History Film / SeventhSon2015

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:It seems that the most powerful Witches have Draconic alternate forms. Mother Malkin can become [[http://img05.deviantart.net/f32c/i/2015/075/4/d/mother_malkin_dragon___seventh_son_concept_art___by_ubermonster-d8m1282.jpg a wyvern-like creature with a disturbingly human face,]] Bony Lizzie can change into [[http://www.legendary.com/uploads/films/seventh-son/concept-art/monster_1.jpg a creature that seems to combine the traits of a golden dragon and a reptilian hawk,]] and Radu the Assassin can morph into [[http://www.itsartmag.com/features/itsart/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seventh-son.jpg a horrifying draconic beast with four arms and giant axe blades coming out of his wrists.]] Even Strix the Warlock has a forked tongue and reptilian agility.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGirl: While Alice does have some AdaptationalVillainy going on in this film, the degree to which she betrays him differs significantly in terms of film versus book. Because the film goes in a completely different direction than the book and basically turns into a StillbornFranchise after one movie, Alice does not end up hurting Tom in arguably the ''worst'' possible way like she did in the books when [[spoiler: she left Tom and began sleeping with the dark wizard Lukrasta to really drive the knife into his heart]]. When all is said and done, she and Tom end things on a good note in the film without the anguish that she would cause him in the books.

* WitchSpecies: In the film, witches are not the same species as humans, although they look the same and can have children with them.

''Seventh Son'' is a 2015 action-fantasy film directed by Sergei Bodrov and starring Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/JulianneMoore, and Creator/BenBarnes. It is loosely based on the young adult fantasy novel series ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles''. It follows the "spook" Master Gregory, a knight who hunts dark magic users and evil creatures, and his new apprentice Tom (the titular seventh son) as they battle a powerful witch queen, Mother Malkin.

* AdaptationTitleChange: ''Seventh Son'' is the adaptation of ''The Wardstone Chronicles''.

* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Bony Lizzie looks to be about the same age as her daughter Alice (the actresses are only seven years apart). No doubt she remains physically young due to magic.

''Seventh Son'' is a 2015 action-fantasy film directed by Sergei Bodrov and starring Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/JulianneMoore, and Ben Barnes. It is loosely based on the young adult fantasy novel series ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles''. It follows the "spook" Master Gregory, a knight who hunts dark magic users and evil creatures, and his new apprentice Tom (the titular seventh son) as they battle a powerful witch queen, Mother Malkin.

* SkinnyDipping: Alice does this on a pond, but little about her is shown.

* NeverTrustATrailer: A TV commercial focused on Gregory lecturing Tom about how witches are destructive monsters which must be killed, only for it to funnily cut to the gorgeus Alice looking seductively at him while skinny dipping, thus implying that at least some of the film's witches would be TheVamp or try to use feminine wiles against the spooks. Nothing of this is even suggested in the film proper, and its only two intimate contacts between witches and Spooks (one in the present and the other in the past) are both of a genuine DatingCatwoman nature.

** In the book, Tusk was Mother Malkin's deformed ''son'' and TheBrute to Bony Lizzie. In the movie, he works for Gregory and pretty much assumes the BattleButler of the Boggart from the book.
** Tom's mother to an extend. In the film she's reluctant to see her son leaving to become a Spook, while in the book, she's the one who forced him to be one and gets angry when Tom announces he doesn't want to continue the apprenticeship. [[spoiler:Her backstory is also more sympathetic. In the book, she was the mother of all Lamias who preyed on children before turning good, while in the film she was just a good witch]].

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: John Gregory.

It has no relation to the [[Literature/SeventhSon trilogy of science fiction novels with the same title]], or the first novel of the ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' series.

** In the Book, [[spoiler:Gregory dies in a battle before Tom complete his training]], unlike the movie where [[spoiler:he just leaves Chippenden for a personal quest]].

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* AdaptationalVillainy:
** In the book, Alice ''does'' start out on the side of evil and walk on a line between the two sides over the course of the series, but it's made clear very soon she is ''not'' happy with her condition and she is fairly fast to join Tom, even implying she was in fact planning to leave of her own even before meeting him. In the movie, she completely willingly serves as a mole for her mother and Malkin, and while her feelings for Tom are genuine she still betrays him and only switches sides after [[spoiler:her mother apparently left Tom to die]].
** John Gregory is more anti heroic in the film where he's an alcoholic, more unpleasant, violent and abusive toward Tom. [[spoiler:He also tries to kill Alice without proof that she had bad intentions.]]

''Seventh Son'' is a 2015 action-fantasy film directed by Sergei Bodrov and starring Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/JulianneMoore, and Creator/BenBarnes. It is loosely based on the young adult fantasy novel series ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles''. It follows the "spook" Master Gregory, a knight who hunts dark magic users and evil creatures, and his new apprentice Tom (the titular seventh son) as they battle a powerful witch queen, Mother Malkin.