So, Earthsea’s got a token black guy in a world that’s supposed to have a token white chick.
Oh well.
And now we have Pullman’s work getting savaged, too. For fear of wingnuts.
Wingnuts. All twelve of them.
What the fuck is genre fiction supposed to be all about? Why write this crap, when it’s just gonna get whitewashed and hacked up into regurgitated putty? What’s the point?
God is cut from film of Dark Materials
By Sam Coates
THE Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, in which two children do battle with an evil, all-powerful church, is being rewritten to remove anti-religious overtones.
Chris Weitz, the director, has horrified fans by announcing that references to the church are likely to be banished in his film. Meanwhile the “Authority”, the weak God figure, will become “any arbitrary establishment that curtails the freedom of the individual”.
Like a Church that says having same-sex attractions, having sex outside of marriage, or reading certain books is EVIL?
