Susan Cooper

[Bert Olton]

Phillip Anschutz's Walden Media has bought film rights to Susan

Cooper's five-book The Dark is Rising Sequence fantasy-adventure series
and set it up with Marc Platt ("Legally Blonde" films).

Variety says the first feature in the series will be based on the

second book, "The Dark is Rising," centering on a modern-day boy who
learns on his 11th birthday that he's the Sign Seeker -- the last of a
group of immortals who have dedicated their lives to fighting forces of
the Dark. As he uncovers a series of clues, some dating back to biblical
times, the boy also discovers the future of the world rests in his hands.

"The Dark is Rising" was first published in 1973. The other books in

the series are "Over Sea, Under Stone," "Greenwitch," "The Grey King"
and "Silver on the Tree."

Bert Olton

[PAUL GADZIKOWSKI]

Bert Olton <***@redsuspenders.com> wrote:
: > Variety says the first feature in the series will be based on the
: second book, "The Dark is Rising," centering on a modern-day boy who
: learns on his 11th birthday that he's the Sign Seeker

Watch the masses cry foul because it's a Harry Potter ripoff.

: > "The Dark is Rising" was first published in 1973.

You know that, and I know that, but still.


Paul Gadzikowski, ***@iglou.com since 1995
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[solitaire]

Post by Bert Olton

Phillip Anschutz's Walden Media has bought film rights to Susan

Cooper's five-book The Dark is Rising Sequence fantasy-adventure series
and set it up with Marc Platt ("Legally Blonde" films).

Variety says the first feature in the series will be based on the

second book, "The Dark is Rising," centering on a modern-day boy who
learns on his 11th birthday that he's the Sign Seeker -- the last of a
group of immortals who have dedicated their lives to fighting forces of
the Dark. As he uncovers a series of clues, some dating back to biblical
times, the boy also discovers the future of the world rests in his hands.

"The Dark is Rising" was first published in 1973. The other books in

the series are "Over Sea, Under Stone," "Greenwitch," "The Grey King"
and "Silver on the Tree."
Bert Olton

One more time, not on-topic for ALT.LEGEND.KING-ARTHUR.

Either post on-topic or stay the f*ck out of the newsgroup, asshole.

[Heather Rose Jones]

Post by solitaire

Post by Bert Olton

Phillip Anschutz's Walden Media has bought film rights to Susan

Cooper's five-book The Dark is Rising Sequence fantasy-adventure
series and set it up with Marc Platt ("Legally Blonde" films).

Variety says the first feature in the series will be based on the

second book, "The Dark is Rising," centering on a modern-day boy who
learns on his 11th birthday that he's the Sign Seeker -- the last of a
group of immortals who have dedicated their lives to fighting forces
of the Dark. As he uncovers a series of clues, some dating back to
biblical times, the boy also discovers the future of the world rests
in his hands.

"The Dark is Rising" was first published in 1973. The other books

in the series are "Over Sea, Under Stone," "Greenwitch," "The Grey
King" and "Silver on the Tree."
Bert Olton

One more time, not on-topic for ALT.LEGEND.KING-ARTHUR.
Either post on-topic or stay the f*ck out of the newsgroup, asshole.

Um ... Susan Cooper's series is absolutely riddled through
with Arthurian material, both explicit and more subtle. I
believe "The Grey King" is the most overt.

Heather

[Malcolm Martin]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 22:06:54 GMT, solitaire <***@verizon.net> wrote
the following words:

<snip>

Post by solitaire
One more time, not on-topic for ALT.LEGEND.KING-ARTHUR.

<snip>

<"The Dark is Rising," centering on a modern-day boy who
learns on his 11th birthday that he's the Sign Seeker -- the last of a
group of immortals who have dedicated their lives to fighting forces of
the Dark. As he uncovers a series of clues, some dating back to biblical
times, the boy also discovers the future of the world rests in his hands>

Sounds Arthurian to me - or is it that this one is only 11 and he should
have been 15 to be truly Arthurian?

Kind regards

Malcolm Martin
London, UK