5/22/2023 0 Comments Susan cooper's the dark is rising![]() In order to save the world, our hero, Ludwig, must locate six "signs" - all of which happen, conveniently, to be located within a few miles of his own home. Thus, after a thousand years of inactivity, The Dark is marshalling his power (why now? we're never told). Now, perhaps inevitably, Cooper's hour has come - in a new film directed by one David L Cunningham, a self-described "missionary to Hollywood", and produced by Walden Media, the Christian film production company who gave us The Chronicles of Narnia, last year's remake of Charlotte's Web, and the forthcoming Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.Īh, but caveat emptor! The makers have taken considerable liberties with their source material - not only changing the nationality of the hero and his family (to American), and the title throughout the rest of the world (to The Seeker), but also excising virtually the entire back story of the town and its inhabitants, and turning the original narrative - fairly gripping, you might recall - into little more than a find-the-treasures video game. But then came Peter Jackson, whose Lord of the Rings made epic fantasy a profitable concern. ![]()
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