A new go at His Dark Materials

[Skybird]

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191025-why-his-dark-materials-is-the-fantasy-epic-for-our-times

Have read the books, found them quite good. First attempt to turn them into a movie flopped in the cinemas, for they left out the complexity and the criticism of institutional religion and turned a complex story into a quite shallow piece of not-fish-not-meat. That the BBC is involved in the effort now and that it is not a purely US-company-led project, may help to safeguard against the production once again, like the first time, being pushed by religious fundamentalists into a harmless direction by noisy lobbying.

Whether it will stand the test of comparing it to GoT, as the article does, remains to be seen. Its last but not least a question of budget.

[Jimbuna]

Can't see it being as good as GoT but each down to their own.

[Skybird]

Such projects of turnign certain books into movies, can go terribly wrong. The article mentions Dune, I would add Gormenbgahst as well, whcih was done by the BBC. I found it terrible, and was angry, for the first two novels by Peake are amongst my absolutely most loved books ever. Now I do not "love" the novels by Pullmann, just found them good, okay, but they have boith the chance for telling a real great and complex narration - or flopping once again by realising them as somethign to small and little, while the novel indeed speaks of something much bigger.



We will see.