The Dark is Rising

[jacquez]

When the Dark comes Rising
Six shall turn it back
Three from the circle
Three from the track...

SO! I had heard that Christopher Eccleston (aka The Ninth Doctor) had been cast in TDiR, but no info whatsoever on who he'd been cast AS. My two guesses were: Merriman, or the Black Rider.

Turns out it's the Black RiderWhich was my second choice -- I

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[amergina]

*falls over twitching*

I don't think my brain can comprehend a Dark is Rising movie.

But Eccleston as the Rider... oooooh.

[jacquez]

Yeah, I mean, I can't NOT see it! I'm just nervous about the Max thing....

[mecurtin]

We all feel this project is *dooooooomed*. The Distant FoF is incensed. I, too, had assumed Eccleston would be Merriman -- have they cast anyone yet?

[jacquez]

Ian McShane.

[mecurtin]

seems OK, but since AFAIK they're making the whole family *Americans* who don't *understand* Will and he wants to be *popular* . . . dooooooooooooooomed.

[amergina]

erk!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........

[amergina]

From the wiki on the DiR:

Max Stanton: Max is the second oldest of the Stanton children. He is tall with long, dark hair (which Will and James claim makes him look like a girl) and is a very good artist. He has a sweetheart, Deb, from his London art school. (She has 'blonde-tresses' and sends him enormous letters in blue envelopes daily.)

So. I can almost grock the whole tattos and peircings, as that seems to be the modern version of the hippy artist.

[jacquez]

Yeah, yeah, but -- I'm more tweaked about the challenging the father's authority, honestly. What did Mr. Stanton ever tell them to do? Hang up their Christmas stockings? Feed the chickens?

[amergina]

yeah, that's true. As I recall ('cause it has been a while since I read the books) the family was pretty happy and loving. I don't really remember anyone questioning the parents at all.

[thefourthvine]

No, no, Max really did exist in the books. He was the art student older brother, younger than Stephen, older than everyone else. He had long hair, which I think could be roughly translated in modern terms as piercings and such. Doesn't matter, though. Based on the casting notices I read a while back - I have since avoided all discussion of the movie, since it was hurting my soul - they are obviously destroying one of my favorite books ever. Will's family is his cornerstone, what keeps him human even when he becomes an Old One, and taking that element away - arrrg. But, no, it's all "rebellion" and "they don't understaaaaaaand him."

*growls*

*weeps*

[jacquez]

No, no, I wasn't saying Max didn't exist, I was saying they took the character with so little personality that I didn't remember his name and transplanted another personality entirely into him.

[jacquez]

Also -- re: Will's family -- first off, for me, I loved that he had such a close relationship with his sibs -- I'm the "stephen" of 7 kids, see, and my grandmother was always "oh, [y] must hate [x] for doing well" but NO, we were raised really close and not that we didn't tease and torment one another, but we loved and supported each other first, and of course [y] was always proud and pleased about what [x] was doing and bragged on them to their friends and -- so, for me, Will being part of a large, caring mess of sibs was a big draw to the books in the first place.

And...the other. Yes. A lot of Will's groundedness and surity as an Old One is not based on it being "cool"; it's based in his grounded (grounding) family life, which raised a secure and happy child. (Can you imagine an Old One raised the way the casting call describes? GAH. Can you imagine the other Old Ones letting that happen? Hell no! They'd have that kid adopted and raised up proper in a heartbeat