Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 07:41:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: His Dark Materials
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I guess it isn't that surprising, but I can't imagine
how they still make the film.  I can see them toning
it down, but not removing it completely.

Neil

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> from Publishers Lunch:
>
> Hollywood's Vision of Dark Materials Irks Some Fans
> Chris Weitz, the director of the film version of
> Philip Pullman's
> His Dark Materials books, "has horrified fans by
> announcing
> that references to the church are likely to be
> banished in his
> film," the Times reports.
> Pullman's agent Caradoc King says, "You have to
> recognize
> that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush's
> America."
> Times