![]() ![]() The witch is Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore, reunited with Bridges after The Big Lebowski), who can, apparently, possess people like a demonic spirit, literally suck out their life energy, disappear into a cloud of smoke, and morph into a towering, flying, fire-breathing dragon. ![]() In the film’s opening scene, his boozing session is interrupted by apprentice Billy, who needs his assistance in dealing with a witch who has possessed a young girl (already, shades of Season of the Witch…) Billy is played by Kit Harington, who fans may be surprised to see depart the film rather quickly of course, he was cast here in 2011, before his role as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones made him a star. ![]() His performance here is indescribable: hidden beneath a monk’s hood, with a wispy white handlebar mustache and goatee, he scowls at his co-stars with a Lebowski-like California twang that seems to have come from another movie entirely. The film won’t open in the US until February 2015 it will see release in most Asian and European markets before that date, in what is likely a move to recoup some of the $100 million budget before too much negative word spreads.īridges plays Master Gregory, a witch-hunting “spook” who tracks down his targets with rope netting, metal cages, and a Gandalf-like wizard’s staff. In terms of overall quality, the end results are strikingly similar. This is the third in a worrying series of witch hunting movies to hit in January over the past few years, following 2012’s Season of the Witch and 2014’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. That was pushed back six months, then another six months, and then a full year… Production on Seventh Son began nearly three years ago the film was originally scheduled for release in February, 2013. Fans of the source material beware: rather than “based on”, the film is credited as “inspired by” the novel The Spook’s Apprentice, the first in Joseph Delaney’s series of popular young adult novels, currently at number 13. ![]()
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