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[pearwaldorf]

Daniel Craig to play Lord Asriel in Golden Compass movie

I can kinda see it, but to me he is always going to be The Unnamed One in Layer Cake. What amuses me most is the description of the book in the BBC article: It revolves around a young girl, Lyra, who travels to the far north to save her best friend.

Along the way, she encounters shape-shifting creatures, witches and a variety of other-worldly characters in parallel universes.

Uh, yeah. It's kind of like how Hamlet's a play about a guy whose uncle married his mother. And there's a play and stuff. Yeah.

Bonus: Powell's interview with Phillip Pullman

Comments

[stellated.livejournal.com]

Oh em freakin' gee, I had no idea there was even going to be a Golden Compass movie. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

And I can see him as Lord Asriel, I think -- he's got such an arrogant face, which is the one quality I always associate with Asriel, so it works for me.

[starstealingirl.livejournal.com]

Except that is going to be what the movie's about, since they're TAKING THE THEOLOGICAL BITE OUT OF THE STORY, THE SELLOUT BASTARDS.

...not that I'm bitter, or anything.