HBO's His Dark Materials TV series: news about distribution, full trailer, release date, etc.

Break the Tokay, TV adaptation of His Dark Materials has completed its stellar distribution.

Thanks to the BBC, which has HBO on board to distribute the series around the world, Philip Pullman's clbadic trilogy of British novels will leave for the screen for the first time, following the 2007 film The Golden Compbad, who does not cope as well. criticism. But will this new creation offset the incursion of Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman in the epic fantasy, the unpublished suites of the movie leaving the hero Lyra (literally) in the air?

Our readings at the Alethiometer seem good up to now, with James McAvoy, Logan's X23 (Dafne Keen) and Amir Wilson in the role of Will Parry. I do not know what his dark land refers to? This guide is for you and for those of us who are looking forward to visiting a parallel Oxford again.

Dark what?

Its dark material looks complicated – and that's it. Pullman drew the title of his trilogy from a John Milton poem's books – another work presenting major themes on religious divinities – but let's not go too far into this rabbit terrier, with the l & # 39; This is the basic plot of the first Northern Lights novel that follows Lyra as she tries to save her best friend Roger from the Gobblers, perverse people uprooting children in an icy fate.

Trailer

"You once asked me what was wrong." While the BBC's first teaser (which you can see below) contained only snippets to actually tease us of what the characters look like, this HBO trailer looks just like the fur of the Ermine of Pan. It also contains a dialogue, which is exciting because it addresses some of the most important topics in novels, including the idea of ​​"evil". It could refer to Dust, a great concept that, as Lord Asriel of McAvoy suggests in the trailer, is "better not to understand", to discover the unfolding of the series or to read the Wikipedia page about it .

Next to that, Ruth Wilson's Coulter tells Lyra, "It's time to choose a camp." This disturbing advice could foreshadow subsequent events that the movie did not cover, including battles on the scale of a parallel universe. But yes, it's a bit down the track. Oh, and still no release date.

First teaser

Even if all that says is that the show "is coming soon", we will forgive the first teaser because of the quality of its appearance. We see McAvoy, Wilson, Keen, and Lin Manuel Miranda embodying both the old-fashioned and extravagant parallel world of Pullman's novels, and Lyra peeking into a closet, presumably from the first scene in the trilogy of books that launches the epic event. The tone seems suitably bleak, whether it's firearms, defenestration, or cold Oxford.

Release date, episodes and timing

According to IMDb, the year of Lyra is close to 2019, but we still do not know exactly when. But with the arrival of the first real trailer and the end of Game of Thrones, the series could soon land. It is worth noting that the BBC has already confirmed that a second season was underway, consisting of eight episodes as the first.

Writer Jack Thorne has proven himself on the epic fantasy front, after adapting Harry Potter and The Cursed Child to the stage, based on one story at a time with him, JK Rowling. is developed. If the seasons follow the books, the first will tell the story of Lyra in Northern Lights (called The Golden Compbad in the US) and the second will cover the second book: The Subtle Knife.

Tom Hooper directs the first two episodes. His period pieces, The King's Speech, The Miserables and The Danish Girl, seem to be a good stylistic match for the Pullman's parallel Oxford phone. Otto Bathurst, of Peaky Blinders, is another exciting English-made director, who handles episodes four and five.

Speaking of Oxford, the real has seen the series run last July, as well as the main shootings in Cardiff, Wales, which began in June.

It will be broadcast on the BBC and HBO has obtained worldwide distribution rights outside the UK. For Americans, you can also subscribe to the HBO streaming service. HBO now here (no TV required).

Progress to date, Philip Pullman himself seems satisfied. Let's hope this version of his books lives up to his promises.

Meet the actors

Look at all those big names, Pan! Except that there is a gaping omission: the voice of the armored bear Iorek Byrnison, played by Ian McKellen in the movie … huge shoes to fill.

Recently, the shoes filled are those of the second most important child: Will Parry. Will becomes friends with Lyra in the second book, mainly because he lives up to his sometimes thorny personality. It will be performed by Amir Wilson of The Kid Who Would be Be King and will probably take up most of his time on screen during the second season. As a 12-year-old boy described as having "stiff, black eyebrows, black hair with a strong, protruding jaw," Wilson could be a perfect cast.

The rest of the distribution we know so far:

Keen could also be the The perfect choice for Lyra because of his inflammatory role in the mutant Laura / X-23 in Logan in 2017. After giving up The beast in Split and GlbadMcAvoy is, quite simply, bading for the role of Lord Asriel, a scholar, explorer and powerful aristocrat. Ruth Wilson is essentially Lyra's antagonist as Mrs. Coulter, a ruthless and glamorous academic, perhaps channeling some of her trick Luther's Alice.

Serafina Pekkala, Pullman's queen of witches, returns to English actress Gedmintas, recently seen in Guillermo Del Toro's vampire series, The Strain. For a preview of Lee Scoresby of Lin-Manuel Miranda (and his mustache), Gedmintas gave us this tweet.

What we know of the plot

The Twitter account of His Dark Materials tweeted a few lines of Pullman's novels to give an idea of ​​the aspects of the series.

The graph below shows the parallel story of the universe in which the novels will come later, which is good news since the film made us hungry to see this adventure told on screen.

In addition to tweeting several character descriptions of Pullman, the account also displayed Pullman's description of what it would be to separate from your soul. In the parallel world of Lyra, the souls of people take the physical form of an animal and call them "demons" (yes, with the "a").

"A human without a demon was like a person without a face, or with open ribs and a torn heart: something abnormal and disturbing that belonged to the world of nocturnes, not to the waking world of the senses. " @BBCOne @HBO pic.twitter.com/XwReyGAxNA

– Its dark materials (@darkmaterials) May 17, 2019

Thorne said about Radio Times' progress last year: "It's an exciting time when we're just throwing things on the page and trying to figure out what works and what does not work."

Like the graphic novel Game of Thrones and the Watchmen, also being adapted for television, the small screen format seems better suited to the complex history of Materials.

"The advantage of television is that we can slow down," Thorne said in the same interview. "In the film and on stage, they had so much to do, so much to do, while we have the luxury of being able to get to know Lyra and spend time in his world."

Have enough time George R.R. Martin played an important role in his decision to adapt to television. Indeed, the writer made reference to the unpublished suites of the Golden Compbad when he spoke to Time of the series in 2017.

"Everything was" Oh, let's make a movie, and if it's a big hit, we'll do more. "Well, that does not always work, as you know if you know the dark materials of Philip Pullman," said Martin. "If the first one does not work, you never get the rest of the story.TV can do more."

In August, the series suggested that one of the most controversial of the great: the Magisterium. Riffing the totalitarian control of the religious institution, the series tweeted this on social media: "You are prohibited from creating, reading or reproducing any clandestine material." The Magisterium proclaimed that social media is a home of heresy Accounts badociated with an abominable heretic "spoiler". "The discussions will have serious consequences".

Note: This story was first published on October 30, 2018 and is updated as the news arrives.