While The Last Apprentice may not hold the same blockbuster status as YA franchises such as The Hunger Games, Virginia Duncan, v-p and publisher of Greenwillow, told PW that the books have held strong, steady appeal for an audience of male and female readers, saying, “These books have many invested fans and have inspired a lot of fan fiction, art, and video. The Universal Pictures film is directed by Sergei Bodrov.
Ben Barnes stars as Tom Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, who possesses mystical powers and apprentices with Master Gregory in order to fight the forces of darkness and defeat Mother Malkin. The film features an all-star cast, including Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory, a shadowy figure who wards off supernatural beings, and Julianne Moore as the powerful witch queen Mother Malkin. Then, following a split between Legendary Pictures and Warner Brothers, the film was delayed again, not premiering in Europe until December 2014. Yet, due to post-production schedule changes, its release was moved to October 18, 2013. as The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Greenwillow in 2006), was originally slated to hit theatres on February 15, 2013. The movie, which is based on the first book in the series (published by the U.K.’s Bodley Head in 2003 as The Spook’s Apprentice and in the U.S. For American fans of Joseph Delaney’s supernatural fantasy series, The Last Apprentice, the February 6 release of Seventh Son has been a very long time coming.
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