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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 3546269" data-attributes="member: 4607">I've been looking forward to this one since I read the book ...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I think Nicole Kidman is going to do a great job in her role.I also suspect that, due to the subject matter, you're going to see a s**t storm of controversy from the religious right, unless they're REALLY careful about how they market it and how much of the overall plot they give out in this first movie, or tweak the plot to make it less controversial.I'll spoiler my concerns for those that haven't read the Phillip Pullman Dark Materials books yet (and if you haven't, you should)[spoiler]In the final installment, it's revealed that the fabric of reality is unraveling in part because "God" is reduced to a frail, comatose relic, being kept alive artificially to support the political ambitions of his Archangels.  The adult characters, it turns out, are part of a revolutionary front working to overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven, and replace it with a Republic of Heaven.   The main character takes god off "life-support" and lets him die, sending his essence back into the cosmos.  This is a very general simplification of what's going on, but you can see where it might ruffle some feathers.  Similar plot in Dogma, only Dogma was intended as a tongue-in-cheek comedy, and still got heavily protested...[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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