Soon to be a major motion picture, Seventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, Djimon Hounsou and Julianne Moore as Mother Malkin. Will Tom survive to carry on his master’s battle? Will he be the Last Apprentice? Will Tom learn what they could not? Can he trust anyone, even his one true love? He will find out-and soon, for the dark is getting powerful, and the Spook’s time has come. Now he needs an apprentice-Tom Ward, who is the seventh son of a seventh son. Only the Spook has the knowledge and skill to face ghosts, bind witches, and bargain with boggarts. This volume includes Book 1, Revenge of the Witch, and Book 2, Curse of the Bane, of the Last Apprentice series.
Get SEVENTH SON and read the first two books! (There’s like 13 in the series, so you’ll still have a ways to go to complete the series!)
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Haven’t started The Last Apprentice series yet? As seventh son of a seventh son, Tom Ward has the abilities to fight all manner of evil creatures, including massive boggarts! In the video below, Ben Barnes (playing Tom Ward) wears some kind of insane, metal, hula hoop harness thingy while he battles a boggart. It’s always fascinating to go “behind the curtain” and see what really goes in to creating an amazing, CGI-heavy scene from a live action film! Thanks to It’s Art for posting these videos!
Seventh Son is showing at the cinemas now.There’s a lot of magic that goes in to making a movie, so when we stumbled across this behind the scenes video for the SEVENTH SON movie (in theaters February 6th and based on the books by Joseph Delaney), we just had to share it. Neither seemed to really give a damn.Įven though Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles (of which Spook’s Apprentice was the first in the series) currently has 12 books, it’s highly unlikely that Seventh Son will be anything other than a one-off. Bridges’ portrayal of the Spook is a combination of the Dude, Rooster Cogburn and Bane (!) and Moore virtually phones the performance in. One hopes the paychecks were satisfying for Bridges and Moore as it seems inconceivable that they would want to be involved in a turkey like this. Basically, the producers removed everything that was intriguing about the book to make a watered-down fantasy movie that is closer in tone to similar flops like Eragon and The Scorpion King.
In the film, Ward is a good looking young man ( Prince Caspian‘s Ben Barnes) and has no such special ability. Sounds interesting, right? Well, the producers made sure it had no similarity to the core premise whatsoever. Being the seventh son of a seventh son and Ward has the ability to see ghosts and fight other supernatural beings, and thus his parents have apprenticed him to the Spook. A Spook travels the county fighting troublesome creatures such as boggarts, ghosts, ghasts and witches for the people who need these things gone. Seventh Son is loosely based on Joseph Delaney’s dark fantasy novel, The Spook’s Apprentice which concerned 12 year old Thomas Ward and his adventures as the apprentice of the Spook.
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Ironically, the very elements that made the original books popular are usually the first things to be changed in a movie adaptation, leaving the film an empty husk, full of cliches and tropes. Generally speaking, fantasy movie adaptations do not perform well at the box office, the Lord of the Rings/ Hobbit and Harry Potter films, notwithstanding. Directed by Sergei Bodrov Starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore.
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