The fantasy series shows us what was going on off the pages of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass.
Warning: Spoilers fromHis Dark Materialsepisode 3 are discussed in this article.
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The first episodeis the most detailed page-to-screen adaptation and then it grows from then on, Tranter tells EW.
We have done what I would call a very authentic adaptation ofThe Golden Compass.
I think it is faithful to the essence and the spirit of everything that Pullman wrote.
Sometimes its a faithful adaptation scene by scene.
When its not, she says it still feels authentic.
We introduced the idea of Mrs. Coulter so strongly, she says.
That was one of the first conversations that Jack and I had with Philip.
We were saying, What is Asriel doing now and what is Mrs. Coulter doing now?'
The mission ends badly and further shows the relationship between human and daemon.
The same goes for the books.
This particular midnight mission illustrates what happens when a human dies.
While the boys make it inside Coulters office, they are soon made.
As her golden monkey pins down Benjamins daemon, so, too, does he feel that pain.
Benjamin, eventually, breaks free and throws himself down the elevator shaft.
In our world, we know this from the book of Genesis.
This scene also works to further show the unraveling of Mrs. Coulter.
That all came from Wilsons work with Brian Fisher,the puppeteer behind the monkey daemon.
We saw her rehearsal and we said, Just do it.
It was quite an extraordinary moment when that happens.
He was very supportive and very tolerant, Tranter adds.
As Philip would say, the clue to an adaptation is in the name.
Youre adapting a book for how it could work on screen.
