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The movie performed poorly at the box office, having the second-worst debut of all time for a film released in over 3,000 theaters and only grossing $3,745,315 on a $45 million budget. It also received negative reactions all around from critics, fans of the book series, [[DisownedAdaptation and even Susan Cooper herself]] for how much it disregarded the source material.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, [[spoiler: Thomas Stanton was the Stantons' first child who died soon after he was born]]. In the movie, however, [[spoiler: he's Will's twin brother who was kidnapped by the Rider when they were babies. Kinda makes you wonder how the hell he didn't realize he'd kidnapped the wrong child or why he didn't kidnap them both just to be sure]].
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, [[spoiler: Thomas Stanton was the Stantons' first child who died soon after he was born]]. In the movie, however, [[spoiler: he's Will's twin brother who was kidnapped by the Rider when they were babies. Kinda makes you wonder This leaves the viewers wondering how the hell he Rider didn't realize he'd kidnapped the wrong child or why he didn't kidnap them both just to be sure]].
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This is the same kind of problem that led to Needs Wiki Magic Love being PRLC'd and moved to Pages Needing Wiki Magic; you're not supposed to pothole these in descriptions.
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* LogoJoke: The 20th Century Fox logo sequence plays out normally until the end, when the shade of yellow changes and massive swirling patterns appear on both sides of the logo.
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* LogoJoke: The 20th Century Fox logo sequence plays out normally until the end, when the logo takes a shade of yellow changes and massive swirling patterns patterns, representing the first sign, appear on both sides of the logo.
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How To Create A Works Page: "Things not to include: quality judgements (don't say how much it sucked/how awesome it was), critical reception (that's just a specific variant of quality judgements), recommendations (don't tell us whether or not we should check it out)".
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring Creator/AlexanderLudwig and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring Creator/AlexanderLudwig and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it
It was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark IsRising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).Rising''.
It was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is
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* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Seeker'' is very loosely based on ''The Dark is Rising''.
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring [[Film/TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring [[Film/TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] Creator/AlexanderLudwig and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).
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* CaptainErsatz: The Stantons are now [[Franchise/HarryPotter the Weasleys]]. Prankster twins, AloofBigBrother, traitorous big brother, annoying sister... Check check check '''check'''!
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* CaptainErsatz: The Stantons are now [[Franchise/HarryPotter the Weasleys]].Weasleys of ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Prankster twins, AloofBigBrother, traitorous big brother, annoying sister... Check check check '''check'''!it all checks out!
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Will's brothers in the original book were loving and supportive. Here, they're complete dicks to him.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, [[spoiler: Thomas Stanton was the Stantons' first child who died soon after he was born]]. In the movie, however, [[spoiler: he's Will's twin brother who was kidnapped by the Rider when they were babies. Kinda makes you wonder how the hell he didn't realize he'd kidnapped the wrong child]].
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, [[spoiler: Thomas Stanton was the Stantons' first child who died soon after he was born]]. In the movie, however, [[spoiler: he's Will's twin brother who was kidnapped by the Rider when they were babies. Kinda makes you wonder how the hell he didn't realize he'd kidnapped the wrong child]].child or why he didn't kidnap them both just to be sure]].
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* HollywoodGenetics: Blond Will's parents and siblings are all brunettes. This is probably meant to signify something, but we're never told what.
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* HollywoodGenetics: Blond Will's parents and siblings are all brunettes.have brown hair. This is probably meant to signify something, but we're never told what.
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring [[TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).
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''The Seeker'' is a 2007 fantasy film incredibly [[InNameOnly loosely]] based on the novel ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by Creator/SusanCooper and starring [[TheHungerGames [[Film/TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. Because of its controversial changes from the book, it was released as ''The Dark is Rising'' in the UK, and in some other markets as ''The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' due to its complete lack of resemblance to the book. The screenwriter infamously claimed to have only read a few pages of the book, before getting bored and just using the back cover, referring to Cooper's novel as a "slog", and the director did not even bother reading it. Cooper was very upset and disowned the movie after seeing it (as did most fans).
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* AdaptationalNationality: This movie makes the Stantons into Americans.
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* AdaptationalNationality: This movie makes In the Stantons into Americans.book the Stanton family are British, here they are Americans who just moved to England.
