Actually, this is not the first time the "Dark Matter" IP has been filmed. In 2007, the "Golden Compass", which assembled Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Eva Green, was based on the original work "Dark Matter". The producer of
is a new line of film industry that has released the "Lord of the Rings" series. The new line of
is powerful. In addition to "Lord of the Rings", "Blade Warrior", "Reaper is Coming", "Butterfly Effect" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" are all proud of. "The Clown", which broke the box office record for horror movies in the past two years, is also a new line production.
At that time, New Line had just finished filming the "Lord of the Rings" series. In order to make a fantasy masterpiece that would compete with "Harry Potter", it started with "Dark Matter". Please make Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and other big coffees invest US$180 million in investment, vowing to contend with "Harry Potter" during the same period.
Daniel Craig, who just emerged in "007: Casino Royale", is here as the leading actor.
Nicole Kidman in his prime, playing the villain Mrs. Kurt, looks stunning.
and the witch played by Eva Green are still talked about by movie fans. The strong cast and team of
, at first glance, is a god-made reservation. But when the movie was released, everyone was shocked. The global box office totaled 370 million U.S. dollars, so that Xin Xian mom didn't even know it. The dismal box office directly dragged down the new line, leading to its incorporation by Warner, and the sequel shooting plan was lost.
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Looking back now, although the original work is backed up by the gods, in order to condense the story into two hours, the director has deleted the original work beyond recognition. Not to mention the big change in the plot, there are still a lot of holes at the end, the only thing you can see is the special effects.
△ A large number of CG technologies have led to high production costs. The movie version of
is very miserable, but the original work is a fantasy work comparable to "The Lord of the Rings", and it has always been the sweet pastry in the eyes of major film companies. So this time the new line is coming back, it is naturally reasonable. The
drama version of "Dark Matter" is produced by the BBC and produced by the new line. It has just been broadcast for two episodes and its reputation has exploded. The BBC has confirmed that it will renew the second season of "Dark Matter".
BBC can be said to have lost money this time. With the most expensive investment in the history of British drama, the All-Star cast + top behind-the-scenes team was brought in.
director Tom Hopper, directed the best Oscar film "The King's Speech" and the best-known film "Les Miserables".
screenwriter Jack Thorne, masterpiece "Miracle Boy", nominated for Oscars that year. The little wolf girl Daphne Keane ("Wolverine 3"), who plays the little protagonist Laila, is still full of aura.
starred by James McAvoy ("X-Men" series) and Ruth Wilson ("Jane Eyre").
△ Yimei plays Laila’s uncle
△ Laila’s mother, the glamorous ogre leader
. In order not to follow the mistakes of the "Golden Compass" demonic plot, the drama version also invited the original author Philip Pullman himself. Producer.
△ Philip Pullman
Judging from the first two episodes that have been broadcast, the author's addition is extremely effective. The drama version initially restored the "Dark Matter", a fantasy world intertwined with magic, elves, mythology, and parallel worlds.
△ This is actually a parallel world
In the world of "Dark Matter", there is a very fascinating setting: everyone's soul is an elf, existing in the form of an animal, like a shadow of human beings. And the animal form of the elves is the character of the owner. For example, a warm and friendly person has a brightly colored cat, and a soldier has a wolf or hound.
The lord played by Yimi, whose elf is an elegant snow leopard, with a strong aura and an explosive battle. The soul of Laila is a very rare white weasel.
Laila grew up in Oxford University in this world. When the uncle returned from the Arctic expedition, he brought an explosive observation: under the dust of the northern lights, there is a hidden "city in the sky", which is a parallel world.
The discovery of the parallel world caused Laila and her uncle to fall into a murderous disaster. Because the world is controlled by the church, any act of searching for secrets is heresy and may be murdered.
At the same time, strange things happened one after another around the world: hundreds of children, together with the elves incarnate from their souls, disappeared mysteriously, including Laila's friend Roger.
Dark and gloomy crises are everywhere. In order to find friends, Laila embarked on the road to the North Pole, and various puzzles and conspiracies followed.
In terms of visual effects, the drama version of "Dark Matter" does not lose to "Golden Compass" at all.
Whether it is the steam locomotives and airships of the old world, or the city in the sky hidden under the dust; and the armored bears in the north, just like human beings, there are glory, battles, and kingdoms. All kinds of fantasy imagination in the original
have been restored in the play.
's shocking visual effects, compact plot, and various suspenseful foreshadowings, fully demonstrate the grand atmosphere of the epic drama.
was changed into the drama "Dark Matter", whose original work is a fantasy literary classic that can be recorded in history.
It is an outstanding fantasy literature, which involves parallel worlds, human nature exploration and religious criticism, and is known as "the creation myth of the 21st century."
has won numerous hall-level literary awards-
has also been translated into more than 40 languages, sold 17.5 million copies in the world, and has been adapted into movies, TV series, and stage plays many times.
△ "Dark Matter" set
author Philip Pullman, is a recognized "great storyteller." The fantasy stories he wrote, fused with elements of fairy tales, legends, history, classics, science, etc., are as twists and turns as a kaleidoscope; coupled with his in-depth analysis of human nature and the world, they are as grand as an epic.
And "Dark Matter" is such a work. There are both brain-opening fantasy stories that you can’t stop after reading; there are also reflections on the status quo of mankind, doubts about authority, about how to live, love, fight, betray, comfort each other, and how we interpret ourselves, Thought-provoking.
is such a fantasy work, only when you open it yourself, can you experience the shock!
"Dark Matter"
