![]() ![]() No details were given as to casting or how the series will break up the story, but there’s a chance here to create something special. ![]() For all those reasons I'm delighted at the prospect of a television version of His Dark Materials." And the sheer talent now working in the world of long-form television is formidable. "It's been a radio play, a stage play, a film, an audiobook, a graphic novel - and now comes this version for television in recent years we've seen how long stories on television, whether adaptations such as Game Of Thrones or original (The Sopranos, The Wire), can reach depths of characterisation and heights of suspense by taking the time for events to make their proper impact and for consequences to unravel. ![]() "It's been a constant source of pleasure to me to see this story adapted to different forms," Pullman says in a statement to the Beeb. The trilogy, which comprises the books Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, follows adventures of Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry as they explore parallel universes inhabited by witches, armoured bears, and daemons.Īnd the brain behind the stories seems happy with this new development. So with the chance to adapt Philip Pullman’s work in the air, the BBC has now commissioned a new drama based on the His Dark Materials trilogy. 2007’s The Golden Compass was not, despite high ambition, franchise hopes and some solid casting, a success on many levels. ![]()
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