Good v. Evil, Rock v. Spear, Naughty v. Nice.
Appearing before Harry yesterday, another spate of new trailers: Al Swearingen (Ian McShane) and Ruth Fisher (Frances Conroy) join forces to help a young boy defeat the insidious Evil that is Christopher Eccleston in the first preview for The Dark is Rising (from the fantasy series by Susan Cooper, which I borrowed from the library around the age of 12 and can barely remember, other than the "seventh son of a seventh son" schtick.) Independence Day director Roland Emmerich stages his own quest for fire (among other nouns) in the new teaser for 10,000 B.C., starring Stephen Strait, Camilla Belle, and Omar Sharif. And Santa's deadbeat brother (Vince Vaughn) comes home to screw up the family operation in the trailer for the christmas comedy Fred Claus, also starring Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Spacey, Elizabeth Banks, and Rachel Weisz. (The joke mainly seems to be that Vaughn is tall and elves are short, but that is a pretty good cast.)
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OHDEARGOD. I love "The Dark is Rising," and that's the WORST trailer I could possibly have imagined for it. That's the worst possible Will, the worst possible Merriman, the worst EVERYTHING. Who's that kid going around with him? He's not in the story! Who's the chick? She's not in the story! And besides, the whole goddamn series is set in England. It's about KING ARTHUR, for God's sake! I'm getting really worked up over this.
Geeze, my exact reaction, Kris. "OHDEARGOD, they totally and monumentally ruined it!" is the only way anyone who loved the books will feel about this trailer. I am supremely disappointed in pretty much the entire thing (although the Rider looked OK, I guess, but where was the snow?). Merry is so wrong it almost made me gag.
You couldn't pay me enough to go see this!!! It's like someone read the 2-page Cliff Notes version of the story and decided to fill in the rest with their own Hollywood-addled imagination. I wonder how Susan Cooper feels about having her entire universe raped for quick profit?