Seventh Son is set to be directed by Sergei Bodrov, whose Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan is (in my opinion) a pretty entertaining historical epic that features one of the more impressive climactic cinematic battle sequences - complete with hundreds of actual extras on horseback. wants to appeal more to the young adult crowd by casting 24-year-old Claflin in the part - not to mention, allow for more romantic tension between him and Vikander onscreen. The character Tom Ward was 13-years-old in 'Spook's Apprentice', but it seems Warner Bros.

Moore will appear in Seventh Son as Mother Malkin, the world's most evil sorceress and a relative of Alice (Vikander), a young woman with her own supernatural abilities who befriends Tom.Ĭlaflin opposite Astrid Berges-Frisbey in 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4'.Ĭlaflin will be more of a name after he appears in this summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, essentially playing the 'noble young man' role that Orlando Bloom occupied in the previous Pirates adventures. Young Tom is trained in the arts of exorcism and warfare against evil spirits - boggarts, witches, and other sinister creatures - by Master Gregory (Bridges), a cloaked old man often referred to as 'The Spook'. Seventh Son takes place in an imaginative version of the 17th century English countryside, and revolves around Tom Ward (Claflin), the seventh son of a seventh son who is capable of detecting dark supernatural forces.

The film seems more likely to achieve Percy Jackson levels of success than anything else, but the involvement of talents like Bridges and Moore should help in that regard. Variety is reporting that Claflin and Vikander emerged as the favorites amongst the dozen or so young stars that tested for Seventh Son, which could be the first in a new young-people-training-in-the-magical-arts fantasy series from Warner Bros.

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