Orlando Sentinel - His Dark Materials Movies by Rebecca Swain Vadnie
Miriam Liddle  |  by blogs.orlandosentinel.com. All rights reserved. 3.04 | 12:11

As you already know, we here at Shakespeare's Coffee can get pretty testy when Hollywood effs up on a book-to-movie translation.
So why do I have the same terrible feeling of dread about the adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass as I did about the disastrous version of The Queen of the Damned?
Oh yeah, because Nicole Kidman plays Mrs.

Coulter, Sam Elliot as Lee Scorsby and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel (?!).

. He looks like a little cuddly hedgehog!
I guess I always imagined Lord Asriel as Jason Isaacs-type, and Nicole Kidman looks too willowy and angelic with none of Mrs.

Coulter's crafty calculation. I haven't been this perplexed about casting since Stuart Townsend played Lestat (still haven't recovered from that one). Many readers enjoyed the Dark Materials trilogy -- though it's not without its faults -- so I would hope the films remain true to the complex spirit that made them so interesting.


Not that I'm holding my breath. I've been burned by H-wood before.

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Keywords: Dark Materials, Nicole Kidman, Lord Asriel
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