"His Dark Materials" finally has the adaptation it deserves

If you are familiar with young adult fiction then chances are that you have read or must -at least- have been proposed a certain book series; one that has been a worldwide bestseller, just not in the scale of Harry Potter or Twilight. English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a trilogy of grandeur and awe; it is a story that starts small but gets bigger and bigger as the plot moves forward and truly thickens.

The story's protagonist is a 12-year-old girl, named Lyra, who lives in Oxford of a parallel universe, where people walk around along with their daemons (parts of their souls that take the form of an animal). When her best friend is abducted, Lyra starts a big journey in a world where nothing is what it seems and science, theology and magic are all interwined and complex.

If the story sounds somewhat familiar for those of you who haven't had the luck to have read this tremendous book, it might be because back in 2007, a film adaptation of the first book had come out: The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Graig. However and despite its budget, that was a poor attempt to translate the big themes of a -seemingly- teenage book, while its religious background was completely ignored.

This year, BBC has undertaken the rensponsibility to adapt once again - and hopefully in the right way as it has the convenience of a TV series- a book that so much needs to be seen by a bigger audience and to touch teenagers that weren't around when it first came out. The new adaptation (with its 2 seasons having already been announced) stars Logan's big revelation Dafne Keen as Lyra Belacqua, James Mc Avoy [Atonement (2007), X-Men: First Class (2011)] as Lord Asriel, Ruth Wilson [Saving Mr.Banks (2013), Jane Eyre (2006)] as Mrs. Coulter, Lin-Manuel Miranda [Mary Poppins Returns (2018)] as Lee Scoresby and Ruda Gedmintas [The Strain (2014-2017)] as Serafina Pekkala.

Enjoy the trailer and while we wait for the release date, why don't you give the book a read or even a re-read? I know I will.