Be sure to check out the article in Vanity Fair this month about Philip Pullman (titled “Oxford’s Rebel Angel” by Christopher Hitchens)… An interesting read- some background about Pullman that I didn’t know… as well as some more confirmations about Tom Stoppard writing the screenplay, etc.

Overshadowed by the news of the movie, it seems that everyone has missed this line from the Variety article on Feb. 4th: “The Royal National Theater is in advanced negotiations for a stage version [of His Dark Materials], three plays over three nights, which Nicholas Hytner will direct in 2004.”

From the archive: 11 September 2002