A soldier is offended by Gregory’s callous behavior, and tries to intervene, but even drunk Gregory is a badass fighter and completely humiliates the soldier. Because Gregory is a drunken asshat he ignores his apprentice, and continues to drink. Bradley ( Kit Harrington), who informs his master that a young girl is possessed and needs their help. We flash forward a couple of decades to find Master Gregory getting drunk at a local tavern, but his libations are interrupted by his apprentice Mr.
“ You’ll change everything else from the book, but not that?” It is important to note that both the movie and the North American release of the book The Spook’s Apprentice changed the title because of the derogatory historical nature of the word “spook” knowing it would not fly on this side of the pond, but for some reason the filmmakers decided to keep the name in the script which resulted in me cringing every time someone called Jeff Bridges a spook. The film opens with Master Gregory ( Jeff Bridges), a knight of the order of Spooks, imprisoning the evil witch Mother Malkin ( Julianne Moore) inside a nasty pit. This movie is based on “ The Spook’s Apprentice” by English author Joseph Delaney, and it’s the first part of “ The Wardstone Chronicles” and aside from name dropping of characters from the book this movie bears little resemblance to the source material. Do you need to actually follow the source material? Of course not, because getting the fans of the books pissed off at you is half the fun.
The Seventh Son is the bi-product of the success of the Harry Potter films and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as studios scrambled to find a new successful franchise, and how does one go about making a new fantasy film franchise? Well the first thing you need is a popular book series, one that has enough entries to ensure several films.
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