The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) on Netflix
PG20071h 39mAdventureDramaFamily
Will Stanton, a day from his fourteenth birthday, learns he is the last of the Old Ones and the Seeker, tasked with finding six Signs. The Rider hunts those Signs too.
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Plot summary
Miss Greythorne, who owns the Manor, and her butler Merriman Lyon invite Will Stanton and his family to a Christmas party the day before his fourteenth birthday. When Will leaves the party, a figure on a white horse chases him, and four adults save him. Merriman names the figure the Rider, who says his power, the Dark, rises in five days. The four are Old Ones, warriors of the Light, and they tell Will he is the Seeker, who must find six Signs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
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- Before release, the production ran into trouble: author Susan Cooper was unhappy with how her novel had been adapted, the film's title was changed repeatedly, and advance screenings for critics were canceled.
- Director David Cunningham kept visual effects to only about 200 shots and instead relied on practical methods: a thousand real snakes shipped in from the Czech Republic were dumped on the actors, real water was used to flood a mansion set, and live birds were trained to fly at the cast.
- Cinematographer Joel Ransom had a reconstruction of a 13th-century chapel built, a set that took four months to construct, so it could fully surround the actors and let him shoot 360-degree camera sweeps to depict the story's time-travel sequences.
- Costume designer Vin Burnham wove small crystals into the outfits worn by Frances Conroy and Ian McShane so the costumes would visibly glisten on camera.
- Analysts at Box Office Prophets questioned the wide 3,141-theater release because the cost of striking prints for that many screens actually exceeded what the film earned on its opening weekend.
- The Seeker had the second-worst opening weekend ever for a film released in more than 3,000 theaters, trailing only Walden Media's own 2006 film Hoot.
