Inkheart
is an upcoming 2009 fantasy film , directed by Iain Softley . It is
based on the 2003 German novel of the same name by Cornelia Funke.
When Mo (Brendan Fraser) reads aloud from books, he has the ability to
make the characters come out of the book, into real life. Mo discovered
his power when his daughter Meggie (Eliza Bennett), was just a baby. Mo
read aloud from the book Inkheart, which caused several of the book's
wicked characters, including Capricorn (Andy Serkis), to literally come
to life. But while he read them out of the book, he accidentally read
Meggie’s mother, Theresa (Sienna Guillory) into the story.
Meggie is 12 years old, but knows nothing of her father's bizarre and
powerful talent. But Meggie is annoyed that Mo still refuses to read to
her. Capricorn, a man who burns for pleasure and being so evil that he
would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn
apart", has searched for Meggie's father for years, seeking to twist
Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes
that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use
his beloved daughter Meggie as bait. While Meggie discovers Capricorn's
ruthless plan, she too, can pluck people from pages and bring them to
life, but it takes a while for her to realize her power.
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