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[amelia_petkova]

First of all, Wales was great. Details will be posted after I´m caught up with my paper journal.

There´s been more casting done for The Dark is Rising . Knee-jerk reaction: They cast Christopher Eccleston as the Black Rider ?!?! Having watched a season of Doctor Who , I can´t at all imagine him as the long red-haired agent of the Dark. I might not be able to see this movie.

(No opinions yet on Merriman and Will, as I haven´t seen any of their movies.)

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[hasufin.livejournal.com]

He was good as the army commander in 28 Days Later. He's a more versatile actor than is generally believed.

Though, yeah, when my GF and I saw it (after having watched some of the new Dr Who) we were saying "The doctor is trying to save humans from the plague?!"




Hey, is that what they're having you do now? Italicize movie and TV series titles? When I was in HS those would go in quotation marks.

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

I´m willing to accept the "versatile actor" part; the trouble is, in TDiR books the Dark Rider is very clearly physically described and Eccleston´s Doctor is nothing like that. I think that I myself would not be able to visualize him differently.

As to the second thing: in LJ I´m just putting all titles in italics to make things easier.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

Ah.

As a friend of mine said regarding the casting of Lusifer in the movie "Constantine":
"Note to DC/Vertigo, if you want to use a character from the existing universe, make sure the character looks like Vertigo standard. I didn't need a sweaty, shifty looking Italian fatass playing a part I traditionally reserve for a European bishounen."





I guess that's fair. Online has its own grammar. I suspect linguists will clue in to this fact, oh, sometime in the 23rd century. Maybe 23th. They still haven't accepted use of "their" as a gender-neutral non-possessive pronoun, after all.