his dark materials

‘His Dark Materials’ series coming to BBC.

Am I going to be impolite, here? …Yes. Yes, I think so. I feel that it’s good that the people making His Dark Materials have admitted to themselves that the appeal of petulant Gnosticism has gotten more selective:

BBC has released the official teaser trailer for their upcoming fantasy series His Dark Materials, offering us our first look at Dafne Keen, James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ruth Wilson’s characters as Lyra, Lord Asriel, Lee Scoresby and Mrs. Coulter, respectively. The series adaptation is based on Philip Pullman’s novel trilogy of the same name.

Interesting: BBC doing an adaptation of His Dark Materials.

Maybe it’ll work this time: “The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper and Logan‘s Dafne Keen are set to join the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s series “His Dark Materials, according to Deadline. Hooper is up to direct the eight part series while Keen is on board to play the main character Lyra.” For a given value of ‘work,’ of course. The great advantage of television over movies for this sort of thing is that it’s harder to say when something’s failed, financially. The market can be a cruel gatekeeper. Continue reading Interesting: BBC doing an adaptation of His Dark Materials.