I’ve been meaning to post this for a few days now:

Tom Stoppard is adapting a script for Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass for New Line Cinema.

How cool is that?

(If you’re as cooled out by this as I was, and you’re wondering how on earth they’re going to pull it off, there’s a rather amusing ‘what-if’ scene about the pitch etc here. And the fan site Bridge To The Stars is pretty decent all around.)