The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) on Netflix
TV-PG20041h 46mActionAdventureComedy
Flynn Carsen, a perpetual student with 22 degrees, is hired as Librarian of a library whose hidden vault guards magical artifacts. A cult steals one piece of the Spear of Destiny.
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Plot summary
Flynn Carsen has spent his adult life in college, collecting 22 degrees, and Professor Harris and his mother Margie tell him he needs experience outside it. A job offer brings him to the Metropolitan Public Library, where Judson explains that the post of Librarian dates back thousands of years and that its holder safeguards magical objects kept in a hidden Library far below the city branch. One of the three pieces of the Spear of Destiny has been taken by the Serpent Brotherhood, and Judson chooses Flynn to recover the other two. His first errand takes him to the Amazon rainforest, carrying a volume in the Language of the birds, and there he meets Nicole Noone, the Guardian sent to protect him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In May 2003 it was announced that TNT and Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment would team up to produce the action-adventure TV film The Librarian, and in May 2004 it was announced that Noah Wyle would play the title character.
- The film led to a one-hour TV series, The Librarians, which premiered on TNT on December 7, 2014 with a ten-episode season and ran for four seasons, and to a second series, The Librarians: The Next Chapter, which premiered on May 25, 2025.
- The character Nicole Noone does not appear in the other Librarian films; her fate is finally explored in season 4 of the TV series, where she is portrayed by Rachel Nichols.
- Writer David Titcher's script was nominated for the 2006 Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing for a Long Form (Original) by the Writers Guild of America.
