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StudioCanal is a major British Indie film and TV producer who brings Anglophiles their favorite shows and movies. The Cannes Market and Film Festival is one of the significant places where its projects land deals to get their projects released. For 2023, the production studio landed several deals, including its
His Dark Materials
It seems hard to remember now, but when BBC One and HBO announced they were finally getting His Dark Materials off the ground to series, it was an exciting development for fans of the book. Unlike George R.R. Martin, who knew enough about the industry to keep A Song
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His Dark Materials got lucky and unlucky in the BBC's decision to speed greenlight the series and start filming Season 2 before it debuted in November 2019. It meant Season 2 was nearly done when the pandemic hit, with only the final episode altered to make it work.
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In last week's recap, I mentioned that the original plan for His Dark Materials Season 2 was to do eight episodes, the last of which was still unfinished as of the premiere date due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the series' Comic Con at Home panel over
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His Dark Materials Season 2 was initially ordered at eight episodes, the same as Season 1. The BBC put in this order in early fall of 2019, sending the cast and crew back to work early. Of those eight episodes, seven were completed before the end of the year. The
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As His Dark Materials reaches the back half of the second season, the main plot thread continues to focus on Will and Lyra as they plan out a high stakes heist to get the alethiometer back from Boreal. This week's A-plot is all about the two of them
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When His Dark Materials introduced Lyra's Earth in Season 1, it did so directly and straightforwardly. One might even say (and I did, several times) that it was so matter-of-fact in its delivery, it drained the magic out of a mirror universe to our own, which was filled
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This week's His Dark Materials begins with Lyra taking a chance that she can get away with infiltrating Will's Earth twice without getting caught. Even without Pan sounding the alarm, audiences can guess that the second round won't go nearly as smoothly as the
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His Dark Materials landed in Cittàgazze for the premiere episode, introducing a third world between Land Will-Earth and Lyra-Counter-Earth, sort of an "Earth Mark 3," in which Dust is a malevolent force. This week, Will and Lyra take their leave of the city of children (after a bit
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The His Dark Materials trilogy is made up of three very segmented novels. Book one, known either as The Golden Compass or The Northern Lights, depending on which side of the pond you're on, exists utterly in Lyra's world. It's a mirror universe where
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I often group Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials with George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire when discussing its impact on the fantasy landscape. That's because both play on the same stereotype of the genre — the heroic white male whose plot
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Critics have complained that His Dark Materials has failed so far in its ability to emphasize the importance of the daemon-human bond in Lyra's world. Up until this week, I was inclined to argue with them. Though Lyra and Pan are not in constant contact in quite the