{"id":367,"date":"2007-11-03T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/keeping-the-film-on-track\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T22:52:09","slug":"keeping-the-film-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/keeping-the-film-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the film on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Chris Weitz spoke to Gina Piccalo from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-ca-golden4nov04,1,353.story?coll=la-entnews-movies&#038;ctrack=4&#038;cset=true\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> over the phone from Abbey Road where the Golden Compass&#8217; film score is being recorded.  On adapting the book, he said, &#8220;If you properly adapt a book, you should do a miniseries of it. But that&#8217;s financially impossible. So you&#8217;re working in the movie form. You are reducing it to its essentials without making it feel rushed. That&#8217;s the tough thing.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-ca-golden4nov04,1,353.story?coll=la-entnews-movies&#038;ctrack=4&#038;cset=true\"><br \/>\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/latimes1.jpg' title='latimes1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/latimes1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='latimes1.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/latimes2.jpg' title='latimes2.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/latimes2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='latimes2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-ca-golden28oct28,1,2326350,full.story?coll=la-entnews-movies\">second article<\/a> for the LA Times, Piccalo describes the different critics the film is facing, Britain&#8217;s National Secular Society and America&#8217;s Catholic League alike.  However, &#8220;Thus far, [Catholic League President] Donahue&#8217;s blanket mailing to media and other religious groups of his exhaustive 30-page brochure titled &#8220;The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked&#8221; seems to have done little more than help promote the film.&#8221;  This longer article also speaks to many other concerns for the film, &#8220;Riding on the coattails of this fancy yarn are hundreds of millions of dollars, more than a few careers and the loyalties of an army of fans. But if New Line gets this one right, look out Harry, little Lyra&#8217;s going to give you a run for your money.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-ca-golden28oct28,1,2326350,full.story?coll=la-entnews-movies\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Chris Weitz spoke to Gina Piccalo from the Los Angeles Times over the phone from Abbey Road where the Golden Compass&#8217; film score is being recorded. On adapting the book, he said, &#8220;If you properly adapt a book, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/keeping-the-film-on-track\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}