‘His Dark Materials’ Screenwriter
Jack Thorne Compares
Lyra Belacqua to Greta Thunberg
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Speaking at the launch of the big-budget HBO/BBC dramatization , writer Jack Thorne compared the novels’ overbearing and all-powerful religious authority to the British government response to pro-environmental Extinction Rebellion protesters,
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who have recently been campaigning across London and causing disruption in order to raise awareness of climate change.
“We live in scary times. And... there’s an obvious story to be told, and that’s … And you know, Greta Thunberg… Lyra…there are quite a lot of similarities there.”
