black_faery has just posted a nasty shock. She recently went to the cinema, and while there, saw the huge hoardings for
The Dark Is Rising, allegedly based on Susan Cooper's amazing series.
Unlike me, she visited IMDB to find out more about it. And has now
reported back on what she found.
It looks like it's been butchered - it's been updated to the modern era, some characters are now American (presumably to get the dollar involved) and they appear to have made some substantial changes to the plot*.
* Suffice to say, for those who know the books: They've cut out The Walker. That should tell you a vast chunk of what you didn't want to know.Dear Hollywood, if you can't do a decent job of making a great book into a good film, please don't run it through the shredder in the dash for a bit of the Harry Potter-inspired cash. Now sod off.
I've not seen the
Earthsea film they made a couple of years ago, for much the same reason of fear.