Monday, February 25, 2019

Dust 2 Dust

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I've been reorganizing my bookshelves for what seems like weeks now (it seems like weeks because it has been weeks -- I have a lotta goddamned books!) and yesterday I was situating my pile of Philip Pullman books and thought to myself I sure would like to read the His Dark Materials books again. I meant to when The Book of Dust (the first book in a new trilogy that overlaps with the original threesome) came out in 2017 and that didn't happen -- perhaps I should make a plan of it? Before the next book (which I just learned via Wikipedia will be called The Secret Commonwealth) comes out? Or, since that doesn't have a precise release date yet, perhaps before the BBC miniseries comes out this year? We don't have an exact date for that just yet either but we do have a teaser trailer, just released yesterday! Watch:
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As we reported when they were cast James McAvoy's playing Lord Asriel, aka Daniel Craig in the failed big-screen adaptation, while Ruth Wilson is tackling the Nicole Kidman part -- I loved the original cast in 2007 (sigh, Eva Green as Serafina Pekkala!) but Chris Weitz and the scaredy-cat American studio messed that movie all up, so here's to hoping that the BBC knows not to gut the entire atheistic point of the books. Or else!


3 comments:

Ryan T. said...

JAMES MCAVOY is so hot. That's it. That's the whole comment.

It was great seeing him at the Academy Awards. Also being hot.

Adrian C said...

the cast of the film was so good, but i do have faith that the series will be good. mostly so we get to the second book. Will was my favorite character!

apparitionspet said...

I cried when I was a teenager and the movie was announced, and I cried again today - these books saved my childhood. Cannot wait!