
In a time of enchantments when legends and magic collide, the sole remaining warrior of a mystical order (Jeff Bridges) travels to find a prophesized hero born with incredible powers, the last Seventh Son (Ben Barnes). Torn from his quiet life as a farmhand, the unlikely young hero embarks on a daring adventure with his battle-hardened mentor to vanquish a dark queen (Julianne Moore) and the army of supernatural assassins she has dispatched against their kingdom.
Master Gregory is the last surviving member of a brotherhood of Falcon Knights who were all seventh sons of seventh sons. To be the seventh son of a seventh son is to be seven times as strong, as smart and as courageous as a normal man. That’s quite a rare thing, but it’s what Gregory needs to fight these evil forces. Right now, there’s only one young lad who meets those requirements, Tom Ward.

It turns out that the apprentice of the last Falcon Knight, a boy with the heart of a man and the blood of a witch, was a hard role to cast. Producer Basil Iwanyk relays: “Tom needed to have an innocence at the beginning to sell the fact that this was a young soul who didn’t know yet what his destiny was, but would be able to grow into a superhero. Our Tom needed to be a great foil to Gregory, who is taciturn and tough. We wanted an apprentice who is a little bit livelier and bouncier than Gregory; we didn’t want two brooding people in the film. Ben fit all those bills.”

As the relationship in the film became more fruitful, so did the performers’ in real life. Shares Barnes: “The ice just broke between us, and he talked me through his approach to the various scenes we did.”
Opening across the Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 8, “Seventh Son” is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.
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