Things get a little more hairy than usual when it seems like the ancient dark magic of the coven - usually, evil CGI tree roots flying all over the place - is a little closer to home, and that the queen witch isn’t quite gone for good.
Calder’s a little more jaded than he used to be, having left the possibility of love behind back in the 13th century the only things he loves are fixing up old occult talismans and whiskey. Leslie was born Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie in Aberdeen. Leslie also appeared in the films Now Is Good (2012) and The Last Witch Hunter (2015). She is famous for playing Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011). These are the witches who are - of course - responsible for the Plague that killed his wife and daughter.įast forward to 2015: jaded immortal and jacked bro Calder (Diesel) is still fighting witches, with the help of a Catholic sect (including priests played by Michael Caine and Elijah Wood…yep) and a good/chill witch counsel devoted to promoting the peace and keeping dark magic down. Her leading on screen debut was at age 21 in the television film New Town (2009). It tells the story of a 13th century witch hunter who is cursed with immortality while fighting and killing the queen witch of a coven inside a jumbo-sized gnarled tree. It’s an original screenplay, not an adaptation, and the concept is surprisingly singular. For all this, though, Witch Hunter has its charm, partially because this is not the kind of bad Hollywood fantasy adventure we see getting made that often.
