{"id":25,"date":"2005-08-12T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T09:57:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1123855047","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1123855047\/","title":{"rendered":"Anand Tucker talks Dark Materials with Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117927134?categoryid=1876&#038;cs=1&#038;s=h&#038;p=0\" target=\"_blank\">Variety.com<\/a> adds some new quotes from Anand Tucker about his appointment as director of His Dark Materials: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a huge picture, and it is perhaps easy to be overwhelmed by the logistics, but at its heart, this is a cracking good story about a reluctant hero,&#8221; Tucker said. &#8220;All the effects and scale only work if they&#39;re marshaled in service of the story.&#8221; <i>(That has to be one of the most refreshing lines we&#39;ve heard in a long time about the direction in which these films are going&#8211;cheers to Anand Tucker)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>On his persistence in getting the job, he says:<br \/>&#8220;I haunted Scholastic&#39;s Deborah Forte, who&#39;s producing it, then pestered the life out of New Line when they bought it, and quietly cursed Chris Weitz when he got the job,&#8221; Tucker said. &#8220;This has been a long campaign, but I am confident.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117927134?categoryid=1876&#038;cs=1&#038;s=h&#038;p=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety.com adds some new quotes from Anand Tucker about his appointment as director of His Dark Materials: &#8220;It is a huge picture, and it is perhaps easy to be overwhelmed by the logistics, but at its heart, this is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1123855047\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}