HAHA. The Dark is rising movie again

[sistermagpie]

> Alla:
> 
> Here dear, more help for your screen writing efforts:
> 
> 
> http://movies.ign.com/articles/788/788993p1.html
> 
> 
> "Names like Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who) and Ian McShane 
> (Deadwood) populate the cast list, but Cunningham cites the 
character 
> of the Walker, as played by Jonathan Jackson (Riding the Bullet), 
as 
> an example of how he hopes to appeal to a younger crowd.
> 
> "Even in the books, Walker was a young man who had aged and he'd 
gone 
> back in time so long, so it was a matter of what was our emphasis 
> going to be?" says the director. "The tragedy of a young man or the 
> history of an old man? And we chose to focus on the previous and 
> really make it about this guy who had this love for this girl and 
was 
> completely screwed over, and had given his soul up for it. And so 
> when he comes back, which we're shooting right now, he's back 
himself 
> as a young man. [We're trying] to get into his head, his 
experience, 
> and again, it's trying to reach out to the audience that we're 
going 
> after, which is today's younger audience.""

Magpie:
Today's younger audience. As opposed to all the senior citizens the 
book was originally written for. In my day, when I was 11, good 
stories hadn't been invented yet. Today's young people know that 
children's story really need to be about sex. The idea of a guy 
feeling let down by a father figure raelly has nothing to do with 
kids.

Btw, I remember one interview where the screenwriter or someone said 
that in order to modernize the movie for today's audience, they had 
to make Will American. 

Because as we all know, the United Kingdom ceased to exist somewhere 
around 1987. Modern audiences can't do Great Britain.

-m