Will then proceeds to throw open the doors when he hears his parents and sister calling him only to learn that it was just the Rider who - oops - is now able to enter. At the end of the movie, he and the other Old Ones are forced to retreat into the Great Hall, where their enemy the Rider cannot enter unless invited. Here, he was made into a surprise twin brother kidnapped by the Rider, and freed by Will. Spared by the Adaptation: In the books, Thomas Stanton was the first of the Stantons' children and died three days after birth.Parental Neglect: Will's parents, particularly his father, seem pretty detached from all of their children.Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries used ones that translate to The Six Signs of the Light. Other markets got more 'descriptive' titles, e.g. In the UK, where the books are perhaps best known, the title remained The Dark Is Rising, much to Cooper's annoyance. Market-Based Title: The film was entirely retitled to plain The Seeker in the USA, arguably fittingly in light of its large divergence from the source material.Magical Seventh Son: Will is the seventh son of a seventh son, and destined to save the world from darkness.Logo Joke: The 20th Century Fox logo sequence plays out normally until the end, when the logo takes a shade of yellow and massive swirling patterns, representing the first sign, appear on both sides of the logo.It's made all the worse that none of them seem to have any other personality traits.
Especially galling to fans of the book, where the Stantons were a warm, loving family. It's taken to ridiculous extremes, especially with the twins any competent parent would have nipped that in the bud when they were children. Jerkass: All Will's siblings except his sister.As such, the screenwriter didn't actually read the book. The Stanton family, who in the books are warm, caring and British, are now dysfunctional and American Will is changed from a thoughtful, wise-for-his-age eleven-year-old to a whiny fourteen-year-old hormone-addled jerkass who's more interested in stealing his brother's girlfriend than completing his quest for the Signs, and all the Arthurian mythology is hacked out and replaced with Christian allegory. In Name Only: One reviewer joked that "They only changed one thing in the plot - everything", and it's not far wrong.Hormone-Addled Teenager: What's one of the first things fourteen-year-old Will wants to do with his powers? Get a girl.This is probably meant to signify something, but we're never told what. Hollywood Genetics: Blond Will's parents and siblings all have brown hair.
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