It is written by British dramatist Jack Thorne, who also created the Harry Potter stage sequel The Cursed Child, and will attempt to bring Pullman’s complex world to a new TV audience.īut why adapt this decades old trilogy now? Thorne has said that “we live in scary times and I think there’s so much in Philip’s book that’s about now and where we’re at now, even more than when he first wrote it”.Īnd he’s right. Now the BBC and HBO have created a new adaptation of the series that features an array of international acting talent, including Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy and Lin Manuel-Miranda. Is Game of Thrones the last great TV blockbuster? By the same token, Pullman’s words resonated with both the young and culturally attuned adults, who appreciated his stock of grand literary influences from John Milton to William Blake and William Morris. Since the first novel in the series, Northern Lights, was published in 1995, the books have been revered for their capacity to plunge readers into a complex adult world that nevertheless foregrounds child characters. Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy, His Dark Materials, was a unique cultural phenomenon: a rare fantasy work that – despite the convolution of being set in multiple universes – lost none of its literary sophistication.
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