serves as head of the library. Curtin comes back as Charlene, the extremely serious-minded, no-nonsense personnel director for the library.

Katic plays Simone Renoir, a gorgeous young New Orleans jazz-club singer, who uses her hypnotic performances to charm an off-guard Flynn. Turned into a vampire by the infamous Vlad Dracul 400 years ago, Simone has been on a lifelong hunt to find the man who condemned her soul to walk the night forever. She teams up with Flynn to outwit those hoping to find the chalice and use it for their evil agenda.

Davison plays Professor Lazlo, an elderly, crippled man who is a brilliant professor at the University of Bucharest. Seemingly harmless, he is taken hostage by the villainous Kubichek, who wants Lazlo to lead him to the Judas Chalice.

TNT's Librarian franchise of movies has proven successful for the network. The first installment, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, ranked as ad-supported cable's number-one movie of 2004. The second installment, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, ranks as ad-supported cable's number-one original movie sequel of all time and placed among the top five movie telecasts of 2006.

[Dan M]

I watched the first movie, and thought it was one of the worst things I'd ever seen.

[Rico]

I've seen both of them and found them fun.  Kind of Indiana Jones light.  For TV movies, I've seen much worse.  Yes - I'm talking to you Sci-Fi Saturday night movies!  Anyway, I guess they have done well enough in the ratings to make a third.

[Geekyfanboy]

I watched the first movie, and thought it was one of the worst things I'd ever seen.

I have to totally disagree with you here Pickard.. Rico is right have you seen any of the Sci-Fi Saturday night movies??? Those make the Librarian look like Oscar worthy movies.

And as Rico said.. they a fun.

[Dan M]

I avoid those Sci-Fi saturday movies, Kenny.  They couldn't suck me in like The Librarian did.

I get that the tone is intentionally light, even lighter than the Indy movies, but, for me, it went too far past "light" and got to "stupid".

I wanted to like it.  I liked the cast.