The question in the title isn't rhetorical! Pippa has an answer for KJ about why Phillip Pullman's book goes by so many names, as well as info about the movie adaptation and the HBO series... and all the ways those adaptations went astray.

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Cover art by Jess Rubio. Music by Isabel Forden.

 

Sources:

THE DARK SIDE OF NARNIA by Philip Pullman: https://web.archive.org/web/20010628221443/http://riff.hiof.no/~steinabl/PULLMANLEW.HTML

THE GOLDEN COMPASS MOVIE WHAT WENT WRONG by Andrew Blair for Den of Geek: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-golden-compass-movie-what-went-wrong/

WHERE DID 'THE GOLDEN COMPASS' GO ASTRAY? from Vulture's The Take (no byline): https://www.vulture.com/2007/12/golden_compass_scripts.html

HOW HOLLYWOOD SAVED GOD by Hanna Rosin for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/how-hollywood-saved-god/306444/

Philip Pullman’s thoughts on the HBO series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oce5gKgdPFM&t=75s

Kathleen Crawford's interview with Casting Networks: https://www.castingnetworks.com/news/how-all-of-us-strangers-casting-director-kahleen-crawford-turned-people-watching-into-a-thriving-career/

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS FINALLY GETTING TOLD WITHOUT (MUCH) BACKLASH by Nathan Smith for SyFy: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/his-dark-materials-golden-compass-religion-church-hbo-movie