Philip Pullman interviewed by Lizo Mzimba

BBC's Lizo Mzimba interviews His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman on his thoughts about his books being adapted into movies, and what the future holds. Featuring the impressive backdrop of Exeter College in Oxford.

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[pampers92]

i loved the books the films great i understand great parts of it were different but its impossible to fit every aspect into one film

[SNKTHX2000]

Pullman is a genius, i've never enjoyed a series of novels so much in my life.

[siliconchipped]

you cannot have a human daemon ..

[F6JRW]

His dark Matriels are the best book of the book.

[mutanyagwa]

preach! preach!

[kwackajak]

when we read we visualise

a picture is worth a thousand words

i now wish to read the book

i am a child of 53

so maybe my Daemon is Lyra

[beatisagg]

Pullman says that the introduction of the series to film was softened to allow the public to ease into it. He also states that he wants no part of watering down of the second or third stories and that the first film includes all necessary scenes to justifiably recreate the second and third stories on film. That being said, i agree, the movie seemed a total disaster.

[raikiri23]

movies are often times worse than their written counterparts

[supercyle]

Even though I'm not a young child, the previews actually led me to pick up and read the Golden Compass (before I saw the film) as well as the following two books in the trilogy, and I know others who have done the same as a result.

I do admit that the movie was not as good as the book, but it's not an abomination. It was actually one of the better adaptations I've seen. If you want a book-to-film abomination, read Everything is Illuminated, then watch the movie. What a tragedy!

[rommelhower]

The movie was an abomination. The making of this amazing book into a movie, in itself, has robbed children of the free will to create and imagine. It provides young viewers with a prepackaged product of capitalism, strategically designed to generate income -- not to feed the imagination. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Homer, Dr. Seuss, and now Pullman are being appropriated by Hollywood. This is equivalent to book-burning, only worse. Philip Pullman should be fed to snow leopards.