17 Comments | Published by Brian Jacks on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm.
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve had a gaggle of exclusive content from the upcoming fantasy flick, “The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising.” We gave you an interview with the screenwriter, an interview with its star Gregory Smith, a series of webisodes with the “Dark Is Rising” interns, the first look at the poster, and finally an image with some crazy hidden signs in it. Well, now we have an exclusive, hot-off-the-presses clip from the film, which opens October 5. Watch it below.
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September 26th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Oh god, this is awful! The slo-mo! The acting! Darth-Max and Pseudo-Will both so completely out of character! Why, why did this production team have to get their hands on such a great book and turn into the The Sucker: the Drek is Rising?? Sadness, sadness.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
NOT WANT!!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I want to vomit. I feel insulted.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Ouch. Just… ouch.
September 27th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Are we now finally allowed to say that this film is a slap in the face to everyone who loves the books???
September 27th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Oh, Crap!
September 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
You know, I honestly did watch the clip hoping that the movie would turn out better than it sounded.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
My god thsi sucks. Ninja kicks?, Fight scenes? What the hell, I guess I need to reread the books because I didnt know the fate of the signs revolved around a bar room brawl involving Will and his ……..Brother????. This makes as much sense as having the Riders horse white….
September 27th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Having not read the book i think it looks awesome. (book readers get over it i know its hard but some movies based on books on good in their own right for ex. The Bourne series.)
September 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Well, yes, Ryan. Some movies are good in their own right. They should come up with their own names, too.
Regardless, this movie? Will not be one of them.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I adored the books as a little girl, but what in the heck have they done to them?! The stories are all rooted in Arthurian legend in the same way that Lord of the Rings was rooted in Norse and other mythology, and Will was a little English boy from Cornwall because that’s where all that stuff happened (you know, according to the story)! So why’s he American now?! And obnoxious? And (in reference to the trailer) why does he give a rip about girls? He’s only supposed to be eleven! And he doesn’t know it yet, but technically he’s not even human. I’m just gutted. This movie looks like a big fat PILE.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
… my CHILDHOOD! A little bit of it dies every time someone even *mentions* this movie.
September 29th, 2007 at 1:24 am
I’ve read the books and love them. Maybe this film, that is “INSPIERED” by the book, will be good fun.
September 29th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
oh my effin god. What the HECK were the director, producer, everyone freaking involved with this movie thinking?! I can’t believe how horrendous this is. Slow-mo? Karate fight? Evil Max? mkay. How about NOOOOO!!!
September 29th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Thanks for the warning. Now I know not to read the book first. I just started reading the seris. You saved me a lot of heart ache. I hate it when they do that to a book. It always ruins the movie for me.
September 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, these people have Susan Cooper rolling in her grave before she’s even dead.
Damn you, Walden! Just because you managed not to @#$@~ up Bridge to Terabithia doesn’t mean you can skillfully adapt! What’s next, a Goth punk “Strawberry Girl”? Ramona Quimby the psychic? Some things should just be left alone.
This series was “awesome” on it’s own before it was tampered with. Now some dumb kids will think it’s a Harry Potter ripoff.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The first clip wasn’t great, but it didn’t reveal the depths to which this has sunk. I agree that some movies may be fine even if they veer off from the original book and become a “loosely based on” version — but I also agree that this just looks bad. And really– if Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings could stay faithful to the books, be good movies AND turn people on to reading the books, why couldn’t they do that with TDIR? These books are not as well known but they are extraordinary — the right thing is to make people read the books. And they will find, if they do, that the books have nothing to do with this movie. I commiserate with my fellow TDIRsequence addicts, and my deepest condolences to Ms. Cooper.