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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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[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.