The Dark is rising, and Walden Media's pimping for it.

[elbales]

So they're casting for a movie version of Dark is Rising. With... the Stantons changed to Americans living in the UK.

o_O

And Will's not the youngest, and his parents are "emotionally distant," and his older brothers all pick on him, and suddenly James is involved with Maggie Teh Milkmaid of Ebil. Oh, and Will's "gloomily convinced that he's doomed to be a bookish, gawky oddball at the bottom of the pecking order. However, he is actually an innately cool kid who has not yet grown into his coolness."

*weeps pitiably*

The only good thing I've heard is that Christopher Eccleston's in it. This does not outweigh the crap-ness of this blasphemous travesty of a so-called adaptation.

Bitches.
 

Comments

[cryptile.livejournal.com]

. . . because never mind that the whole thing is hugely involved with Welsh/English folklore; what it really needs is an angsty American kid!

Seriously, how stupid is that? And how much time is going to be wasted establishing Will's daddy issues and moving-to-new-country stuff instead of developing events?

Denial is just a river in Egypt

[cr0wgrrl.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, clearly they are just stealing the name. If it were an adaptation, it would, you know, be adapted from it. What you have described is clearly NOT an adaptation of it. You must have it confused with some other book.