According to Deadline, the BBC has selected a star for the upcoming episode "The Golden Compass" adapted from Philip Pullman's novel of the same name: Daphne Keane, who starred in Wolverine. Tom Hope, the director of The King's Speech, will also direct the series.
The fantasy novel is about the adventures of Lyra Belacqua, a child from another world. Keane's character in last year's X-Men movie Wolverine was X-23, a young clone of Wolverine. She will play the novel's protagonist, Lyra, who sets out to the North Pole in search of a kidnapped friend and discovers a larger threat involving the nature of a mysterious phenomenon called "Dust.".
Bad Wolf Studios, founded by a core team behind BBC Doctor Who and Torchwood Panel, is producing the series and is being written by Jack Thorne, author of Miracle Boy and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Deadline noted that the show will be released by the BBC in the UK, and that Apple and Netflix have already expressed interest in US and global copyrights.
The novel was first published in the UK as Northern Lights, and its sequels, The Mysterious Dagger and The Amber Telescope, are a powerful trilogy of theology, quantum physics, and totalitarianism. Last year, Pullman published the first installment of the long-awaited sequel, The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage. New Line Pictures and Harry Potter and philosopher of the Philosopher's Stone, Christopher Columbus, planned to adapt the first novel in the series at a time when Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings were trending fantasy, but without success.
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