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skygiantsOkay, so this casting call for 'The Dark Is Rising' makes it look like the film is going to be painful beyond all measure.
ETA: It's about halfway down the page, and I can't figure out how to link directly to it. But the text is (Romania) - Send photograph & resumes ASAP to: Details Are only Available By Subscription.. Title: THE DARK IS RISING, Feature Film. EXEC PROD, Ron Schmidt; PROD, Marc Platt; DIR, David L. Cunningham; SCR, John Hodge. Shoot Dates: February, 2007 (in Romania). STORY: The film is about Will Stanton, who discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is the last of the "Old Ones," a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark and he must undertake a difficult journey to defeat the evil powers that threaten the land. Breakdown-- Will Stanton: 13. Will is an American who lives in England with his family. Will is bullied and/or ignored by his older brothers, and Will is gloomily convinced that he's doomed to be a bookish, gawky oddball at the bottom of the pecking order. However, he is actually an innately cool kid who has not yet grown into his coolness; Professor John Stanton: 45-55. Will's father. Professor Stanton is an American physicist and college professor and he's paid a price for it. He is emotionally cool, authoritative and very remote from his children; The Rider: 30-40 years old man with icy malevolence who is masquerading as a simple village doctor when in fact he is an agent of Evil; Mrs. Mary Stanton: 40-50. She is the American mother of the Stanton six children. She works hard at protecting her husband and her family. She similar to her husband is not emotionally available to her kids and is very distant; Gwen Stanton: Will's younger sister, Gwen is an American, neat, upright girl of about 8 or 9. Unlike her brothers, who treat Will with amiable contempt, Gwen looks up to Will, loves him and dotes on him; Max Stanton: 19 or 20, an edgy young man with piercings and tattoos. Will's older brother. Max is the American, bohemian of the family. He is always inclined to question his father's authority; James Stanton: 17. Will's older American brother. James is mature, muscular and good looking, the object of admiring eyes. Busily looking for a girlfriend, James barely interacts with Will - especially when Maggie Barnes becomes the object of his affection; Robin Stanton & Paul Stanton: 15, Male. A pair of grungy American adolescents, Robin and Paul are identical or fraternal twin brothers, and they're still at the "horseplay" stage of development. Always ready to tease Will about his bookish ways, always willing to reinforce his fears of being a gawky oddball, Robin and Paul tease and bully and sometimes blow off Will. (Posted: November 2, 2006)
That being said? The description of James Stanton just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh. I may in fact have to see the finished film just for that.
ETA: It's about halfway down the page, and I can't figure out how to link directly to it. But the text is (Romania) - Send photograph & resumes ASAP to: Details Are only Available By Subscription.. Title: THE DARK IS RISING, Feature Film. EXEC PROD, Ron Schmidt; PROD, Marc Platt; DIR, David L. Cunningham; SCR, John Hodge. Shoot Dates: February, 2007 (in Romania). STORY: The film is about Will Stanton, who discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is the last of the "Old Ones," a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark and he must undertake a difficult journey to defeat the evil powers that threaten the land. Breakdown-- Will Stanton: 13. Will is an American who lives in England with his family. Will is bullied and/or ignored by his older brothers, and Will is gloomily convinced that he's doomed to be a bookish, gawky oddball at the bottom of the pecking order. However, he is actually an innately cool kid who has not yet grown into his coolness; Professor John Stanton: 45-55. Will's father. Professor Stanton is an American physicist and college professor and he's paid a price for it. He is emotionally cool, authoritative and very remote from his children; The Rider: 30-40 years old man with icy malevolence who is masquerading as a simple village doctor when in fact he is an agent of Evil; Mrs. Mary Stanton: 40-50. She is the American mother of the Stanton six children. She works hard at protecting her husband and her family. She similar to her husband is not emotionally available to her kids and is very distant; Gwen Stanton: Will's younger sister, Gwen is an American, neat, upright girl of about 8 or 9. Unlike her brothers, who treat Will with amiable contempt, Gwen looks up to Will, loves him and dotes on him; Max Stanton: 19 or 20, an edgy young man with piercings and tattoos. Will's older brother. Max is the American, bohemian of the family. He is always inclined to question his father's authority; James Stanton: 17. Will's older American brother. James is mature, muscular and good looking, the object of admiring eyes. Busily looking for a girlfriend, James barely interacts with Will - especially when Maggie Barnes becomes the object of his affection; Robin Stanton & Paul Stanton: 15, Male. A pair of grungy American adolescents, Robin and Paul are identical or fraternal twin brothers, and they're still at the "horseplay" stage of development. Always ready to tease Will about his bookish ways, always willing to reinforce his fears of being a gawky oddball, Robin and Paul tease and bully and sometimes blow off Will. (Posted: November 2, 2006)
That being said? The description of James Stanton just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh. I may in fact have to see the finished film just for that.
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 10:34 pm (UTC)Actually, don't see it. But you know what I mean.
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:36 pm (UTC)Apparently Tom Clancy (author of Hunt for Red October and various others) has been quoted as saying "Selling your book to Hollywood is like giving your daughter to a pimp."
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 10:36 pm (UTC)So, are you going to go see it?
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:37 pm (UTC)I should not give them my money. I know this. But it will at least be entertaining, in an OH GOD OH GOD kind of way!
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:38 pm (UTC)(Which, it looks like they followed the book as closely as they are planning to here. *cries*)
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:40 pm (UTC)Though at least with that I did not have the same obsessive love for the book as a child that I did for DiR - I read it and went "but so sad!" and fled to read something more cheerful.
Like . . . DiR. Um, possibly I had strange angstlevel tolerances as a child.
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 10:51 pm (UTC)Also the fact that if there's going to be angst, the least they could do is give you some shiny magic sparkles to balance it out.
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 10:56 pm (UTC). . . alternately, my stomach is strong and yours is weak.
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Date: 2007-01-12 02:59 am (UTC)I will join that pact.
With all my heart.