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Yesterday Ben participated in the Legendary Pictures panel at Comic-Con in San Diego where he spoke a bit about his upcoming film, The Seventh Son. Check out 108 exclusive photos from the panel in our gallery, thanks to Deb!

You can also view some concept art for the film here, thanks to Cinema Blend.

Maiamai said:

Better late then never, but many thanks to Steph and JM.
Impressively quick on the uptake as always :o)

July 25th, 2011

Maiamai said:

Dear FL – post-whoring is one of your better traits!! ;o)

July 25th, 2011

maggie-anne said:

nice :) haha i love the surprised expression – my guess is he’d just noticed jeff’s shirt (!)

July 25th, 2011

stefi said:

BEN , IS MORE THAN GORGEOUS.

July 28th, 2011

jane said:

Hallo from Russia. I saw view from Comic Con and I think Ben have happy ticket in his life. And his life is going with Russian people (Chadov, Bodrov). I am very happy for Ben!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 31st, 2011

Hana said:

Hello B-people,

I´ve checked Ben´s stage work little bit. We already know about his stage project called “The Dreaming” from 2001 and I found more info about it here
http://www.howardgoodall.co.uk/musicals/thedreaming.htm

and here is the script
http://www.howardgoodall.co.uk/musicals/Dreaming%20script.pdf

Ben´s character is named Alexander

August 1st, 2011

Hana said:

okay, sorry, seems internet is mad, sorry for two posts, but the first one disappeared , so I wrote a new one, sorry :(

btw I am celebrating rignt now, cause The Seventh Son will have a premiere in our country on February the 14th!!

August 1st, 2011

Natalie said:

So Hana you may have a chance to see Ben on the Valentines Day!!! 0v0

August 1st, 2011

Juliette said:

Whaou, I love I love I love ! Ben <3

August 1st, 2011

Maiamai said:

And I just noticed that “The Wedding” is scheduled to open on 13 July next year here :o)

August 1st, 2011

Kell said:

@Maiamai: Where did you find out about the date for the Wedding.

August 1st, 2011

FL said:

wonderful…we already have international dates! :D BTW, has anybody read the Spook’s series? I have a question about the creatures we’ve seen in the concept arts…I know they are not in book 1, so I wonder from which book they come from.

August 1st, 2011

Kim said:

@Fl – I was wondering the same thing. It could be boggart.

I’m about to finish book 4 and I can’t wait to see these on the big screen. I think Ben is perfect for the part.

August 1st, 2011

FL said:

@Kim: you’ve read up to book 4? Anything remotely like the creatures? (i.e. the giant monster coming out of the ground and the skeletal horserider). I’m about to start book 2 btw.

August 1st, 2011

Kim said:

@FL – yep and I’m hoping to start 5 later tonight. The giant monster coming from the ground could be a boggart. As for the skeletal rider, there isn’t anything like that so far in the books unless I missed something. Book 2 is really good but so far 3 and 4 are my favorites.

August 1st, 2011

FL said:

ahh i see…thanks. I guess they probably changed some stuff, like what the director said in Comic-con, cos while the books are good, they are not remotely as interesting as Harry Potter. So the movie must improvise a bit to make it appealing i guess.

August 1st, 2011

kulotz said:

@FL

Really? the books are not that interesting as HP? Then why did they choose to make a film out of it? Actually, Im in the mid part of Book 1. and Im a bit depressed about these feedbacks. Im a big fan of horror movies. In fact i made a thesis about whitchcraft when i was in college. If I am to compare it with the stuffs i read and watch, I find the book quite dragging. But I do hope they will be able to cure the problem. oh ben, please make it good for us.

August 2nd, 2011

FL said:

@kulotz

i didn’t mean to say the book is bad…the story is good in its own right, but i don’t think it’ll be nearly as phenomenal as HP. Perhaps because HP has so many interesting characters and combines wizardry and boarding school and everything which makes it interesting and makes you want to keep turning the pages, while the Wardstone Chronicles is more like a classic witch-hunter story. Also HP has plenty of humor while the Wardstone Chronicles is much more serious. In other words, I think it doesn’t have as much blockbuster potential as HP. However, I do think the movie will be quite different from the books. I believe the director will improvise and add some elements so that the screen adaptation will be much more interesting. I’ve seen this happened with the Narnia movies…I frankly find the screen adaptations much more interesting than the book. But this is just IMHO. (btw, I’m a fan of fantasy and horror stories too. I do enjoy the Wardstone Chronicles…but I don’t find myself finishing the book in one go like i did with HP books).

August 2nd, 2011

FL said:

by the way, does the series have strong followers? We’ve seen millions of fansites/boards for HP but I am yet to find one for the Spooks series. Has anybody seen one?

August 2nd, 2011

Maiamai said:

@Kell:
I went to the official cinemawebsite in this country and looked at the schedule for upcoming movies and lo and behold! There it was!

Just hope they stick to it though and not keep shifing the dates and eventually take it off the schedule as they did with Killing Bono. I´m still really angry about that. That movie was scheduled for theatrical release here up until about a month before the UK premiere! And now we only get it on DVD.

August 2nd, 2011

Hana said:

@FL
I only found this official page for Spooks Books
http://www.spooksbooks.com/index.asp

and this fan page
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43461171864

but seems there is no huge groups of fans. Anyway I read the first book and I like it. Trying to get the rest of the series now.
It is a dark fantasy, but it is interesting to read it.

@Maiamai
lucky for you, you already know the release date of The Wedding ;)

August 2nd, 2011

rachel said:

Ben out with amanda seyfried and katherine heigl
http://thejjb.com/reply/10839714/Amanda-Seyfried–Katherine-Heigl—Lunch–Connecticut-Aug-1

August 2nd, 2011

Maiamai said:

Wow, that´s the first pic we´ve seen related to that shoot I think.
Many thanks rachel :o)

August 2nd, 2011

Shunrei said:

LOL I hope that nobody gets angry for what I am going to say and forgive me, but when I have entered here (and before reading rachel’s message) when I have seen the images in small, above about the page I thought that Katherine Heigl was TE. And I thought: “They already caught them ” xDD. Certainly Ben seems that he comes from the gym xD.

Thanks for the pictures, rachel :)

August 2nd, 2011

kulotz said:

@ FL

sorry i misunderstood you. well at least you made me feel a little pk with your explanation. ibut m keeping my fingers crossed that this will turn out to be a good movie coz it really pains me to read bad reviews about ben and his movies. i know he’s a good actor and very professional. he doesn’t deserve over-the-edge bad reviews.

@ Shunrei

abd ben looks very fresh and young.

August 2nd, 2011

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