Filming starts on the final season of His Dark Materials

The third and final season of HBO’s His Dark Materials has officially started production, according to a tweet from the show’s official Twitter account:

Those are actors Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson as Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, the two kids at the center of this epic, dimension-hopping story. The first two seasons of the show covered the first two books in Philip Pullman’s series, The Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass, depending on where you live) and The Subtle Knife. The third season will cover the third, final and biggest book in the trilogy: The Amber Spyglass.

The third and final season of His Dark Materials could be bonkers

When we left our heroes, Lyra and Will were separated, Lyra kidnapped by her megalomaniacal mother Mrs. Coulter (Ruth Wilson) and Will determined to save her. Meanwhile, Lyra’s father Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) has rallied an army of disaffected angels to take on the Authority, aka God, who presides over all dimensions in Lyra’s world acts through the oppressive theocracy the Magisterium. “It’s war,” McAvoy recently teased of the final season. “At the end of the second season we sort of declare war on the Kingdom of Heaven, so yeah it gets pretty down and dirty, and there’s gonna be a lot of fisticuffs and a lot of explosions and all that stuff.”

The Amber Spyglass goes indeed get pretty wild. We’re a race of spineless four-legged beings who use giant seed pods as wheels to get around, an underworld ruled by cruel harpies with the bodies of birds and the heads of humans, the return of talking polar bears, and much more.

If filming is just starting up, we probably won’t see His Dark Materials season 3 this year, but we’ll be looking forward to the premiere on HBO all the same.

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