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Announced on Radio 5 that Ridley Scott is to direct the "Dark Materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
They didn't say if it was just the 1st one or all 3 together, as is the wont of late.

Excellent, excellent books and Ridley can do sci-fi very well. Just hope the scripts are up to scratch.
I want to see Iorek Byernson.

I love these books and I will be very upset if the get ruined. They should make for a good film, but I said the same about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Of course, but as I've said before, its nice to see someone else's vision in a different medium.

I was given the first book as a present, thoroughly enjoyed it. I got the second when it came out, found it hard to follow - maybe because it had been so long between reading that and the first. Haven't read The Amber Spyglass yet.

I doubt it'll make a good film, because it relies on imagination to make it work. Which is why I prefer books to films anyway, it's a lot more fun when it's the way you want it to be.

And don't forget castration, and I'm faily sure "cutting of the rose" is mentioned in there somewhere.

When these charming subjects popped up I though, ”Had on, these are classed as *childrens* books”. Which they are, in the best sense. Unpleasant in parts, full of wonderment in others.

Oh, and the Daemons are a fantastically imaginative literary device.

They'll have to do them as three separate movies not only to do the source justice, but because every Hollywood exec now has a taste for getting multiple release revenue. Queue Paul Thomas Anderson seeing his next movie cut into four snappy 90 minute segments.

Jah, you can't describe them without making them stupid.
I thought "Pfffft, Harry Potter" until I started to read it.

Trepanning, child-murder, daemons, armoured bears, gypsies, angels at war, vampire ghost things, Tartars...you simply cannot begin to explain without making it sound trite and all magic dragons fantasy crap.

3 of the most intelligent, well crafted, imaginative books I've discovered by accident and glad I did.

Indeed. The description there makes them sound absolulute crepe, and before I started reading them told my father (who owns the series) "Oh, these sound excellent" in a sarcastic voice.

Turns out they are the most intelligent childrens / young adult books I've read, and should be considered as classics IMHO.

The whole armoured bears and witches thing make perfect sense in the context of the books.

Hmmm, I've just finished "Against A Dark Background" a few moments ago, I think I'll reread the trilogy.

Bane wrote:
> Haven't read them. What are they about
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Ah....they start off with a girl at a university learning that her Uncle is exploring somewhere, she gets involved and goes off in pursuit of her mate Roger who has been stolen by child kidnappers.
It then turns into between-dimensions worlds with spectres, armoured bears, witches and ends with a war on God and his angels and an alternate world peopled by weird elephant things that zoom about on tree-nuts.

Impossible to explain, but stunningly imaginative and entertaining.

Cool. A rumor thats became true.

Excellent books. Love 'em to bits.

I did hear however that it was to be animated. Lets hope its live action.

Haven't read them. What are they about?