Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence has sold more than two million copies in hardcover and paperback. Now the second book in the sequence, the Newbery Honor Book The Dark Is Rising, has been adapted for the screen as a live-action film with an impressive international cast.

HERE IS THE AWARD-WINNING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM, IN A HANDSOME MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION.

Based on the award-winning novel by Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising is the first film adaptation of the author's acclaimed Dark Is Rising Sequence. The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will discovers a series of clues that lead into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will's hands.

www.darkthemovie.com

"Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative power, and the moral vision that permit her tocreate the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C. S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition." — Psychology Today

Coopers Newbery Honor-winning fantasy novel--the first in her Dark Is Rising sequence--has been adapted for the big screen by Walden Media and Mark Platt Productions. The film stars Ian McShane ("Deadwood") and Christopher Eccleston ("Doctor Who"), and is scheduled for theatrical release by 20th Century Fox on October 7.

Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence has sold more than two million

copies in hardcover and paperback. Now the second book in the sequence,

the Newbery Honor Book The Dark Is Rising, has been adapted for

the screen as a live-action film with an impressive international cast.

HERE IS THE AWARD-WINNING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM, IN A HANDSOME

MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION.

Based on the award-winning novel by Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising

is the first film adaptation of the author's acclaimed Dark Is Rising

Sequence. The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns

he is the last of a group of warriors who dedicated their lives to

fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time,

Will discovers a series of clues that lead into a showdown with forces of

unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the

world rests in Will's hands.

www.darkthemovie.com