{"id":1161,"date":"2007-12-15T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-missing-ending-more-bits-leak-out\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T13:28:00","slug":"the-missing-ending-more-bits-leak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-missing-ending-more-bits-leak-out.html","title":{"rendered":"The missing ending &#8212; more bits leak out."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">The last three chapters of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/his-dark-materials-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i> were cut from the film at a very, very late stage in post-production \u2014 so late, in fact, that bits of it had already been included in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/i-hope-its-great-film-and-i-hope-it.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the trailers<\/a>, as I\u2019ve noted here before, and also in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000R32IDW\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">video game<\/a>, which came out only a week or two ago.  Here is a clip from the game:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtplnBb-dpM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtplnBb-dpM<\/a><br>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtplnBb-dpM\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/09\/the-golden-compass-movie-the-official-movie-quiz-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Monica Edinger<\/a> at the Educating Alice blog lists several references to the deleted ending that were included in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1407103245\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Golden Compass: The Official Movie Quiz Book<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last three chapters of The Golden Compass were cut from the film at a very, very late stage in post-production \u2014 so late, in fact, that bits of it had already been included in the trailers, as I\u2019ve noted here before, and also in the video game, which came out only a week or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The missing ending -- more bits leak out.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The last three chapters of The Golden Compass were cut from the film at a very, very late stage in post-production -- so late, in fact, that bits of it\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-missing-ending-more-bits-leak-out.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The missing ending -- more bits leak out.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The last three chapters of The Golden Compass were cut from the film at a very, very late stage in post-production -- so late, in fact, that bits of it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-missing-ending-more-bits-leak-out.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-12-15T13:28:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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