Dafne Keen and Lin-Manuel Miranda Cast in 'His Dark Materials'

March 8th, 2018, 10:32 pm

Dafne Keen and Lin-Manuel Miranda Cast in 'His Dark Materials'

'The King’s Speech' director Tom Hooper and Dafne Keen, the breakout star of Marvel’s Logan, have signed for the big-budget adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy epic #HisDarkMaterials https://t.co/PXey2jGdCq
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 8, 2018

Exclusive: @Lin_Manuel cast as balloonist- adventurer Lee Scoresby in 8-part @BBCOne /@BadWolf_TV adaptation of @PhilipPullman #HisDarkMaterials @HisDarkMatTV .Shoots from this summer .Series to be directed by Oscar-winning director #TomHooper. pic.twitter.com/rlqL15JO0X
— Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) March 8, 2018

Dafne Keen, who previously played Laura in Logan, will play the part of Lyra Belacqua. Lin-Manuel Miranda will play the balloonist Lee Scoresby. The 8-part BBC series will film this summer and will be directed by Tom Hooper.

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Tagged: books / authors, lin-manuel miranda / hamilton, television - bbc

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OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD

yessssss to LMM and His Dark Materials, mehhhhhhhh to Tom Hooper (who I still haven't forgiven for the aggressively mediocre Les Miz movie nor for stealing The Social Network's rightful BP Oscar!)

Edited at 2018-03-09 03:36 am (UTC)

I will never forgive. I'm with you.

wait its tom hooper?? fuck no

When Tom Hooper is doing a made-for-TV series, that should tell you something about the state of film financing, and it isn't good.

Good casting, and maybe this will make up for the horrible movie with Nicole Kidman.

the mid-budget movie is dead, long live the mid-budget ~~movie~~ TV series!

I will never forgive him for Les Mis, nor for his annoying dutch angles and close ups.

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SAaaaaaaame

This is perfect casting omg

Well perfect re: Dafne as the lead. I don't remember the balloonist much lol.

Really? The Texan who takes Iorek and Lyra to Svalbard?

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It really is.

I remember around the time of the first HDM movie a decade ago they said they wanted someone slightly 'feral' for Lyra and after Logan, this couldn't be more perfect.

I will miss seeing Dafne slice off heads and consider murdering rocking horses tho.

Oooh serendipity! This bookstore was having a IWD sale where women could get books with 50% off and I just bought the cutest editions of the series for myself 😍
It’s so great.
I hope they do it justice this time!

Also yas @ LMM as Lee.

Edited at 2018-03-09 03:36 am (UTC)

I hate that mine are a mess lol they dont match

Ngl, the fact that they had the complete set was the main reason I bought them lmao

wow that's an awesome sale

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they better do a good job this time. because that movie (with that ending) made me so angry. how can you ruin and adaptation like that and with a good cast.

Miga

Extra feliz que comprei meus livros hahahaja

E ELES COMBINAM

I'm still so bitter about that mess :/

for real, it was/is my fave book series and the cast was iconic, especially nicole as miss coulter and daniel craig as lord asriel, and they ruined it.

the ending made no sense when you consider the rest of the series. I wonder where they planned on going with the change

That cast was so good, everyone was perfect for the roles. Pity the movie was a mess.

Wait I forgot what the ending was and what the ending is in the first book help

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ikr wtf was up with that? Too chicken to have a downer ending in a children's movie I guess. Except it wouldn't have made any sense at all if they made sequels and followed the book's storylines.

I hope this doesn't go that route, and I have my fingers crossed they actually make the full trilogy.

yeah the casting for the movie was honestly the best i've ever seen, smh what a waste

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

I loved these books, and it has to be better than that awful movie, right?

OH SHE'S SO PERFECT

Omg!!! That is such a perfect role for him, and so excited they are rebooting JDM! Hopefully this time they won't change the goddamn ending!

(Happy he will be in a more exciting movie than a Math Poppins sequel, lol)

I’m sorry but lmao @ Math Poppins.
Now I want a movie about math teacher Mary Poppins.
Or a Math Poppins YouTube channel. Which seems random but I kind of love watching math related YouTube channels 🤷🏻‍♀️

I loved these books so much (well, up until the ending, which I found kind of trite). I thought after the first film did poorly, they'd never get another shot at an adaptation, so I'm really glad BBC is going the miniseries route.

AHHHHH

OMG YESSS. I have been continually checking up on the progress of this series. I'm so excited it's closer to being made.

she was so good in Logan I'm excited to see whatever she does next

i was nervous when i first heard about this but she was amazing and LMM is great so now i have high hopes.

I have a lot of faith that this series will be a lot better since Phillip Pullman said it's been taking a while because they want to make sure they get everything right

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