An update on the His Dark Materials movies
This is old, but I thought I would share anyway for those of you on my Friends List who are fans of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series. (for those who might not know what I'm talking about, in 2007, 'The Golden Compass' - the first of the series - made it to the big screen. There are two more books in the series; Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass')
The chance of the second and third movies ever getting to theaters is slim to none, which sucks because they are *amazing* stories.
The actor Sam Elliott, who starred in the 2007 adaptation of the first novel, Northern Lights (the film was called The Golden Compass), said earlier this week that books two and three were not being filmed due to a successful campaign by America's religious right. The Golden Compass grossed more than £230m around the world, but was less successful in America, where the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for a boycott on the grounds that Pullman's books introduced children to atheism.
That really ticks me off. We're supposed to be a free country here, with freedom of religion, or the freedom to *not* have a religion, and that freedom should extend to books and movies, too. Yet it always seems to be blocked by the fanatic Christians who are stuck in the dark ages.
Excuse me while I go seethe in a corner now.
The chance of the second and third movies ever getting to theaters is slim to none, which sucks because they are *amazing* stories.
The actor Sam Elliott, who starred in the 2007 adaptation of the first novel, Northern Lights (the film was called The Golden Compass), said earlier this week that books two and three were not being filmed due to a successful campaign by America's religious right. The Golden Compass grossed more than £230m around the world, but was less successful in America, where the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for a boycott on the grounds that Pullman's books introduced children to atheism.
That really ticks me off. We're supposed to be a free country here, with freedom of religion, or the freedom to *not* have a religion, and that freedom should extend to books and movies, too. Yet it always seems to be blocked by the fanatic Christians who are stuck in the dark ages.
Excuse me while I go seethe in a corner now.