{"id":916,"date":"2007-07-31T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2007-07-31T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T03:23:00","slug":"the-dark-is-rising-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"The Dark is Rising . . . on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the heart of the English Fen County, Pluvialis is spitting<\/a> . . . <\/p>\n

. . . chips and blood. I am crackling with furious static. Any minute now, small pieces of paper, coins and pens are going to drag themselves across the tabletop, bent and pulled towards me by the immense, bending-the-laws-of-physics fury I’m experiencing right now.<\/em><\/p>\n

She has been reading Jason Pitzl-Waters’
comments on the upcoming film version of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s set it in America?
Let’s get rid of “all the Arthurian and Pagan stuff”?
Let’s give Will Stanton a twin brother, stolen by the dark?
The Rider a love interest?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the heart of the English Fen County, Pluvialis is spitting . . . . . . chips and blood. I am crackling with furious static. Any minute now, small pieces of paper, coins and pens are going to drag themselves across the tabletop, bent and pulled towards me by the immense, bending-the-laws-of-physics fury I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[36,12],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-eM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3740,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3740","url_meta":{"origin":916,"position":0},"title":"Quick Review: “Dark of Moon”","author":"Chas S. 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