Episode Seventy-One - The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
- Author
- Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
- Published
- Tue 06 Jun 2023
- Episode Link
- https://sites.libsyn.com/290192/episode-seventy-one-the-seeker-the-dark-is-rising-2007
June is here, so you (maybe) know what that means! That's right, it's time for the start of our annual "Summer Surprise," where we let an online randomizer choose which movies from our oh-so-long F2F list we'll be covering next. First up, it's back to the land of misguided YA adaptations trying to cash in on the Harry Potter phenomenon. But this time, the source material actually pre-dates JK Rowling's works, as we examine The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, the 2007 feature adaptation of Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising Sequence" of novels from the 60s and 70s. Cooper's five-book series has stood the test of time, so why did we only get one movie, and why is it already mostly forgotten today? Listen on to find out!
