The Dark is Rising
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alonewiththemoonSome Dark is Rising movie news from scifi.com:
Ian McShane (HBO's Deadwood) is starring in The Dark Is Rising, a fantasy film for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media, Variety reported. David Cunningham will direct, and Marc Platt will produce. Frances Conroy (Shopgirl) and Alexander Ludwig also star. Production begins this month in Romania.
Based on a volume in the five-book series by Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising focuses on a youth, Will Stanton (Ludwig), who discovers at age 11 that he's the last of a group of immortals—the Old Ones—dedicated to fighting a growing presence of dark forces. He comes to the realization he's charged with saving the world.
McShane will play Merriman Lyon, one of the Old Ones who serves as Stanton's mentor and shield. John Hodge (Trainspotting) is adapting the project for the big screen.
That's really interesting casting. Not quite what I had envisioned for Merriman--I think I had pictured an old and grey-haired Tom Baker--but I think that could really work. I suppose Frances Conroy (Ruth Fisher) will be The Lady, which could work very nicely. I can totally see her in neo-medieval garb.
Ian McShane (HBO's Deadwood) is starring in The Dark Is Rising, a fantasy film for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media, Variety reported. David Cunningham will direct, and Marc Platt will produce. Frances Conroy (Shopgirl) and Alexander Ludwig also star. Production begins this month in Romania.
Based on a volume in the five-book series by Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising focuses on a youth, Will Stanton (Ludwig), who discovers at age 11 that he's the last of a group of immortals—the Old Ones—dedicated to fighting a growing presence of dark forces. He comes to the realization he's charged with saving the world.
McShane will play Merriman Lyon, one of the Old Ones who serves as Stanton's mentor and shield. John Hodge (Trainspotting) is adapting the project for the big screen.
That's really interesting casting. Not quite what I had envisioned for Merriman--I think I had pictured an old and grey-haired Tom Baker--but I think that could really work. I suppose Frances Conroy (Ruth Fisher) will be The Lady, which could work very nicely. I can totally see her in neo-medieval garb.
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:25 pm (UTC)I think it will not work, but then it would have to be pretty amazing for me to accept it.
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Date: 2007-02-13 06:32 pm (UTC)All these movies of books I love are making me very anxious. Somehow Narnia and Lord of the Rings weren't that anxiety-inducing, but this and His Dark Materials, oof, they better get it right...
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Date: 2007-02-13 07:12 pm (UTC)i've not read any of his dark materials.
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Date: 2007-02-14 03:51 am (UTC)I have no idea who these actors are, except for Frances Conroy and I love her.