with your crown beneath your wing

[dinadandelion]

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I finally read Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence a few weeks ago after I heard they were movie-fying them. (They were always "one of those books that I knew about, but never got around to reading." And the first one, Over Sea, Under Stone bored me so much the time I tried to read it that I decided that the rest of the books must be

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[henchminion]

I come bearing bad news. Walden Media, the makers of the Dark is Rising movie, have essentially declared war on the fans of the book. The screenwriter is quoted as saying " I think some of that sort of, the pre-Christian element or the Arthurian stuff isn't really in the script." They've cut the heart and soul out of the story and replaced it with a lot of pointless violence. I could cry.

[dinadandelion]

That's awful! And they did so well with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, too....

How can they cut out the Arthurian stuff? That's, like, the whole plot!
I sometimes suspect that movie people don't actually read the books they make films out of.

I did read that they've given Max a larger role... I hate it when they change characters' roles. Seriously, people, the books were written that way for a reason...