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So they're (BBC, I assume) also filming The Ruby in the Smoke, with the girl who played Angel in "The Calcium Kid" and is now on "Doctor Who" (I know this because I catch the last few minutes before BSG, and she has a very distinctive mouth) as Sally Lockhart ::frets:: DO NO FUCK UP MY PHILIP PULLMAN, PEOPLE. Though I'm way more concerned about HDM. I'm just not convinced any studio will ever get The Amber Spyglass made, even if "The Golden Compass" adaptation ends up a huge success -- and it could; the market for epic fantasy is wide open, for reasons I don't need to tell you guys of all people, and there's some serious talent lined up there. But Spyglass...without spoiling anybody who might like to read the trilogy, it's not just controversial, it's flat-out subversive, and they're young adult novels and the movies will have to be promoted as children-focused and yeeeeah, no one will ever think Harry Potter is heretical again. Because Pullman actually is. I suppose they could sanitize it, but then I'd hate it wholeheartedly, and I seriously doubt Pullman would let them. Anyone know how that works? I mean, IMDB lists him under the writing credits (before Stoppard), but I don't know if that means he actually contributes to the screenplay or if he's sold the rights and they can do whatever they want, or what.

I love those books with a love that is deep and true, and I can only imagine that this is what LotR fans felt when Peter Jackson got the job.

I need an icon of Lyra and Iorek from the original hardcover...

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Regarding Billie Piper, she's really quite a good actress, so if she's doing a project, it'll probably be quality. (She was also a singer back in the 90s, when she was about 15 - she did the Women's Cup theme song and at least one other I remember vividly. But boy did she look different then!)

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I know I'm really late to this party, but. I stumbled across your journal in search of Heroes fic, and found this too, and it only had one comment and that is just sad and completely unfair to the awesomeness that is HDM. I have never read the Sally Lockhart books, but I plan to, and I am sure that Billie Piper will do a fabulous job as Sally because she's fabulous on Doctor Who.

I actually reread HDM over the summer *because* of DW (which I think you would really like since you like Heroes and Pullman and all that)-- if you don't want to be spoiled, skip past the rest of this paragraph, but the season finale of DW, Doomsday, is VERY reminiscent of HDM. Rose and the Doctor end up trapped in parallel Londons, and there's this "void stuff" which is JUST like Dust, only you see it with those 3-D glasses you sometimes get at movies and IMAX showings instead of the amber spyglass.

Regardless... I'm also anxious about the movie adaptations of HDM. As I mentioned, I reread it over the summer, and I was like "Wait... how is this a kids' book, again?" And that's just based on all the sex references. In terms of philosophy/theology, it's almost the anti-Narnia. *sigh* So much HDM love...

I've heard about the similarity between the DW episode and HDM -- I think on Wiki. It's really interesting; a writer had to have been a fan or something.

The anti-Narnia -- hee, yeah. And I love Narnia too, and there's a place for both stories. But not if they try to MAKE it into Narnia in film!

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