The film adaptation of Pullman’s novel The Butterfly Tattoo (previously published as “The White Mercedes”) will open Saturday, 13th September at the Film by the Sea Festival at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. With its world premiere at the Big Theatre, this independent production by Dynamic Enterprises will share a screen with such predecessors as Babel, Das Leben der Anderen, and Chocolat. “TBT” will also screen at the Dutch Film Festival in late September, followed by the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival on 19th September as opening feature. Director Phil Hawkins won “Best Director” award at the 2006 edition of the New York festival for his first film as director, The Women of Troy.
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It’s very cool that this happened. Is a UK release date set? Will anything special be happening here in Oxford?
If this film is a success then hopefully Phillip Pullman will raise his author celebrity status. Then people will be interested into reading and watching the rest of the His Dark Materials trilogy. Also if they wanted to they can use the same director. Not that they need to because Chris W was brilliant its just half you lot are so impatient and won’t realise the weight on his shoulder and he had when producing the film.
Um, yeah; that might not actually happen Matt.
I look forward to hearing about UK release dates.
Its true. Just watch JK Rowlings new book, Tales of Beedle and Bard become a hollywood blockbuster.
That book is a collection of short stories. I don’t really think that a movie based on random wizard fables will be made into a movie.
…what I meant to say is that I don’t think that movie would ever be made.
Sorry, Matt, but while I hope it’s a good movie, it probably won’t raise Pullman’s celebrity status….
I mean, Pullman is a best-selling author with a big-budget Hollywood movie of one of his books, whereas The Butterfly Tattoo is a small independent film by mostly unknown filmmakers.
If anything, if Phillip Pullman likes The Butterfly Tattoo, he should be using his fame to promote the film, not the other way around.