THE LIST OF SEVEN
Though initially an occult murder mystery, the story brings in conspiracy theory, vendetta, horror, history, and mysticism as it progress in Mark Frost's 1993 novel The List of Seven.
In the opening sequence, the film will start with the seance scenes where two people eventually murdered and Doyle is saved by "Professor Sacker" aka Jack Sparks for the 1st time.
After a monologue from Doyle then the opening title shots will appear focusing through the illustration of Jack's headquarters.
Just after that we'll find Doyle & Claude Leboux, (a friend and Scotland Yard Inspector) are investigating the house where the seance took place but it has been redecorated.
Then more or less it'll follow the way story in the novel progressed, like Doyle gets a note from Helena Petrovna Blavatsky inviting him to a speech in Cambridge.
He goes to Cambridge, unsuccessfully tries to track down Sacker, and then Doyle attends Blavatsky's talk, and speaks with her afterwards. She warns him of dark spirits and after a meal he is attacked and is rescued by "Professor Sacker" for a second time who turns to be then Jack Sparks, Special Agent to the Crown. They head to Topping to the estate of one of the attendees at the seance, but find that it has become a madhouse. They find a clue to go to a publishing house called Rathbourne & Sons in London. On the journey back to London, Jack reveals that his brother Alexander may be the mastermind behind all their troubles. Here we'll have some major flashbacks of the Sparks brothers; about how Jack discovered that he had an older brother Alexander whom he had never heard of or met before 5. After two years of pestering his parents they finally agreed to allow Jack to met Alexander at his boarding school, but only under close supervision. And literary it''l show how Jack began to find the evilness or cruelty that Alexander done all through his life.
Jack thinks the attacks on Doyle are prompted by a manuscript (entitled "The Dark Brotherhood") that Doyle submitted to Rathbourne & Sons. When they get to the publishing house they find a list of the board of directors - the titular “List of Seven.” A secret trapdoor leads them via an aqueduct to a storage room in the British Museum, which has had many statues stolen from it.
The next day they journey to Whitby to trace an acting troupe that may have been involved in staging the seance, there they meet Bram Stoker and an actress named Eileen, the last survivor of the doomed acting troupe. Stoker tells them that strange sights have been seen at the abandoned nunnery north of the town. They investigate, and witness an occult ceremony using the corpse of Sparks' father. Alexander Sparks confronts Doyle, Eileen & Stoker and invites them to dinner, where they meet the rest of the Seven. Their plan is to take control of Prince Edward, Duke of Clarence, third in line to the throne, and use him to enslave the world by putting a demon in his future child. The four (Doyle, Eileen, Jack & Stoker) fight with the Seven and with the help of a regiment of Royal Marines and Household Cavalry, they defeat the Seven. In this film version the character Bram Stoker will play more larger part than in compare to the novel where he only helps them with valued info.
Jack disappears to continue the hunt for Alexander who has gotten away, while Doyle is granted an audience with Queen Victoria, who offers her thanks for his help. Doyle later learns that Jack and Alexander fought and fell over the Reichenbach Falls, with neither surviving, Doyle decides to commemorate Jack by creating a character in the image of his friend - Sherlock Holmes.
Director: James McTeigue [V for vendetta]
Screenplay: Mark Forst
Producer & screenplay: Guillermo del Toro
In an interview with
RottenTomatoes he told...
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We developed a great, crazy adaptation of the novel List of Seven with Mark Frost!"
Characters & Cast:
AC Doyle by Jeremy Renner
Jack Sparks by Michael Fassbender
Alexander Sparks/Maximilian Graves by Jackie Earle Haley
Claude Leboux by Rupert Evans
Bram Stoker by Ewan McGregor
Eileen Temple by Sienna Miller
Larry by Dominic Monaghan
Barry by Ray Park
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky by Olivia Williams
Sir Nigel Gull by Alan Rickman
Lady Caroline Nicholson by Kim Cattrall
Professor Arminius Vamberg by Hugo Weaving
Bishop Caius Pillphrock by Jonathan Pryce
John Chandros by Billy Crudup
General Drummond by Ron Perlman
Music Composer:
Trevor Jones
Estimated Budget:
$ 20 million.