I have heard of the movie plans -- someone else on my friendslist has also been writing about the trilogy recently, including an article:
'Pie's' Weitz may take on 'Dark Materials' Tuesday, May 25, 2004 Posted: 10:18 AM EDT (1418 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Filmmaker Chris Weitz is in early talks to direct "His Dark Materials," the first installment of Philip Pullman's celebrated kids fantasy book trilogy.
The project is set up at New Line Cinema, which is eyeing the series as a follow-up to its blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" franchise.
The trilogy -- "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" -- revolves around two children who live in parallel worlds surrounded by a cast of shape-shifting creatures. Described as darker in tone than the "Harry Potter" books, the series tackles themes of childhood, innocence and sin, and combines magic, science and theology.
The final book became the first children's title to win Britain's prestigious Whitbread prize.
Weitz will also write the screenplay. An earlier draft was written by Tom Stoppard.
It was unclear whether Weitz would direct the other two installments or whether he would produce with his brother, Paul Weitz, through the duo's Depth of Field The Weitz brothers directed "American Pie," "Down to Earth" and "About a Boy," receiving an Oscar nomination for their adaptation of the latter, along with novelist Peter Hedges.
Chris is producing the romantic comedy "Synergy," starring Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace, which Paul is directing at Universal.
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Re: wishing for a daemon of my own...
Date: 2004-06-02 07:32 am (UTC)'Pie's' Weitz may take on 'Dark Materials'
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 Posted: 10:18 AM EDT (1418 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Filmmaker Chris Weitz is in early talks to direct "His Dark Materials," the first installment of Philip Pullman's celebrated kids fantasy book trilogy.
The project is set up at New Line Cinema, which is eyeing the series as a follow-up to its blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" franchise.
The trilogy -- "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" -- revolves around two children who live in parallel worlds surrounded by a cast of shape-shifting creatures. Described as darker in tone than the "Harry Potter" books, the series tackles themes of childhood, innocence and sin, and combines magic, science and theology.
The final book became the first children's title to win Britain's prestigious Whitbread prize.
Weitz will also write the screenplay. An earlier draft was written by Tom Stoppard.
It was unclear whether Weitz would direct the other two installments or whether he would produce with his brother, Paul Weitz, through the duo's Depth of Field The Weitz brothers directed "American Pie," "Down to Earth" and "About a Boy," receiving an Oscar nomination for their adaptation of the latter, along with novelist Peter Hedges.
Chris is producing the romantic comedy "Synergy," starring Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace, which Paul is directing at Universal.
And this, too: http://hisdarkmaterials.org/.
What would your daemon be, if you had one?