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The Seventh Son is a fantasy and adventure film directed by Sergei Bodrov, adapted by screenwriters Steven Knight and Charles Leavitt from Joseph Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice. It stars Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander, and was produced by Thomas Tull for Legendary Pictures. Newton Thomas Sigel served as director of photography, Dante Ferretti as production designer, Paul Rubell as film editor, and Marco Beltrami composed the score. Filmed in Vancouver and produced in the United States and the United Kingdom, it carried a budget of 95,000,000 and took in 114,178,613 at the box office. It runs 102 minutes, was made in English, and was released in 2014 and 2015 before later becoming available on Netflix.
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5.5John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as Master John Gregory
- Julianne Moore as Mother Malkin
- Ben Barnes as Tom Ward
- Alicia Vikander as Alice Deane
- John DeSantis as Tusk - Zanna
- Kit Harington as William "Billy" Bradley
Themes
- based on novel or book
- magic
- chosen one
- witch hunt
- dark fantasy
- evil witch
- sword and sorcery
- based on young adult novel
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sergei Bodrov
- Screenplay by
- Charles Leavitt Steven Knight
- Story by
- Matt Greenberg
- Based on
- The Spook's Apprentice , by Joseph Delaney
- Produced by
- Basil Iwanyk Thomas Tull Lionel Wigram
- Starring
- Jeff Bridges Ben Barnes Alicia Vikander Kit Harington Olivia Williams Antje Traue Djimon Hounsou Julianne Moore
- Cinematography
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Edited by
- Paul Rubell Jim Page Michael Kahn
- Music by
- Marco Beltrami
- Production companies
- Legendary Pictures Moving Picture Company Outlaw Sinema Pendle Mountain Productions Thunder Road Pictures China Film Group Beijing Skywheel Entertainment Co.
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- December 17, 2014 ( 2014-12-17 ) (France) February 6, 2015 ( 2015-02-06 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 102 minutes
- Countries
- United States, Canada, China, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $95–110 million
- Box office
- $114 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Spook's Apprentice
- Director
- Sergei Bodrov
- Cast member
- Timothy Webber
- Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Producer
- Thomas Tull
- Production company
- Legendary Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Filming location
- Vancouver
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 784978
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.seventhsonmovie.com
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- publication date
- 2014-01-01
- title
- The Seventh Son
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film editor
- Paul Rubell
- production designer
- Dante Ferretti
- after a work by
- Joseph Delaney
- box office
- 114178613
- capital cost
- 95000000
- social media followers
- 3374
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 12%
- Commons category
- Seventh Son (film)
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Encyclopedic overview
Seventh Son is a 2014 action fantasy film directed by Sergei Bodrov, and starring Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, Djimon Hounsou and Julianne Moore. It is loosely based on the 2004 novel The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. The story centers on Thomas Ward, a seventh son of a seventh son, and his adventures as the apprentice of the Spook.
After having its release date shifted numerous times, the film was released in France on December 17, 2014, and in Canada and the United States on February 6, 2015, by Universal Pictures. The film was a box office failure, received generally negative reviews from film critics and earned $114 million against a production budget of $95 million.
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