Greetings Shadow Chasers and Dust Makers.
Remember the above image? Some of you do. My extensive - you could even claim exhaustive - retrospective on the 2007 Golden Compass film has turned out to be one of my most popular posts, which you can read here.
Yes, we know it's really called Northern Lights. Yes, we know Lyra really went to Bolvangar first before helping to overthrow the bear-king Iofur Raknison. And we know the bear-king's name was, in fact, Iofur Raknison. And we also know the ending was completely butchered and cut thanks to studio interference.
However, we also know The Golden Compass film was one of the Best Cast Book-to-Movie Adaptations Ever. Philip Pullman will back me up on this. And so will the Authentic Observer on YouTube here, starting about twenty eight minutes in. The characters just walked off the pages and up onto the screen, and that was that.
(Yes, we like Lin Manuel Miranda, but if anyone out there honestly thinks he makes a better aeronaut cowboy straight out of the country of Texas than Sam Elliott, I simply don't know what to say to you.)
And so here are these old character posters I happened across, just because they're so much fun. Including the fact that you have their daemons under their character names.
Sigh. If only we could subtle knife our way into an alternate world where the New Line films continued ...
P.S. After watching Downtown Abbey in its entirety, Jim Carter as John Faa now makes me smile even more.
And as Always
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