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May. 17th, 2007 08:10 pmfrom Devin Faraci's visit to the set of The Dark Is Rising:
Not even Christopher Eccleston can even fully redeem this: come on, guys, how difficult would it have been to dye his hair the proper color? "Arthurian stuff," indeed. Ptheh.
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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Screenwriter John Hodge told me they dropped all the Arthurian stuff from the film.
Not even Christopher Eccleston can even fully redeem this: come on, guys, how difficult would it have been to dye his hair the proper color? "Arthurian stuff," indeed. Ptheh.