{"id":2199,"date":"2006-06-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/his-dark-materials-gets-a-release-date\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T13:00:00","slug":"his-dark-materials-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/his-dark-materials-gets-a-release-date.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;His Dark Materials&#8217; gets a release date"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/goldencompass-ny.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/goldencompass-ny.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">This might be old news to some people, but in the handful of posts that I have made on the directors coming and going from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/newsbites-materials-saint-of-911.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i> (the first installment in Philip Pullman\u2019s \u2018His Dark Materials\u2019 trilogy), I don\u2019t recall ever noticing, let alone mentioning, whether the film had a release date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently a release date <i>has<\/i> been set \u2014 despite what seems like a problematic pre-production!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aint-it-cool.com\/display.cgi?id=23657\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a> posted several pictures today from the New York License Show, including this one, and it seems the film is set to come out in 17 months.<\/p>\n<p>And when you think about it, that\u2019s pretty much the only time the studio <i>could<\/i> release the film \u2014 at least if they want to avoid clashing with other British-fantasy franchises.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/harry-potter-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harry Potter<\/a> movies are coming out every year-and-a-half now, so the next one is due in the summer of 2007; and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/oh-dear-lord-no.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prince Caspian<\/a><\/i>, the next <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Narnia<\/a> movie, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr\/film\/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002503766\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">recently moved<\/a> to the summer of 2008.  And then the next Harry Potter movie might very well come out the following Christmas or thenabouts.  So, if we\u2019re sticking to the lucrative summer and winter seasons, that would leave just winter 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/lookingcloser.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeffrey Overstreet<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be old news to some people, but in the handful of posts that I have made on the directors coming and going from The Golden Compass (the first installment in Philip Pullman\u2019s \u2018His Dark Materials\u2019 trilogy), I don\u2019t recall ever noticing, let alone mentioning, whether the film had a release date. 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