![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown to many of them the original source material predated the Boy Who Lived by at least two decades, and despite superficial similarities in the central protagonist arc, they couldn’t be any more different. The film was rightly panned, both by critics and fans of the original novel The Dark is Rising for a number of reasons, while casual fantasy fans dismissed it as a generic Harry Potter knock off. Naturally with the success of the Harry Potter franchise both as a book and a film, studios rushed to try to crank out the next series just like it, leading to lackluster adaptations of young adult fantasy novels such as The Golden Compass, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and a forgotten film known as The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. Every major franchise geared towards Young Adults seems to dabble in this aspect of the heroic monomyth, including Star Wars, Spider-Man, Harry Potter, and The Matrix. ![]() ![]() Nowadays the “Chosen One” narrative has become something of a literary cliché. ![]()
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