Weitz returned and then remained with the project until the end. In August 2005 a new director - Anand Tucker - was appointed, but in May 2006 he suddenly departed from the project due to reported "differences in creative opinion".
In December of that year, after he revealed in an interview the necessity of toning down certain religions aspects of HDM in order to placate New Line and get the film to cinema, Weitz withdrew from the project, citing, "technical challenges." Source Weitz famously likes to write his own screenplays. As a further blow to fans, Stoppard was dropped when Weitz was brought in as director in 2004. Weitz was best known for his involvement with the cheap slapstick and innuendo of the American Pie series. And then, New Line named Chris Weitz as director. On the other hand, Pullman himself remained distant from the production process. Another positive was the news that in 2003 Sir Tom Stoppard, celebrated UK playwright, wit and intellectual, had been commissioned to write the screenplay. On the positive side, production was being handled by New Line Cinema which had allowed Peter Jackson enough freedom to turn the Lord of the Rings trilogy into three massively successful movies. Prior to the movie's release in December 2007, the signs were not good. While Dune, Eragon and The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising are at the other end of the spectrum. The Lord of the Rings trilogy stands out as the pinnacle of such adaptations, followed closely by the Jurassic Park franchise and various re-makes of the Narnia series. On the whole, adaptations from fantasy books to films have been fairly succesful. The fantasy element comes from the witches and the talking bears, a race of armoured mercenaries. The range of locations varies from an Oxford College to a socialite's house in London and the drowned fields of a misty fenland, up to the far, frozen north.The characters range from the heroine, a girl on the cusp of puberty to a cruel, ruthless, yet fabulously glamorous woman. It is set in a world that is quite similar to our own, but with important differences, which I do not propose to explore here. The book is a complicated story with a wide cast of characters. To begin, it is a kidult fantasy nominally aimed at children, but with appeal to a large slice of the adult population. Review in a sentence: The casting and most of the acting is first class and the adaptation is better than expected, but there are serious flaws.Īt the time of writing, IMDB reported a rating of 6.7/10 from around 9000 votes and Rotten Tomatoes recorded a rating of 43% fresh, giving it officially a 'rotten' rating, from 162 reviews.
This review covers the movie, as there are already plenty of reviews of the book here and here It is the first part of a trilogy known collectively as His Dark Materials (HDM) in which the latter two books are The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. In the US, the title is The Golden Compass. In the UK the book is titled Northern Lights.
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The Golden Compass is the movie adaptation of a book by British author Philip Pullman. Certification: Philippines:PG-13 / Switzerland:10 / Singapore:PG / Finland:K-11 / Canada:PG / Canada:G (Quebec) / Taiwan:PG-12 / South Korea:All / Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) / Malaysia:U / USA:PG-13 / UK:PG / Sweden:11 / Ireland:12A
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