HisDarkMaterials.org
HisDarkMaterials.org is one of the leading His Dark Materials websites, including information about The Golden Compass movie, the book trilogy, extensive fan art galleries, photographs of Philip Pullman, and related visual resources. It also contains a dæmon name generator, an active chatroom, a His Dark Materials role playing game, and an interactive encyclopedia. News is updated daily, with members being able to discuss news items. The website is also home to Cittàgazze.net, the world's largest His Dark Materials forum.
Movies
The Golden Compass
Books
Overview
The Golden Compass / Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra’s Oxford
The Book of Dust
Features
The Golden Compass World Premiere
Cannes Filmfestival 2007
Alethiometer
Cartography
News Archive
On the Marionette Theatre
June 25, 2003 in Other
According to Pullman, one of the greates influences in His Dark Materials is the essay "On the Marionette Theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist. As Pullman says in his interview with Amazon: "What I say in 1300 pages, Kleist manages to do in 3." There's even a part in Northern Lights/The Golden Compass that was almost literally copied from this essay. Can you spot it?
Part 2 of the Amazon interview in which Philip Pullman discourses on Dust, the first couple (the biblical rather than the presidential pair), and which of his several worlds he'd like to inhabit. He also poses the possibility of a prequel and much, much more.
In a transatlantic chat with Amazon.com's Kerry Fried, Philip Pullman discusses the completion of His Dark Materials and a mistake that C.S. Lewis really shouldn't have made. He also offers up his favorite characters, major and minor, discourses on whether or not you can choose your ideal dæmon (sorry, folks, not a chance), and dwells on the key turning point in human evolution (let's just say that it involves a certain serpent).
ACHUKA interview with Philip Pullman
June 25, 2003 in Philip Pullman
This is the ACHUKA interview with Philip Pullman. They interviewed him in December 1998. Enjoy!
A Labour of Loathing - Peter Hitchens on the Worship of Philip Pullman
June 25, 2003 in Philip Pullman
Whatever the atheist equivalent of canonisation is, they are doing it to the children’s author Philip Pullman. The full power of secular liberalism is being deployed to magnify his glorious name. Last year he won the Whitbread Prize, normally reserved for adult authors. Now Radio Four is handing over three of its precious Saturday afternoons for an adaptation of his trilogy, His Dark Materials. Nicholas Hytner is preparing Pullman’s works for the stage of the National Theatre, and Hollywood is hoping to do for him what it did for Tolkien. In early March he will be beatified through an interview with Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show. Why is he suddenly so important?
This is The Most Dangerous Author in Britain
June 25, 2003 in Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is being hailed as the new C. S. Lewis after being awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for his latest novel aimed at children: The Amber Spyglass. The judges described it as visionary, but PETER HITCHENS reveals that the author appears to have his own sinister agenda…
His Dark Materials Summary
June 24, 2003 in His Dark Materials Books
Roy wrote another great summary, this time one of His Dark Materials. Click below to read it!
Sally Lockhart Summary
June 23, 2003 in Other
Roy wrote an excellent summary of the Sally Lockhart triliogy. I know, it isn't His Dark Materials, but they're excellent books written by Philip Pullman.
First Part of The His Dark Materials Screenplay Finished!
June 10, 2003 in His Dark Materials Movies
It seems that the screenplay for the first installment of The His Dark Materials movie trilogy (The Golden Compass/ Northern Lights) is finished.