Two children from opposite ends of reality are about to collide, and all worlds will change with them. The first trailer has arrived for the second season of BBC and HBO Its dark materials thanks to San Diego Comic-Con 2020, which sees Lyra Wild Tongue (Dafne Keen) and Will parry (Amir Wilson) joining forces while stranded in a strange new world. But it looks like his story will be a shorter episode than expected.
the Its dark materials The panel opened with the debut of the second season trailer on Thursday, as part of this year. SDCC (at home) He brought us to Cittàgazze, a massive and beautiful city that hides a terrifying secret that destroyed his world and threatens everyone else. After entering an interdimensional gateway created by Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) at the end of last season, Lyra and her demon Pantalaimon meet Will, a young man from our world with a strange power of his own. Together they decide to look for Will’s father, who was one of the main focuses of the Magisterium in the first season.
The panel brought together showrunner Jack Thorne with Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson (Mrs. Coulter), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Lee Scorsesby), Ariyon Bakare (Lord Boreal), producer Jane Tranter, and newcomer Andrew Scott as the father. from Will, John Parar. Scott announced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge will meet with its Flea bag co-star, playing John Demon Sayan Kötör. This season also sees the arrival of some new cast members, who were not present on the panel; Simone Kirby as the “dark matter” scholar, Dr. Mary Malone, Jade Anouka as the witch queen Ruta Skadi, and General Zod himself, Terence Stamp as Giacomo Paradisi, the bearer of the famous “Subtle Knife”.
An unseen face was McAvoy’s. Tranter explained that Lord Asriel will not be part of the main story next season because he is not a character in The subtle knife, the book on which the second season is based. However, they did try to include it anyway. Thorne had written an episode that focused on Lord Asriel’s journey, an original story that would have brought Asriel to where we found him in the third book, The amber spyglass. Unfortunately, while filming that episode, the new coronavirus pandemic occurred.
“We had a separate episode that we were filming in March, and it was separated from the other seven episodes. It was a standalone episode, which Jack had written with the blessing and input of Philip Pullman, which analyzed what Asriel had been doing between going through the anomaly at the end of the first season, and when we see Lord Asriel at the beginning of book three. Tranter said. “Lord Asriel is not really in The subtle knife. There is a lot of talk about him, his presence is felt a lot, but in reality he is not there. We play a kind of detective with The subtle knife, and I found out what Asriel could have been doing. “
Tranter said filming was not completed before everything went dark, so Tranter said the episode has been “shelved” temporarily. That means the second season of Its dark materials There will only be seven episodes instead of eight, although it still counts the full events of The subtle knife. The producer added that they hope to revisit the independent episode of Asriel at some point in the future, though he did not specify how.
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Its dark materials The second season debuts on BBC and HBO sometime this fall.
This post has been updated with additional context from the Comic-Con panel.
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