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Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that production is officially underway on Legendary Pictures’ fantasy action adventure, ‘The Seventh Son’, under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Sergei Bodrov. View the synopsis below:

In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory.

In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. Now he has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man’s only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son.

‘The Seventh Son’ will be shot entirely on location in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Follow the links below for several interviews with Ben from the Sundance Film Festival that have shown up online recently. He talks about his role in The Words, as well as his upcoming projects The Wedding and The Seventh Son.

– Ben Barnes Says He Was Initially Advised Not To Make ‘The Words’ (The Playlist)
– Ben Barnes Talks The Words, Overdrive, The Seventh Son and more at Sundance (Collider.com)
– The Words: Sundance Red Carpet Gallery and Brief Interview with Ben Barnes (Salt Lake Tribune)
– Ben Barnes Interview at Sundance (Coming Soon)

In his interview with Collider.com, Ben also mentions that his other upcoming project, Overdrive (with Karl Urban), ‘fell apart’ and (for the moment) ‘is no longer happening’.

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Another new project! Karl Urban and Ben Barnes have been cast as car-thief brothers in the France-set actioner, Overdrive. Filming begins October 29th.

Karl Urban and Ben Barnes have been cast as car-thief brothers in the France-set actioner Overdrive. Antonio Negret (Seconds Apart) is directing the project, which was written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt.

Pierre Morel, whose kidnapping thriller Taken was a surprise success in 2008, is producing along with Haas and Brandt. Filming begins October 29 in Marseilles.

Urban, who plays Bones in the revamped Star Trek franchise, and Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series, will play adventurous siblings who find more trouble than they are looking for in the South of France.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Ben recently spoke with Coming Soon about his upcoming film, ‘The Seventh Son’. The article also mentions that filming of ‘TSS’ will begin in March 2012.

“The plans for this are to shoot in Vancouver and China and some of the artwork just looks incredible,” he told us. “I think it’s certainly going to look pretty special, and I’ve read a couple of the books on which this series is based and they’re pretty engaging. The main draws were Sergei directing it, and Legendary Pictures making it. They make Batman and ‘Inception,’ amazing movies, and to top that off, most of my scenes are with Jeff Bridges, who is one of my favorite actors.”

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