{"id":737,"date":"2009-04-26T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interviewed-in-scotland-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T08:30:39","slug":"pullman-interviewed-in-scotland-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interviewed-in-scotland-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman interviewed in Scotland on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com\/features\/Philip-Pullman-interview-.5204531.jp\">interview in Scotland on Sunday<\/a> today, Pullman discusses writing fantasy and escapism, comparisons with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, his creative instincts and adaptations. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always thought it was utterly stupid to sell the rights to an adaptation and then moan about the way they do it. If you wrote a strong enough story it will stand up to adaptation. The only thing I&#8217;m zealously protective about is the integrity of the story. There was a moment early in the film discussions when somebody high up at the studio said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s make Lyra into a boy.'&#8221; Thanks to blacksatindancer for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in Scotland on Sunday today, Pullman discusses writing fantasy and escapism, comparisons with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, his creative instincts and adaptations. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always thought it was utterly stupid to sell the rights to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interviewed-in-scotland-on-sunday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,19,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-philip-pullman","category-stage-adaptations","category-the-book-trilogy","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}