Will Chris Weitz of American Pie direct His Dark Materials? This sounds like a terrible idea at first…then again, I thought he and brother Paul Weitz did a solid job with About a Boy. Well, hopefully they won’t throw out the Tom Stoppard script too quickly…
Tag: Philip Pullman
Wonder Daemons.
“Pullman has looked around at this broken universe of ours, in its naturalistic tatters, and has indicated, like Satan pointing to the place on which Pandemonium will rise, the site of our truest contemporary narratives of the Fall: in the lives, in the bodies and souls, of our children.” Michael Chabon belatedly reviews the His Dark Materials trilogy for the NY Review of Books.
Animals strike curious poses.
Max of Lots of Co. points the way to these pics (and review) of the His Dark Materials play. Hmm. I must say the daemons look a bit…strange. Of course the real trick is how they move.
Now what?
With the Lord of the Rings sadly, inevitably drawing to its conclusion, the Post delves into His Dark Materials. Hopefully, the powers-that-be will have the sense to get Brett Ratner the hell away from this project.
Oxford Blues.
By way of LinkMachineGo and Lots of Co., Phillip Pullman announces he’s bringing back Lyra (of the His Dark Materials trilogy) for a short story and follow-up novel. No word on the Ratner-Mendes film reports of a few days ago.
The Subtler Knife.
Contrary to the Ratner report of a few days ago, AICN reports that Sam Mendes will take on His Dark Materials. Better than Ratner, surely, but I for one didn’t think all that much of Road to Perdition. Can’t we draft Gilliam for this project?
The Not-So-Subtle Knife.
In less happy movie news, Brett Ratner – recently kicked off of WB’s Superman – is now threatening to screw up Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Pullman’s work aside, a Tom Stoppard screenplay deserves a better director. Can’t you just make Rush Hour 3 or something?
Iorek v. Aslan.
His Dark Materials author Phillip Pullman rips into C.S. Lewis. (Via LinkMachineGo.) Pullman’s got a point, but to my mind his trilogy grew a lot more ponderous and a lot less fun once the whole Republic of Heaven angle became the central thrust of the story (somewhere in the first third of The Subtle Knife.)