Farewell, Iorek.

About a Boy helmer Chris Weitz is off His Dark Materials, apparently on his own cognizance. "It will be an extraordinary film, but at this point in my life I am not the right director to bring it to pass...the technical challenges of making such an epic are more than I can undertake at this point." If so, bully for him for realizing it...but let's hope hack directors of the Ratner-W.S. Anderson mold are kept well away from Pullman's trilogy.