IGN have posted numerous storyboards and concept art from The Golden Compass. The storyboards go through several scenes, including Lyra and Mrs Coulter in her apartment, Lyra meeting Serafina onboard the Nooderlicht and the Silver Guillotine at Bolvangar. Go to IGN to view the images.
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An interview of Philip Pullman by Donna Freitas, co-author of “Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman’s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials”, has been uploaded to YouTube. In it, he discusses the almost-divinity of Dust and its manifestation in the world as consciousness and intelligence. There are five videos in all, touching on religion, story-telling and everything else that’s been discussed in the news recently. View them here on YouTube. Here’s the video on “Nature and Meaning of Dust” to get you going:
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Nicole Kidman will be appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America this Monday (12 November) at 8am EST. Read more.
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MTV Movies Blog is offering fans the opportunity to ask the Golden Compass director Chris Weitz their questions, “on anything you can possibly think of.” Just e-mail tips@mtvmoviesblog.com and Weitz will answer his favourite quetsions. Read more.
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Update: Chris Weitz, the film’s director, has responded to the AM’s piece, calling it a “hatchet-job”. You can read his response here.
This month’s Atlantic Monthly has an excellent article on the controversy surrounding The Golden Compass movie, featuring new quotes from New Line and Philip Pullman. It sheds light on the decisions the movie studio have had to make about the book’s (anti-)religious content and the deliberations over how much of it should be removed. The article is only able to view through subscription, so we’ve summarised the contents here. It’s worth reading in full and addresses with clarity many of the issues fans of His Dark Materials have been concerned with for the past four years.
Toby Emmerich, New Line’s president of production, explained how the religious Magisterium have been changed to “feel vaguely kind of like a fascistic, totalitarian dictatorship, Russian / KGB / SS.” AM write rather damningly that, “with $180 million at stake” [the figure has in fact risen to $205 million +], that “the studio opted to kidnap the book’s body and leave behind its soul.”
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