Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[dumbledore11214]

> Now Eustace_Scrubb:
<SNIP of the interesting movie making details>
>> As others have pointed out, the casting directors seem to have an
> unfortunate obsession with former child stars of American TV 
(Jonathan
> Jackson as the Walker? I don't know who would have worked...Andy
> Serkis?...but not Jonathan Jackson! Canadian Gregory Smith of 
Everwood
> as Max...furthermore as a Max who apparently gets in league with the
> Dark and follows Will through time?  Yikes.  And I get the feeling
> that they want the twins (Paul and Robin) to take their cue from 
Gred
> and Forge, but maybe I'm wrong.

Alla:

I already did my fainting over Jonathan Jackson as Walker, but Max as 
in Will's brother Max? He is going to get in league with the Dark? 
One of the Stantons? Sob. I guess it is a short distance to travel 
from brothers who bully Will to traitor brother. Sob, sob.

I want to call this movie "Destruction of the Stantons family"


 
> The real shame is that Susan Cooper has an impressive resume as a
> screenwriter and unlike Rowling probably could have adapted her own
> book with the needs of the screen in mind quite well.  Instead, they
> went with the screenwriter who did Trainspotting.  Oh, well.

Alla:

Shame indeed.

 
> Surprisingly, I think my 12-year old son, who finished the sequence
> over the summer and says OoTP was the worst HP movie because they 
cut
> so much out, still wants to see The Seeker (without any illusions of
> its being an "adaptation" of the Dark is Rising).  I'll probably go
> to,remembering the old horror-movie tagline as we go in: "Keep
> repeating...It's Only a Movie...It's Only a Movie."


Alla:

Good luck to you :)

 
> Sorry, didn't mean to rant so long.  At least this will make me more
> tolerant of Steve Kloves and the various directors of the HP movies.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb
>


Alla:

Oh yeah, I want to call HP movies great adaptations now and I want to 
bow to Peter Jackson for LOTR, I really do.

After all he could, you know, change so many things to make story 
unrecognisable.

And I had a nerve to be annoyed over no Shire at the end.  I mean, I 
loved the movie, but thought it should be there.

Thank you Peter Jackson for not making the movie formerly known as 
LOTR.