When books are translated into a film some hit the mark and some do not even come close. Young Adult Literature is usually a prime market for Hollywood, they spot out a popular series and then decide that they can profit from it. One of these series would be the Wardstone Chronicles, the very first book to be exact. In 2015, Universal Studios came out with the Seventh Son, a film adaptation of the book The Last Apprentice: The Witch’s Revenge. People who are interested in reading the book or watching the movie might be wondering if it is worth it. Well, before those individuals decide if it is worth their time they should consider the plot, the characters, and the success of both the Seventh Son and The Last Apprentice.
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While at the Spook’s house, Tom meets Alice who asks him to feed three meat cakes to Mother Malkin, a powerful witch buried in the Spook’s Garden. Tom feeds Mother Malkin two cakes while the Spook is away on business and she gains enough power to escape. Tom travels to his family farm to figure out what to do from there when he discovers that the pig butcher has been possessed by Mother Malkin. Remembering his training, Tom throws salt and iron at the witch and she slithers out of the man into the pig’s pen where she gets eaten by the pigs, effectively killing her. Tom is shaken but realizes that he has so much more to learn and so he returns to the Spook’s house to continue his teachings against the dark. Meanwhile, the Seventh Son’s plot starts off with John Gregory’s ex-lover, Mother Malkin, the Queen of Witches escaping from her cage and successfully killing Gregory’s apprentice. With the impending blood moon near, John has to find a new apprentice to defeat her before the end …show more content…
It received an average rating of four out of five on Goodreads. On Common Sense Media, Parents rave about how they are surprisingly intrigued by the book and can’t stop reading. Also in 2011, the book won the Hampshire Book Award. The first book did well enough that the author, Joseph Delaney, was able to write an entire series to accompany it. It became popular amongst young fantasy readers and that caught the attention of Universal Studios resulting in the Seventh Son. Unfortunately, the movie did not prosper as well as the book did. To clarify, when the Seventh Son came across movie theater screens, it only had two other competitors it’s opening weekend. Jupiter Ascending and The SpongeBob Movie 2, both movies that received fairly low scores, and still the Seventh Son bombed. Only making seven million dollars that weekend which does not sound awful until the ninety-five million budget of the movie is considered. On top of not breaking any box office records, it also received rather poor reviews from critics and average moviegoers alike. Officially it sports a thirteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a five point five out of ten on IMDB. The movie is unlikely to yield any sequels and instead it is destined to fade into the long list of unprosperous movies that were once beloved book
The book’s plot begins …show more content…
While at the Spook’s house, Tom meets Alice who asks him to feed three meat cakes to Mother Malkin, a powerful witch buried in the Spook’s Garden. Tom feeds Mother Malkin two cakes while the Spook is away on business and she gains enough power to escape. Tom travels to his family farm to figure out what to do from there when he discovers that the pig butcher has been possessed by Mother Malkin. Remembering his training, Tom throws salt and iron at the witch and she slithers out of the man into the pig’s pen where she gets eaten by the pigs, effectively killing her. Tom is shaken but realizes that he has so much more to learn and so he returns to the Spook’s house to continue his teachings against the dark. Meanwhile, the Seventh Son’s plot starts off with John Gregory’s ex-lover, Mother Malkin, the Queen of Witches escaping from her cage and successfully killing Gregory’s apprentice. With the impending blood moon near, John has to find a new apprentice to defeat her before the end …show more content…
It received an average rating of four out of five on Goodreads. On Common Sense Media, Parents rave about how they are surprisingly intrigued by the book and can’t stop reading. Also in 2011, the book won the Hampshire Book Award. The first book did well enough that the author, Joseph Delaney, was able to write an entire series to accompany it. It became popular amongst young fantasy readers and that caught the attention of Universal Studios resulting in the Seventh Son. Unfortunately, the movie did not prosper as well as the book did. To clarify, when the Seventh Son came across movie theater screens, it only had two other competitors it’s opening weekend. Jupiter Ascending and The SpongeBob Movie 2, both movies that received fairly low scores, and still the Seventh Son bombed. Only making seven million dollars that weekend which does not sound awful until the ninety-five million budget of the movie is considered. On top of not breaking any box office records, it also received rather poor reviews from critics and average moviegoers alike. Officially it sports a thirteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a five point five out of ten on IMDB. The movie is unlikely to yield any sequels and instead it is destined to fade into the long list of unprosperous movies that were once beloved book