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Nicole Kidman is going to be in Philip Pullman's The Northern Lights??!?!?!

*Bawls in a corner*

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against her.

I just don't feel that Pullman's book did/should contain the glamour she would bring to the movie.

I don't remember much of the book, having read it somewhere around the first year of high school. I remembered that a lot of things flew over my head, a lot of very mature...very subversive...messages hidden in the story about a child adventurer.

And so I remember a story not with the earnest fun of a children's book, but much more weighted and heavier.

What is it with Americans and their insistence on changing British book titles? The Northern Lights, evocative of the beautiful aurora over our North Pole, sounds so much more tender than The Golden Compass ==;

Fantasy book adaptations are better done with little known actors ==;

I don't like the fact that the cast consists of Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig...and that they should head the list, when the main character (for this book) is in fact the little girl called Lyra.

At least Kidman plays a villainess for once...even if a seductive one...

Hmm, and the trilogy again contains a Will...good old earnest Will. LOL.

I should really read the books again instead of summaries, but wow....there's a lot of Chinese/Buddhist/Taoist things in some of the underlying fantasy elements, even if it's predominated by a biblical hierarchy.

And for a children's story, the ending is surprisingly unhappy ~~; (Not tragic in the Carmody way, just...unhappy.)