The first trailer for the HBO and BBC “His Dark Materials” series includes glimpses of polar bear king Iorek Byrnison and the terrifying daemon machine used by the Gobblers.
The first full trailer for His Dark Materials depicts multiple characters and plot points from the first novel in the Philip Pullman series, The Golden Compass, including a gruesome take on a terrifying machine and our first look at Iorek Byrnison, a talking, armored polar bear. If this trailer is any indication, this adaptation, co-produced by HBO and the BBC, sticks closely to the events of The Golden Compass, though the namesake device, also known as an alethiometer, is nowhere to be seen.
But the most sinister reveal in the first trailer for His Dark Materials also happens to be a spoiler from The Golden Compass. In the world of His Dark Materials, powerful people are obsessed with an elementary particle known as “Dust,” which seems to aggregate around adults. Many attach religious significance to this Dust, and a sinister group known as the Gobblers conduct experiments on children to understand the connection between Dust, daemons, sin and even parallel universes.
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