Eva Green as a witch queen was a no-brainer. As 11-year-old Lyra, Dakota Blue Richards was clever and charismatic without approaching precocity or insufferable smarm. One of the tragedies of the 2007 Golden Compass film’s failure is that the cast was so, so good across the board. 1) Good casting helps, but it’s not enough to carry a movie Here are three lessons His Dark Materials can take away from its last adaptation attempt. So this new miniseries will be a shot at redemption for a beloved series of books that had all the tools for a successful adaptation but failed to translate that to blockbuster success. The BBC has certainly poured some money into the talent pool, with boldface names galore already signed on to the project, according to Deadline: Tom Hooper, of Les Misérables and The King’s Speech, will direct, Logan breakout Dafne Keen will star as Lyra, and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda will take a supporting role as Lee Scoresby.īut if we learned anything from the last big-budget adaptation of His Dark Materials - 2007’s The Golden Compass, which famously flopped at the box office - it’s that pouring in money and signing major names to the cast and crew isn’t enough to ensure a successful adaptation. His Dark Materials, the celebrated fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, is getting a second chance to do a screen adaptation right.ĭeadline reports that the BBC is producing a big-budget TV miniseries adaptation of the first volume of the trilogy, The Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in the US).
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