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[jekylljuice]

I'm now about half way through the Amber Spyglass, the last in the Dark Materials trilogy. Thus far, I'm finding it nothing less than an enjoyable continuation of the previous two novels, though I suppose there's still time for Mr. Pullman to spring a few unpleasant surprises on me.

Originally Posted by AerostarMonk

They filmed the last part of the book. The studio cut it out for fear of turning off audiences cut it out. What's funny is had they actually had left well enough alone and let Chris Weitz go with his original vision the movie probably would've been quite successful.

Yeah, I recently saw the trailer for the Golden Compass again, and I noticed that it contained a few brief glimpses of the excised climax. For what it's worth, my sympathies for the adaptation have increased in some fields. At least they did a good enough job with the casting.

From what I can make out, TGC did reasonably well overseas, so it's still up in the air as to whether further adaptations will be considered viable. Weitz claims that if it goes ahead, he hopes to restore the deleted conclusion and plans to be a lot less compromising with the remaining novels.