The BBC are good at this kind of thing. They did Gormenghast and the best adaptation in live action of the Narnia books - though they did run out of money and time and couldn't finish adapting the whole series.
This could be a good thing if they don't screw it up.
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The movie was fairly crap, so I suppose they could improve on that.
Of course a gold-plated piece of shit is still a piece of shit.
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It lives, it lives.
Our director? Tom Hooper.
Lyra? Dafne Keen, aka Laura/X-23 from Logan
Lee Scoresby? Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Please let it suck less than the movie. I still regret not walking out of that theater, but I needed to see if they kept the ending at least.
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On the one hand, I don't think it's possible to make a worse adaptation than that movie. On the other hand, I keep saying that about the Fantastic Four films, and they keep proving me wrong.
I hate to ask, but what was wrong about the movie? As someone who never read the book, I liked it just fine.
The book... had a lot of really big religious themes (if just, extremely critical of religion) and the film wanted Nicole Kidman so bad that they bowed to her request that the film wouldn't have such a massively critial view on religion. Which, since that's a MASSIVE part of the original series and part of the appeal and what made it different, it just pissed off people who were fans of the original and didn't stand out enough to build a new fanbase.
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They had this big stupid infodump at the beginning of the movie and they totally ruined the ending.
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...the director is Tom Hooper? Well, prepare for lots of weird cinematographic choices that don't quite work.
Not Three Laws compliant.
To be honest, and especially in the world of TV where everything looks the same, I'd rather see a director try something and fail than just be going by the numbers.
The books were written to be the Anti-Narnia about how religion is awful and science is good. Increasingly, they became the Anti-Narnia in the exact same way Naria fell to pieces: they ceased to tell anything resembling a good story and became straight up preaching at the reader.
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Most ranty fiction tends to do that. It’s why I have no interest in this series. At all.
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The film also had the issue of cutting the ending of the first book entirely, but yeah the general issue was the toning down of the anti-religion (yet I’d argue not anti-faith) message in a foolish atmept to avoid outrage from Americans.
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True, but I'd argue that an adaptation process could fix those problems later on down the line.
Wanted to submit a fancast to see if I happen to guess right. I'd like to see Damien Lewis or Sean Bean for Lord Asriel and Claire Foy or Eva Green as Mrs. Coulter.
My vote would be Eva Green. She can be absolutely stunning and charming and change to vicious and nasty in a heartbeat. Absolutely perfect for the role.
Plus, I believe she's a natural blonde.
Also the movie focused way too much on Lord Asriel because hey, we need to show off Daniel Craig for the commercials.
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And we have a teaser:
What a cast.... this should be good. Ruth Wilson does creepy SO WELL.
Oh hey, a bit of a heads-up, apparently while HDM will air on BBC One in the UK, it turns out HBO (who is co-producing the series) will be airing it everywhere else, including the US.
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I wonder if there'll be many differences between the broadcast versions,sometimes there are
New theme music also a box
Oh, this one looks very good.
Another trailer from SDCC:
Hey, anyone still remember that Golden Compass movie from a while back?
Because this makes that look pretty silly in hindsight, as I right?
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As someone who has never read the books, I loved the film and was disappointed that it never had sequels. It's nice to see a new, Truer to the Text adaptation being made.
Well.
I didn't see that one coming.
Beyond it being an eight-episode mini-series there aren't any details yet or any clue about whether they're covering all the books or just the first and most famous one for now but wow. If a proper budget can be fixed this has potential.