Will they make a golden compass 2 movie series#

He tells her that, to hire them both, she should find Iorek's sky-iron Panserbjørn armour. At Trollesund, a port in the North, Lyra meets and befriends a Texan aëronaut (a balloon flyer) called Lee Scoresby, who tells her of his friend Iorek Byrnison the ice bear. On the ship one night, Lyra is visited by the witch queen of the Lake Enara clan, Serafina Pekkala who tells Lyra that the missing children are in an experimental station called Bolvangar. Lord Asriel, meanwhile, has reached Svalbard, where the panserbjørn rule, but is captured by Samoyed tribesmen hired by Marisa. They keep the captured one in a small tin. She gives it to Farder Coram who explains that the spy-fly has a sting with a sleeping poison and that the escaped one would now tell Marisa where she was. Lyra notices them both, and despite trying to capture them both, only seizes one. Marisa sends two spy-flies after Lyra to find out where she is. Lyra, still puzzled about her alethiometer, shows it to a gyptian elder, Coram van Texel, and discovers that she is able to decipher the device's puzzling answers, swinging to different symbols around the edges which mean different things. The King of the Gyptians decide to head to the North and rescue all the kidnapped children. A number of Gobblers try to chase her, but then Ma Costa, the gyptian, finds her and brings her to John Faa's boat. Lyra and Pan find, in their bedroom, that Marisa's dæmon is trying to take the alethiometer so they run and escape the flat.

It includes Roger Parslow, Lyra's best friend at Jordan, and Billy Costa, a gyptian boy she knows well, Lyra comes to realise that Marisa Coulter is, in fact, the head of the Gobblers. Later, she goes into Marisa's study and Pan finds in the bin a sheet of paper signed by Marisa with a list of all the children taken by the 'General Oblation Board'. Lyra goes into her room and curses the woman. Lyra objects about the last point causing Marisa's dæmon to attack Pan and making Lyra take her bag off. She warns Lyra never to talk of it again and tells her to stop wearing her bag everywhere as it isn't respectful inside. Soon, Lyra gets bored and annoyed by all these expeditions and asks Marisa about Dust. Lyra is taken to Marisa Coulter's flat, in London, where Lyra starts to glimpse the life Marisa is leaving. The Master of Jordan College, Dr Carne, gives her the last alethiometer, a truth reader, to keep a secret from Mrs Coulter. Unknown to Lyra, Marisa is really her mother. Lyra later meets Marisa Coulter, a rich and influential woman who wants to take her on a trip to the North. He wanted to find out about other worlds which would severely destroy the Magisterium's authority. Lyra saves her uncle by warning him about the poison before listening to his presentation, asking for money to send him on a mission to the North to discover more about Dust. Lyra and Pan witness a Magisterium agent poison Asriel's Tokay before a speech about Dust (a topic which has been forbidden to be mentioned) that he was taking in the Retiring Room of the college for the scholars. Lyra is an orphan and her only relative is the explorer Lord Asriel who is her uncle. The gyptians, water travellers, are being worst hit.Īt Jordan College in Oxford, Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon, an animal form of the soul that accompanies every human, Pantalaimon are living a wild life, climbing the roofs and throwing mud at the gyptian children. There is a crisis in Brytain as a group nicknamed the ' Gobblers' go around and take poor children. In Lyra's world, a world both similar and different to our own, there is a dominant organisation, the Magisterium.

3 Differences between the novel and the film.

Although the film's visual effects (which Weitz has called the film's 'most successful element') won both a BAFTA and an Academy Award, critical reception was mixed and revenue lower than anticipated. The studio ordered significant changes late in post-production, which Weitz later called a 'terrible' experience. Catholic League due to perceived anti-Catholic themes.

Will they make a golden compass 2 movie series#

With a budget of $180 million, it is one of New Line's biggest-budget projects ever after a series of box office disappointments preceding the release.īefore its release the film received criticism from both secular organisations and fans of His Dark Materials for the dilution of the religious elements from the novels, and also theist organisations - in particular, it was the subject of a boycott campaign by the U.S. The project was announced in February 2002, following the success of other recent adaptations of fantasy epics. The film was released on 5 December, 2007 by New Line Cinema. The Golden Compass is the film adaptation of Northern Lights, the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. The compass will show the way.' -Official tagline