JANE TRANTER SMILES AS she remembers the creative process that brought the multiverse-spanning His Dark Materials trilogy to TV.
“We fried each other’s brains,” says the producer, “and those of everyone around us.”
Sat next to Tranter is Jack Thorne, the man who adapted Philip Pullman’s novels for the screen. “I’ve done my fair share of screaming,” he admits.
Little wonder there were so many sizzling cerebrums. His Dark Materials is a beast: a beloved, award-winning epic that entwines science, magic and religion as it ranges across realities. Ambition is embedded in its very words, as much a part of the mix as witches and airships, parallel worlds and warrior bears. Even the title pickpockets a line from Milton’s Paradise Lost – a literary masterwork Pullman’s fully prepared to ruck with.
It’s been adapted before, of course: the National Theatre mounted a stage production in the early ’00s, while Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman starred in 2007’s The Golden Compass, a tepidly received take that killed a potential big-screen franchise at birth.
“I like a challenge,” says Tranter, who was instrumental in resurrecting Doctor Who during her time as controller of drama commissioning at the BBC. (A collaboration with New Line Cinema, His Dark Materials is the first offering from production company Bad Wolf, founded by Tranter and former Who producer Julie Gardner – and yes, the company name is a nod to the classic story arc of the Eccleston era.)
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 2019 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS
