It lives, it lives.
Our director? Tom Hooper.
Lyra? Dafne Keen, aka Laura/X-23 from Logan
Lee Scoresby? Lin-Manuel Miranda
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On the one hand, I don't think it's possible to make a worse adaptation than that movie. On the other hand, I keep saying that about the Fantastic Four films, and they keep proving me wrong.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The book... had a lot of really big religious themes (if just, extremely critical of religion) and the film wanted Nicole Kidman so bad that they bowed to her request that the film wouldn't have such a massively critial view on religion. Which, since that's a MASSIVE part of the original series and part of the appeal and what made it different, it just pissed off people who were fans of the original and didn't stand out enough to build a new fanbase.
The books were written to be the Anti-Narnia about how religion is awful and science is good. Increasingly, they became the Anti-Narnia in the exact same way Naria fell to pieces: they ceased to tell anything resembling a good story and became straight up preaching at the reader.
edited 11th Mar '18 7:45:15 AM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.The film also had the issue of cutting the ending of the first book entirely, but yeah the general issue was the toning down of the anti-religion (yet I’d argue not anti-faith) message in a foolish atmept to avoid outrage from Americans.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOh hey, a bit of a heads-up, apparently while HDM will air on BBC One in the UK, it turns out HBO (who is co-producing the series) will be airing it everywhere else, including the US.
Another trailer from SDCC:
Hey, anyone still remember that Golden Compass movie from a while back?
Because this makes that look pretty silly in hindsight, as I right?
As someone who has never read the books, I loved the film and was disappointed that it never had sequels. It's nice to see a new, Truer to the Text adaptation being made.

Well.
I didn't see that one coming.
Beyond it being an eight-episode mini-series there aren't any details yet or any clue about whether they're covering all the books or just the first and most famous one for now but wow. If a proper budget can be fixed this has potential.