HAHA. The Dark is rising movie again

[Eustace_Scrubb]

<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
> 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.

Eustace_Scrubb:
Or as the authors of _1066 and All That:  A Memorable History of
England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good
Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates_ (from which I initially got
my warped views of history and things British) write:  at the end of the
Great War, "America became Top Nation, and history came to a ."

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb