{"id":540,"date":"2007-12-06T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/weitz-speaks-to-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:17:03","slug":"weitz-speaks-to-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/weitz-speaks-to-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Weitz speaks to Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Compass director spoke briefly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">Washington Post<\/a> yesterday, and they&#8217;ve today published an article in which much of what has been previously said is rehashed. BridgetotheStars is mentioned however, thanks to our interview with Weitz a few years ago and because some of us are &#8216;grumbling&#8217; about the religious aspects! An interesting quotation from the article, which stands as a reminder to the origins of the movie is.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;As a serious fan of the &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; trilogy, Weitz says he&#8217;d be a little wary, too, if he heard that the dude from &#8220;American Pie&#8221; would direct &#8220;The Golden Compass.&#8221; In fact, when his name first surfaced on fan sites, he barely beat out &#8220;nobody at all&#8221; in a poll of candidates for the director&#8217;s job.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the article in full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/05\/AR2007120502886.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Compass director spoke briefly to the Washington Post yesterday, and they&#8217;ve today published an article in which much of what has been previously said is rehashed. BridgetotheStars is mentioned however, thanks to our interview with Weitz a few years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/weitz-speaks-to-washington-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}