Now that's brave, part II

Let it be known that Hollywood's post-Passion courting of the "Christian market" won't get in the way of it displaying some good old fashion anti-religious sentiment, and in a kid's movie, no less. Chud reports:

[Eva] Green’s next project is also with a big studio, New Line, where she’ll play the witch Serafina Pekkala in The Golden Compass, based on the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy. Daniel Craig’s in that one too, playing the small role (this time) of Lord Asriel. The film has had a hard time getting off the ground, and at one point it was thought that the book’s overt anti-organized religion slant would be kept out of the film (which would really render the whole story moot), but Green assured me all that good stuff will be in the film. “I hope the studio will be brave enough and keep the darkness. But yeah, the Magisterium, the Church, is very present.”

Always nice to see such courage and openness from a movie studio. I think Jonathan Last already had the, erm, last word on this sort of "Hollywood bravery" though.