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His Dark Materials. His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of ...
- 1995–2000
- Fantasy novel
His Dark Materials is a fantasy drama television series based on the trilogy of novels by Philip Pullman. It is produced by Bad Wolf and New Line Productions, for BBC One and HBO, with the latter handling international distribution. [1] The show follows the orphan Lyra as she searches for a missing friend and discovers a kidnapping plot related ...
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- 3 November 2019 –, 18 December 2022
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Nov 5, 2019 · Nov 5, 2019, 2:56 PM PST. Daphne Keene stars as Lyra on HBO's new series "His Dark Materials." HBO. HBO and BBC's coproduction of "His Dark Materials" based on a book trilogy of the same name by ...
- His Dark Materials is a retelling of Paradise Lost. Milton’s epic poem from the 17th century tells the story of Adam and Eve, and of Satan’s banishment from heaven.
- The title The Golden Compass was a mistake. Pullman first called his series “The Golden Compasses,” a reference to a line from Milton’s epic poem: “The golden compasses, prepared / In God's eternal store, to circumscribe / The universe, and all created things."
- A Leonardo Da Vinci painting inspired Pullman's daemons. In Pullman’s story characters are accompanied by a daemon, an animal that reflects their inner nature.
- Parts of the U.S. edition of The Amber Spyglass were censored. The biggest change, occurring in Chapter 33, concerns a paragraph detailing Lyra’s sexual awakening.
From Philip Pullman's epic His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy (which consists of the books The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) comes this compelling HBO Original series that follows young orphan Lyra (Dafne Keen) on an incredible adventure into a parallel world where a human's soul exists outside one's body — in the form of a talking animal.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of original fantasy novels written by British author Philip Pullman, which were published between 1995 and 2000. The first novel is The Golden Compass, though it was originally published as Northern Lights in the U.K. and Australia, followed by The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
His Dark Materials: Created by Jack Thorne. With Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson. A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.
