Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[dumbledore11214]

> JP
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> PS: Has anyone seen the previews for the new movie "The Seeker"?
Harry Potter, Jr anyone? I think the main character's name is Larry
Topper. hehe :P

Magpie:
Them's fightin' words. That is the movie of The Dark is Rising, a
book (and series) that came out well before Harry Potter. The main
character is Will Stanton, my fictional love since the age of 11. In
the book he's nothing like Harry, really (except for becoming a
wizard at 11 and being English, I guess) but the movie has
completely changed the story and Will. The Dark is Rising fandom has
been watching developments on it with growing horror. Imagine if the
HP movies had made Harry American, changed the Dursleys into nice
people, changed Ron and Hermione into one person and made Harry bff
with Snape. That's the kind of changes we're talking about.


Alla:

Oh dear, oh dear and oh dear again. See that is the kind of movie 
making that makes me so very angry sometimes at people who try to 
make the adaptations.

I actually want to tell them - stick to at least heart of the story, 
or do not do it at all.

If I want to see movie **based** on the book, I want to recognise 
the  book in it. Yes, I am wierd that way, sigh.

No, I am not talking about shortening the story - I understand the 
necessity of that, I may grumble about it, but I understand, but WTF -
 the changes that I just read about on Wiki.

I KNOW I am not seeing that movie, no matter how good in itself it 
can be.

I love Will Stanton as well and NO, he is not like Harry at all 
indeed besides being English and becoming a wizard at eleven. Not 
even close.


And he is NOT, he is NOT American, oh my goodness. Sorry, annoyed. 
But the whole story loses so much of sense. It is based on English 
folklor. On *English**. And I wonder is Bran still Pendragon? Is he 
even there?

Sorry, annoyed.

Alla