On October 9, 2007, Weitz revealed that the final 3 chapters from "Northern Lights" had been moved to the film's potential sequel, "The Subtle Knife", in order to provide "the most promising conclusion to the first film and the best possible beginning to the second," though he also said less than a month later that there had been "tremendous marketing pressure" to create "an upbeat ending." (The "San Francisco Chronicle" found this "truncated" ending abrupt.) Author Pullman publicly supported these changes, saying that "every film has to make changes to the story that the original book tells—not to change the outcome, but to make it fit the dimensions and the medium of film." In addition to removing the novel's unsettling ending, the film reverses the order in which Lyra travels to Bolvangar, the Gobbler's outpost, and then Svalbard, the armoured bears' kingdom. (Neither deviation from the book features in Scholastic Publishing's "The Golden Compass: The Story of the Movie" novelisation.) In July 2009, Weitz told a Comic Con audience that the film had been "recut by Line, and my experience with it ended being quite a terrible one"; he also told "Time" magazine that he had felt that by "being faithful to the book I was working at odds with the studio." In 2011, Pullman told an audience at the British Humanist Association annual conference that he was also disappointed by this decision, and hoped that a director's cut of the film would be released some day including the footage cut by New Line.