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The Golden Compass does contain some flashes of the great movie it could have been. Coulter, her performance just keeps hammering the same note, playing up the character’s interior frostiness without any of the false warmth that allows her to beguile so many in the first place. And while Nicole Kidman was author Phillip Pullman’s first choice for the role of the villain Mrs. There’s a reason for that Nonso Anozie was originally cast in the role, but was eventually replaced-against the wishes of director Chris Weitz-by McKellen, who New Line preferred because audiences knew him from Lord of the Rings. Ian McKellen is a great actor, but he’s all wrong for the voice of the armored bear Iorek Byrnison. And Daniel Craig embodies the flinty, inscrutable inner life of Lord Asriel so perfectly that he was essentially born to play the role. Sam Elliott practically leaps off the page as the warm-hearted American cowboy Lee Scoresby. Plucked from obscurity at the age of 12 via an open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards is a strong Lyra, playing up the confidence and the curiosity that makes her such an ideal protagonist. It’s a shame, because most of the movie’s cast could hardly be better-suited to the material. The compressed timeline turns all the novel’s well-rounded personalities into flat cliches, with characters popping up just long enough to introduce themselves-like they’re fifth-graders who have each been promised a turn in the spotlight in the school play. At 114 minutes, The Golden Compass is nearly a full hour shorter than that, and it greatly suffers from the decision to condense a sprawling fantasy story into a film that’s not even as long as your average Judd Apatow comedy. Tolkien’s fantasy narrative into a single movie, but it’s still almost three hours long. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring does an admirable job condensing the first part of J.R.R. In the end, the movie’s real enemy is compression. Now, HBO-in collaboration with BBC One, where the show will air abroad-is bringing the same novel to TV, and hoping to achieve the success that eluded the movie both critically and commercially 12 years ago. We’ve been through a version of this before, in 2007, when a fantasy epic called The Golden Compass hit theaters to a wave of controversy and a mediocre box-office gross that snuffed out two planned sequels.

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And with at least three novels by series creator Phillip Pullman to adapt- The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, along with two more recently published books and some ancillary spinoff stories-there’s more than enough material for His Dark Materials to run for years.īut those with a sharp memory for Hollywood’s misbegotten blockbusters will be feeling some deja vu right now. Sounding familiar? Yes, it’s clear that HBO hopes His Dark Materials, which premieres tonight, will enrapture the same audience that gobbled up Game of Thrones (or at least tide them over until House of the Dragon is ready). By the time the whole thing is over, maybe they’ll even bring home, I don’t know, about five dozen Emmys. Undaunted, a major cast is assembled-along with sets, costumes, and CGI elaborate enough to rival most blockbusters-in the hopes audiences will be so seduced that they’ll lose themselves in a complicated fantasy world for seasons and seasons to come. It has grossed more than $370 million (GBP213.8 million) worldwide since its December 2007 release.Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: HBO signs on to adapt an award-winning series of fantasy novels, which are beloved by readers but difficult and expensive to adapt. Eva Green, who was cast by director Chris Weitz as witch-queen Serafina, says, 'At the moment it's quite dead.' The Golden Compass had a budget of $180 million (GBP104 million) - making it one of New Line studio's most expensive projects to date. Two further films based on Pullman's novels - The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass - were due to be made following the box office success of The Golden Compass - but plans have stalled as a result of the present downturn in the international economy.

The Golden Compass, which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, was the first of author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy to be adapted for the big screen. The two planned sequels to hit movie The Golden Compass have become Hollywood's first major victims of the current economic crisis - production on the movies has been put on hold indefinitely.

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