Dead? “Yes! Absolutely!” If something happened to him, there “would be expressions of the most heartfelt regrets, yet privately they would be saying, ‘Thank God.’” All things being equal, Pullman told me, New Line would prefer he were, well, the late author of The Golden Compass. Pullman - who’s previously tried to market the film by telling reporters, “I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief,” and “My books are about killing God” - thinks the film studio’s job would be easier if he were dead. Much to the obvious delight of New Line’s publicity department, The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin visited the novelist at his home near Oxford, England. The biggest challenge? Getting Pullman to STFU. The December issue of The Atlantic contains a lengthy piece on The Golden Compass, this holiday season’s most anticipated epic fantasy film about killing God, and the lengths to which New Line Cinema is going to scrub their $180 million movie of the more controversial elements of the book series (the His Dark Materials trilogy by atheist author Philip Pullman) on which it’s based. Photo: Getty Images, Courtesy of New Line Cinema
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