Why so old?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
BirdsDoThus — 21 years ago(March 13, 2005 08:29 PM)
In the first movie the actor who played issac was 23 years old, and the actor who plays micah was around 21 years old. i find it a little odd that the charecters they play are so young yet the actors are so old.
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COTCgirl — 20 years ago(April 06, 2005 06:35 AM)
John Franklin (Isaac) has growth hormone deficiency. This is what makes him so short (5'0 which is my height also to be exact) and the reason he looks so young. I'm not sure about Ryan Bollman (Micah) but I know that JF had what the director was looking for in an Isaac. Courtney Gains (Malachai) was 18 so I'm not sure. A lot of the young actors in the first film were actually people from the place the crew was filming in Sioux City, Iowa. But that is why they cast JF as Isaac and I think he did a darn good job of it too. Also there are currently 7 COTC films. I am probably the biggest fan of the films owning all of them! There's Children of the Corn, Children of the Corn II: Final Sacrifice, Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return, and Children of the Corn Revelation. There is also suppose to be a COTC 8 filming or in progress. I've heard tell that the director of Darkness Falls is suppose to be making it. But IDK what's going on with that.
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BirdsDoThus — 20 years ago(April 14, 2005 03:19 PM)
That was a rumor from around last year, and i hear he is working on a project so it probably wont be happening anytime soon(or ever). darkness falls sucked anyway. but who are we kidding, children of the corn isnt exactly deep stuff..
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COTCgirl — 20 years ago(April 15, 2005 02:01 PM)
I still think that sooner or later it will be remade. I don't know when but I'm sure sometime it will be made. Whether it's John Harris or someone else. And I loved number 6 because it tied you back into number one. But I do agree that Revelation was a bad sequel!.
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rosebud200320 — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 02:28 AM)
It does not matter to me if the actors of the "Children of the Corn" series are older then their characters, I still think they are good actors and that goes for a lot of actors who are older then their characters.
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sinceimetjc — 20 years ago(October 29, 2005 04:00 AM)
Even if they were in their 20's I wouldn't see what the big deal is. Teens in teen movies are always played by 20 year olds and sometimes even 30 year olds. Did you really think that Freddy Prinze Jr. was 18 when he played in "She's all that?" Or that half the cast of Dawson's Creek were still teenagers? It has always been done that way. I guess because it's hard to find enough teens that can act full time so they get adults that can kind of pass as teens.
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COTCgirl — 20 years ago(December 19, 2005 11:33 PM)
I have something to add to this and my post(s) above. Fritz Kiersh the director of COTC the first film made a point that he had to be careful with the actors that he got to play the parts. Especially if they were young because with a film on a topic such as this one is with religion and murderious kids you have to be careful with the cast. Their parents will obviously be involved if they are really young such as Robby Kieger and Anne Marie McEvoy were in COTC. Also Kiersh said that the kids since they were so young couldn't really grasp what they were doing or getting themselves into. They didn't really understand the dynamics of the parts they played. So getting older actors who could grasp the concepts of the films and their parts which to me seems logical. So they were older in real life but played younger kids so there wouldn't be an issue with understanding all the elements that surrounds a film or a series of films like these. The whole cult thing, the killings, the religious fanaticism, is all something that would be hard for a younger child to understand and to comprehend. So older actors would be better for the parts. If that makes any sense.
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COTCgirl — 20 years ago(January 13, 2006 11:42 AM)
He was probably just giving an example of how he was quite older in the film and when he got an agent than he really looked. So he was giving the example that he looked like he was young when he showed up to get an agent after 6 weeks of being in California but he was actually a lot older than he looked. So he was 17 when he did the first film he was just giving an example.
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