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#1 Forever Xena

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Posted 28 October 2006 - 15:39

New Fantasy series Rising at Walden

Posted : October 25, 2006 Writer : Clint Morris

Walden Media (“The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”) are placing all their little chickadees into a basket that they hope will hatch a few golden eggs. The studio has announced production on the first chapter in another fantasy series they’re doing. “The Dark is Rising” is based on a 5-part series by Susan Cooper.

According to Variety, Walden – who are co-financing the film with FOX – hopes the series will appeal to those that dashed to theatres to see “The Chronicles of Narnia” last Christmas.

David Cunningham (“The Path to 9/11”) will direct “Rising”, which tells of a youth who discovers at age 11 that he's a Sign Seeker, the last of a group of immortals dedicated to fighting a growing presence of dark forces. He comes to the realization that he's charged with saving the world.

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Posted 28 October 2006 - 15:50

Låter inte så originellt. Buffy för de ännu yngre...

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Posted 28 October 2006 - 15:50

Låter intressant. :)

Susan Cooper? Låter bekant... Ett namn och kolla upp.

Japp. Läste hennes 'The Boggart' i skolan. :D

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Posted 28 October 2006 - 19:12

Hennes 5 böcker i "The Dark is Rising"-serien är mycket bra. Synd bara att de på beskrivningen verkar hoppa över bok 1. Även om den inte innehåller så mycket övernaturligheter så är den en bra introduktion, även om den kanske känns lite Blyton-aktig här och var.. :P

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 15:04

Åhh, hoppas det blir bra! Jag gillar dessa böcker, mer än Narnia böckerna. :)
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 15:32

Japp. En av de bästa ungdomsfantasy-serier jag har läst. Tyvärr verkar de inte speciellt kända i Sverige, vad jag vet. Jag brukar dock rekommendera dem i "rekommendera bok"-ämnen på forums...

Första boken är den "sämsta", med väldigt lite fantasy-inslag, men det tas igen i de följande böckerna...

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Posted 06 December 2006 - 09:46

Japp. En av de bästa ungdomsfantasy-serier jag har läst. Tyvärr verkar de inte speciellt kända i Sverige, vad jag vet. Jag brukar dock rekommendera dem i "rekommendera bok"-ämnen på forums...

Första boken är den "sämsta", med väldigt lite fantasy-inslag, men det tas igen i de följande böckerna...


Vilken är den sämsta? Dark Rising? Nej, det är väl bok nr.2 som är Dark Rising eller hur? *förvirrad som vanligt*
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 10:46

Tyvärr verkar de inte speciellt kända i Sverige, vad jag vet.

Nepp, böckerna kunde behöva lite lobby-verksamhet. Jag har förgäves försökt få tag på dem på svenska till mina små änglar i flera år, men de verkar bara leva på biblioteken. :(
Tråkigt, eftersom jag tyckte mycket om dem själv som liten, och de skulle få det bra i min bokhylla...

Om filmen blir populär, kanske det blir aktuellt att ge ut igen? :)
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 11:16


Tyvärr verkar de inte speciellt kända i Sverige, vad jag vet.

Nepp, böckerna kunde behöva lite lobby-verksamhet. Jag har förgäves försökt få tag på dem på svenska till mina små änglar i flera år, men de verkar bara leva på biblioteken. :(
Tråkigt, eftersom jag tyckte mycket om dem själv som liten, och de skulle få det bra i min bokhylla...

Om filmen blir populär, kanske det blir aktuellt att ge ut igen? :)


Tips: kolla in antikvariat och Myrornas. Jag ser dem där ibland. :)
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 11:21

Tips: kolla in antikvariat och Myrornas. Jag ser dem där ibland. :)

Tack! Jag har letat (inte gett upp ännu...), men det var gulligt av dig! :)
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 13:21


Tips: kolla in antikvariat och Myrornas. Jag ser dem där ibland. :)

Tack! Jag har letat (inte gett upp ännu...), men det var gulligt av dig! :)


Har du fått tag på några delar? Jag kan ju hålla ögonen öppna och minnas dig. Jag glor ofta på aböcker. ;)
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 14:03

Har du fått tag på några delar? Jag kan ju hålla ögonen öppna och minnas dig. Jag glor ofta på aböcker. ;)

Har bara hittat första delen (pocketupplaga), vill ju helst av allt hitta andra delen eftersom Will har så trevligt födelsedatum... ;)
Jag har alla på engelska, men änglarna/småmonstren är inte riktigt så långt komna i språkutvecklingen ännu...
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 15:04

Jag köpte en omnibus på Engelska för några år sedan. Före det så lånade jag den gamla svenska versionen på biblioteket.

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Posted 06 December 2006 - 17:48

MidwinterSolstice: De verkar finnas med på Bokfynd.nu iaf.

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Posted 06 December 2006 - 18:13

XC: De finns visserligen med, men har status "Titeln har utgått ur vårt sortiment, och är slutsåld hos grossist och förlag " :(

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Posted 18 January 2007 - 21:37

En intressant grej kom fram under en intervju med Christopher Eccleston angående hans roll i Heroes:

HS: What other projects may be in your future, beyond Heroes?

CE: I shot a film in the Fall in New Orleans in which I play a New Orleanean doctor. That film is called New Orleans, Mon Amour, which is about post-Katrina, the rescue effort, and the emotional damage as well as the physical damage that was done to that great city. And I'm doing Heroes. In about two weeks I go off to Bucharest to make a film called The Dark Is Rising, which is from a series of fantasy books which were written in the Seventies.


Hela intervjun (innehåller små heroes-spoilers, kanske):

http://www.herosite.net/eccleston.htm

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 12:27

En intressant grej kom fram under en intervju med Christopher Eccleston angående hans roll i Heroes:

HS: What other projects may be in your future, beyond Heroes?

CE: I shot a film in the Fall in New Orleans in which I play a New Orleanean doctor. That film is called New Orleans, Mon Amour, which is about post-Katrina, the rescue effort, and the emotional damage as well as the physical damage that was done to that great city. And I'm doing Heroes. In about two weeks I go off to Bucharest to make a film called The Dark Is Rising, which is from a series of fantasy books which were written in the Seventies.


Hela intervjun (innehåller små heroes-spoilers, kanske):

http://www.herosite.net/eccleston.htm


Åh gud. Christopher Eccleston i The Dark Is Rising. Mums!! :D Detta var goda nyheter, tack för det! :D
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 20:31

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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.


Skit i filmen, läs böckerna istället. De har iaf engelska karaktärer.. :P

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 20:40

Snacka om att betona att de var amerikaner! :P Kändes onödigt att skriva i karaktärsbeskrivningarna att de var "amerikan".

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 20:44

Vad jag läst om filmen verkar inte speciellt nådigt. Är det verkligen sant så är det inte mycket av boken som överlever. Kanske naturligt med tanke på att ett kristet bolag (Walden) gör en bok som bygger på mycket gamla "pagan"-riter...

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 21:24

:huh: Varför köper ett kristet bolag in filmrättigheterna till böcker som innehåller paganism? :unsure: Bortsett från att förstöra dem då...

Så vi kan se fram emot Seven Heaven, fantasy versionen? :P

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 22:05

Ingen aning. Det märks väl närmare premiären... Ser inte hoppfullt ut iaf...

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 18:48

A joke among the journalists covering The Dark Is Rising set visit in Bucharest over the last couple of days was that the movie has only changed three things from the Newberry-winning novel on which it’s based: they’ve changed the lead kid’s nationality from English to American, they’ve changed the lead kid’s age from 11 to 14, and they’ve changed everything that happens in the story.


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http://www.chud.com/...e=news&id=10283

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 18:53

Det där lät inte lovande... Varför kasta ut pengar på rättigheter om man ändå kommer att skriva om allt? :unsure:

Sedan å andra sidan - jag har ju inte läst böckerna, så kanske kan det bli bra ändå. ;)

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 18:53

Ni som vill veta vad boken handlar om kan ju kika här: http://wihaz.wordpre...dark-is-rising/

Och en liten genomgång av hela bokserien finns här: http://en.wikipedia..../Dark_Is_Rising

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