This article gives an interesting summary of what happened to Stoppard and the His Dark Materials Movies.
The venerable playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the cleverest and wittiest of British dramatists, has been quietly dropped from a major Hollywood film project.
Stoppard, whose film credits include the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love, and Enigma and The Russia House, was commissioned to write the first draft for the keenly awaited film of Philip Pullman
The script ended early in the second book, and Stoppard included a treatment for the second and third films. Ominously, as it turns out, there was no director on board at the time.
Stoppard, whose stage credits include Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, received an unexpected telephone call in May from the Cannes Film Festival. He was told that Chris Weitz, the director of the lightweight About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant, and American Pie, was to direct the Dark Materials films.
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