{"id":767,"date":"2009-07-27T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/chris-weitz-describes-work-with-new-line-a-terrible-experience\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:24:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T03:24:58","slug":"chris-weitz-describes-work-with-new-line-a-terrible-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/chris-weitz-describes-work-with-new-line-a-terrible-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weitz describes work with New Line: a terrible experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many members of fandom are well aware, Comic Con 2009 has just passed.  <i>Golden Compass<\/i> director Chris Weitz participated in Summit Entertainment&#8217;s Thursday panel to promote <i>Twilight<\/i> sequel <i>New Moon<\/i>.  While answering questions regarding his new work, Weitz referenced his work on the film adaptation of <i>the Golden Compass<\/i> and confirmed what many fans have believed, &#8220;The last film that I made was recut by the studio, and my experience with it ended being quite a terrible one.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Comic-Con-Chris-Weitz-Calls-Golden-Compass-A-Terrible-Experience-14059.html\">Cinema Blend<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The director described his work with Summit Entertainment as rejuvenating, in comparison to his previous work with New Line, and remarked, &#8220;I now remember how much fun it can be to make a film.&#8221;  (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ropeofsilicon.com\/article\/comic-con-2009-summits-twilight-new-moon-panel-with-video\">Ropes of Silicon<\/a>)  However, it was not a complete loss, as the director found the process to be a rather instructive for him with regards to the use of CGI. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdworld.blogs.time.com\/2009\/07\/24\/san-diego-comic-con-in-which-i-find-the-movie-of-the-con\/\">Time<\/a>)  Thanks to Haku from our French community partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittagazze.com\/\">Citt&agrave;gazze<\/a> for pointing this out to us.  The discussion continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=7&#038;t=207849\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many members of fandom are well aware, Comic Con 2009 has just passed. Golden Compass director Chris Weitz participated in Summit Entertainment&#8217;s Thursday panel to promote Twilight sequel New Moon. While answering questions regarding his new work, Weitz referenced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/chris-weitz-describes-work-with-new-line-a-terrible-experience\/\">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-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}