Philip Pullman will tonight be joining other luminaries such as musician Billy Bragg and human rights lawyer Imran Khan for Oxford Brookes University's annual Chancellor's Lecture, reports [link=http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/tiooxmail/display.var.1045366.0.pullman_joins_lecture_lineup.php]The Oxford Times[/link]. The panel will be chaired by broadcaster Jon Snow and will consider the question, “What does the world need from us?”, looking ahead to what challenges the world will face in 2015, and how universities can respond. [link=http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/tiooxmail/display.var.1045366.0.pullman_joins_lecture_lineup.php]Read more.[/link]
Pullman at Oxford Brookes Tonight
November 29, 2006
Special TV Preview: Ruby in the Smoke
November 25, 2006
“On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby and a young girl got out and paid the driver. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.” The BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's first book in the series, Ruby in the Smoke, is set to air this Christmas and an advance screening is to take place at the National Film Theatre. Pullman will take part in a Q&A following the preview. You can book tickets online at the NFT's website.
Eva said: Bana, Hurt, Bacon for TGC
November 21, 2006
An interview of Eva Green by the French magazine Studio is doing the rounds at the moment. In it, Eva remarks that Eric Bana, Kevin Bacon and John Hurt were set to join the cast of The Golden Compass. The interview was however conducted before filming began in September and our New Line source has said that both Bana and Bacon are old rumours. Indeed, BttS reported previously that Eric Bana was in negotiations to play Lord Asriel at an earlier stage. View the interview (relevant info at the very bottom).
Further Filming in Oxford
November 21, 2006
There has been further filming going on in Oxford. Townie on the forums says: “They were filming in Ship Street, between the Turl (where Exeter/Jordan is) and Cornmarket. There were lots of people in nice costumes and a fair few dons and riff-raffy looking people and some little street urchins. There was a real live cat and they were getting it to jump up on its hind legs using a clicking thing, then they got it to jump over what looked like trip wire close to the ground. I'm taking it to be somebody's dæmon.”
There have also been reports that there has been filming of scenes within “our” world. This would suggest that New Line may be taking the film away from the plot of the Golden Compass as we know it.
More exciting, Kirusato from the forums, managed to shoot some film on his mobile phone of the filming. You can watch it here.
Craig on HDM
November 17, 2006
Daniel Craig, the actor playing Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass movie, is doing the press rounds with his James Bond film, Casino Royale, releasing this week He had a few words to say on His Dark Materials in one interview:
“Those are three of my favorite books, the Philip Pullman trilogy. Just the timing worked out. New Line came and said, ‘Are you interested?’ And I was interested. I think they are fantastic children’s books. I think they’re about love and they’re about growing up and they’re about how, as adults, we should see the world, and how, for children, growing up is one of the biggest struggles, one of the toughest things you’ll ever do.”
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