The Woman in Black is a big movie for Daniel Radcliffe after Harry Potter role. It will push him further than all eight Harry Potter movies and it’s also something of an added challenge for the young actor because Susan Hill’s popular 1983 novel and the subsequent adapted play is set around a character who is suggested to be older than Radcliffe, an actor who is so defined by the boy wizard that has taken up the last decade of his life.
Indeed Hammer originally offered the lead role of the young solicitor Arthur Kipps, who ‘travels to rural England in order to deal with a recently deceased client’s paperwork, only to discover the vengeful ghost of a woman awaiting him’ to both Michael Fassbender and Colin Farrell before seeing an opportunity of what they could do with Potter’s big adult role.
Written by Jane Goldman (Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) and directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake) – the movie opens October 28th in the U.K. with a U.S. date not yet cemented.
source: IGN