HIS DARK MATERIALS starring James McAvoy, Dafne Keen (2019?) 0

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Well, they finally got Professor Xavier and X-23 together again. 

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HBO’s Game of Thrones is coming to an end this weekend, and once it’s over, the network will have to figure out what its next big hit will be. One possibility is its forthcoming adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. You can get a glimpse of that today: HBO just released the first real trailer for the upcoming fantasy series.

 

Pullman’s fantasy trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglassas well as his ongoing sequel trilogy, which started with The Book of Dust in 2017) is certainly epic in scale. Set in an alternate world where one’s soul manifests as a shape-shifting animal called a Daemon, it follows a young girl named Lyra Belacqua (played in the series by Logan star Dafne Keen) who travels to the Arctic to find her friend Roger. He (and other children in her version of Oxford) has been kidnapped by The Church, which is experimenting on them as it studies the nature of an elemental particle called Dust. That particle appears to be the stuff that imbues people with consciousness, and that’s something that the Church has deemed heresy. Lyra’s journey brings her on a considerable adventure across worlds and lands her in the midst of a massive war being waged across existence.

 

The new trailer builds on what we’ve seen of the show so far. The ambiance looks to be quite a bit more creepy than the 2007 feature film, and it shows off the Daemons and other sentient polar bears in Lyra’s world, which we didn’t really see in the teaser the BBC released earlier this year. As is to be expected, the trailer looks as though this first season of the series will largely adapt the first installment of Pullman’s trilogy, The Golden Compass.

 

The series originated with the BBC four years ago as an eight-part miniseries from the same company that produced Doctor Who. Last fall, the BBC announced that it had renewed the series for a second season and that it was bringing on HBO as a co-producer. That makes a bit of sense: HBO has a solid history of creating fantasy shows, and it’s looking to fill the void that Game of Thrones will leave behind after this weekend.

 

Edited May 18, 2019 by Bosco685

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Lyra Silvertongue is a rolemodel.

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12 hours ago, TupennyConan said:

Lyra Silvertongue is a rolemodel.

Look at you going all "I know this material'. 

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If they get this anywhere close to the source material - unlike the movie version - it will be special.

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His Dark Materials has released the season 2 trailer as part of Comic Con @ Home and it looks like the story will continue to be filled with dangers and adventures in new worlds.

 

His Dark Materials is a HBO/BBC adaptation of the trilogy of fantasy novels written by Phillip Pullman. The first season of the series covered the first novel, “The Golden Compass,” centering around an orphaned girl named Lyra (Dafne Keen). In Lyra’s world all humans have animal companions, called daemons, which are actually manifestations of the person’s soul. Lyra Belacqua an orphan and her daemon, Pantalaimon aka Pan (voiced by Kit Connor), are raised by the scholars at Jordan College, Oxford. One of these scholars is Lord Asriel Belacqua (James McAvoy), Lyra’s uncle, and a polar explorer who is researching the mysterious Dust. 

 

After he leaves on another expedition she is sent to live with another explorer, with ties to the Magisterium, Mrs. Coulter (Ruth Wilson). Lyra’s friend Roger goes missing and she is determined to find hm. In her search for her missing friend, Lyra uncovers a twisted plot involving the Magisterium, learns secrets about her past and parentage, is introduced to fantastical people and creatures (including an armored polar bear), and will learn more about the Dust and multiverse. The first season closes with a multiverse bridge being opened which Lyra enters after Lord Asriel.  

 

 

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Season 3 is coming out.

 

 

[BCarter27]

Season 2 was very creaky plotting-wise despite the great production design and directing. Ruth Wilson is a force of nature, though!

This show is further proof that dark fantasy is a very difficult genre to pull off on TV... It suffers from a focus on a specific demographic. It's too dreary for kids. It's too childish for adults.

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[Beige]

I frequently found it difficult to understand what Daphne Keen was actually saying.

She was great in Logan - in this - not so much.

 

Saying that - Millie Bobby Brown took a while to adjust from a 'kids' role to an 'adult' role, so hopefully as she gets older,her enunciation improves.