Ok, so I’ll admit I’ve never read a single word of the Susan Cooper fantasy adventure series upon which The Dark is Rising is based but from the looks of the newly released trailer, it’s a blatant copy of The Matrix.
I’m not saying the book is but the film blatanly is.
Just look at the scene where the kid is taken out of his environment and into an interrogation room where unnatural things occur and they question him about a supposed misdemeanor.
Just look at the references to this kid being “the one”. Ian McShane is playing the “Morpheus” character who guides the kid on this quest and shows him the way. His friends decide to jump to the other world to help fight off the bad guys although it probably means certain death, just like Trinity in The Matrix.
And what about the exaggerated leaps when hit?
This movie looks like a big dud to me. It looks uninteresting with the most conventional fantasy story known to man and that poor kid Gregory Smith really doesn’t look like he can act. Is this the Eragon of 2007?
The Dark is Rising is released in October from director David L. Cunningham.
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Then again The Matrix ripped off Ghost in the Shell, and copied exact scenes from Dark City. It’s like a vicious circle of plagirism, or should I say ‘homages’.
When did it become new to ripoff The Matrix? Why worry about it? Although I must admit that interrogation scene was a complete rip-off, especially since the lighting is identical to The Matrix and looks nothing like the rest of the trailer for this movie.
I figured after getting Harry Potter right so many times in a row Hollywood was LONG overdue to thoroughly butcher some other novelists’ would-be book-movie saga. Eragon wasn’t it. I actually read the book and the movie wasn’t too far off. Hard to ruin a story that was never there in the first place.
But this one…looks like Tinseltown has reverted to type and resumed screwing the proverbial pooch again.
Its like Peter Jackson and the Wachowski brothers had a threesome…
and what a waste of a good title…
Agree that there are similarities but I think rip off is a little strong. And though Eragon was mediocre at best, this looks much better than that.