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His Dark Materials: Created by Jack Thorne. With Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson. A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.
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HBO and BBC present His Dark Materials, a new original series based on the global bestsellers, premiering Monday, November 4 on HBO. #HBO #HisDarkMaterialsSu...
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Series 1 is based upon the events of Northern Lights and follows the story of Lyra Belacqua on her quest in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, where she encounters witches, Panserbjørne like Iorek Byrnison, gyptians, and aëronauts whilst finding out about Dust. It introduces Will Parry and the troubles his mother has been having since his...
Lead roles
1. Ariyon Bakare as Lord Boreal 2. Dafne Keen as Lyra Silvertongue 3. Simone Kirby as Mary Malone 4. James McAvoy as Lord Asriel 5. Lin-Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby 6. Andrew Scott as John Parry 7. Amir Wilson as William Parry 8. Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter
Asriel's forces
1. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Ogunwe 2. Jonathan Aris as Commander Roke 3. Sian Clifford as Agent Salmakia 4. Aisha May Hunteas Asriel's Soldier 5. Catriona Jamesas Ogunwe's Soldier
1. Wader Briggs as Archangel Alarbus 2. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Balthamos 3. Simon Harrison as Baruch 4. Alex Hassell as Metatron 5. Chipo Chung as Xaphania
Film adaptation
1. Main article: The Golden Compass (film) After the success of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the His Dark Materials books, which were published between 1995 and 2000, were optioned. This led to the development of the 2007 film, The Golden Compass. However, the film removed some of the key areas of the book, like references to religion and the Holy Church, which Chris Weitz(director of the film) blamed for the shortcomings. Moreover, the Catholic Church called for a boycott; Sam Elliott...
Development
Philip Pullman, in a 2012 interview for Mother Jones, was interested in giving His Dark Materials another shot, this time as a television series.The BBC, in November 2015, publicly announced plans to adapt the book series into a television series in association with Bad Wolf and New Line Cinema (with HBO joining later). Pullman was named the series' executive producer along with Deborah Forte.
Pre-production
Pre-production was originally planned for autumn 2016, with the project announced in 2015, but casting was only in the process of finalisation in early 2018.The show was originally said to cover 5 series but it was later confirmed that each series would cover one book.
Trailers
The first teaser of the first series was released by the BBC on 24 February 2019 with subsequent trailers following on 17th May, 19th July (part of the San Diego Comic Con panel), 25th August, 3rd October, and the final one on 21st October. Short clips from each episode was uploaded onto the BBC Programmes website prior to its broadcast. For Series 2, the first trailer was released on 23rd July (part of the San Diego Comic Con At Home) and a second and third on 28th August (one by the BBC and...
Broadcast
On 18 July, 2019, the show hosted a panel at San Diego Comic Con where an Autumn 2019 release date for Series 1 was announced and an extended trailer revealed. A preview of the show in London was premiered by the BFI on 15 October 2019and another in Cardiff the following day. The first series was split into episodes of 8 each roughly an hour long. The first episode, Lyra's Jordan, aired on 3 November 2019 in the UK on BBC One and 4 November internationally; however Dafne Keen's mother reveale...
Home media
Region 2 DVD, Blu-ray, and steelbook editions of the first series were posted on Amazon UK in late 2019 and were then published on 27 January, 2020. All three copies included all eight episodes, four art cards, and several non-exclusive bonus features about the making of the series: Introducing His Dark Materials, The Daemons: His Dark Materials, Building His Dark Materials, Dressing His Dark Materials, and Adapting His Dark Materials(which were made available on the BBC website prior to the...
His Dark Materials on the Internet Movie DatabaseHis Dark Materials Series 1 and Series 2on Bad Wolf's siteHis Dark Materials is a fantasy drama television series based on the trilogy of novels by Philip Pullman. It is produced by Bad Wolf and New Line Productions, for BBC One and HBO, with the latter handling international distribution. [1]
Nov 1, 2022 · The network just released a trailer for the third and final season of His Dark Materials, which premieres on Dec. 5 with two back-to-back episodes. The last batch of episodes is based on Philip Pullman 's final novel in this trilogy, The Amber Spyglass.
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