As a political or thematic analogy, a third rail topic is something considered so dangerous and controversial that engaging with it would prove catastrophic. “That was kind of a third rail eventually as far as the studio was concerned.”įor locomotive railways, the third rail carries the electric current, so if a person touches it, they’d be electrocuted. “In The Golden Compass there was a kind of critique to a certain attitude towards religion,” Weitz said. In an interview for Inverse about his then-new movie Operation Finale earlier this year, Chris Weitz spoke about the issues he faced writing and directing The Golden Compass.
You should know it’s not his fault, and that things are looking much brighter for the new His Dark Materials TV adaption from BBC and HBO.
The writer and director of the maligned 2007 Golden Compass movie knows exactly what went wrong with that adaptation.
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