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ThanosM.
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His Dark Materials: Film Edition (Released)
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Date created
30-Dec-2022, 7:08 AM

feronstost said:
I cannot wait for your third one! I still haven’t asked for the first two but I shall eventually!

I hope your patience will be rewared!

So… Season 3 is over.
And I am afraid I have to repeat myself once again. There were tons of stuff I enjoyed throught this season, and many that I did not. I will not touch upon every single change and deviation from the book, I am well aware that each adaptation must take its own route and I fully support creative freedom, however good the source material might be. My concerns are about the characters and the events that ended up in the final product and how and if they could have been handled differently.
That being said, I have to say that I still believe that this adaptation stayed true to the overall message of Philip Pullman’s work and that the final episode brought tears to my eyes and warmth to my heart. And I consider this a big success.

At some point I will make a list of every single change I chose to make for my project, but for now I just want to share my thought process for the final piece(s) of my film collection.

As for now, my decision is to split Season 3 into two films.
I usually don’t like two-part movies and I don’t mind an extra long viewing, but in this case I think this is the only way. Despite its complex concepts at times, I am fully aware that this series targets mainly young audiences, so a longer than a three-hour movie wouldn’t really be fit for this kind of collcetion.
So on their current forms both films have a runtime of approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes and are titled His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass, Part 1 and His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass, Part 2 respectively.

Initially I thought it would be cool to name the first part differently (like the fisrt film is titled The Golden Compass -a material- the second Northern Lights -not a material- the third The Subtle Knife -a material- the fourth -not a material- and the fifth The Amber Spygalss -a material-) but I still can’t think of a suitable title.
But as always I am open to suggestions.

Unfortunately I can’t give a release date at this point. All I can promise is that the updated versions of The Golden Compass and the Northern Lights will be available on January. As for The Subtle Knife I am quiet satisfied with its current form. The only change I would like to make is to put back a couple of not-so-necessary-for-the-plot scenes, which I will do eventually, but maybe after the release of the final films.

As always, I am grateful for your patience and the kind messages you send me.
I hope everyone has a happy new year’s eve!