Dakota Blue Richards has been cast in the lead role of Lyra Belacqua. Richards, 12 years old, landed the role after filmmakers conducted an extensive casting search. More than 10,000 young girls attended open calls in Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, and Kendal, before Richards was chosen from the Cambridge call for a further audition and subsequent screen test.
Philip Pullman commented, “I'm delighted with the casting of Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra. As soon as I saw Dakota's screen test, I realized that the search was over. Dakota has just the combination of qualities that make up the complicated character of this girl, and I very much look forward to seeing the film take shape, with Dakota's Lyra at the heart of it.”
New Line have given the go ahead to production on [i]The Golden Compass[/i] film and filming will begin September 4th, for a scheduled November 16th, 2007 release date.
New Line Cinema Greenlights The Golden Compass for September 4 Start Date
12-year-old British schoolgirl to play Lyra in adaptation
of the first of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.
Film set for November 16, 2007 release date
LONDON (June 28, 2006) – New Line Cinema has officially greenlit production on The Golden Compass, the highly anticipated adaptation of the first of author Philip Pullman’s bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy, it was announced today by New Line’s Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. Production on the $150 million-budgeted film is scheduled to begin September 4 in the UK, with Oscar-nominated writer/director Chris Weitz (About a Boy, Antz) at the helm.
“The Golden Compass is the most ambitious film that New Line has undertaken since The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and we have assembled a remarkable creative team, headed by Chris Weitz, to bring it to fruition,†comment New Line’s Shaye and Lynne.
Newcomer Dakota Blue Richards has been cast in the lead role of Lyra Belacqua. Richards landed the role after filmmakers conducted an extensive casting search throughout England, during which they saw more than 10,000 young girls. Open calls were held in Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, and Kendal, before Richards was chosen from the Cambridge call for an audition and subsequent screen test.
“Dakota made what should have been an extremely difficult decision quite easy,†says writer/director Weitz. “We wanted a completely new face for Lyra, but I was surprised that any young girl, especially one without training, could light up the screen as Dakota does.â€Â
Pullman adds, “I’m delighted with the casting of Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra. As soon as I saw Dakota’s screen test, I realized that the search was over. Dakota has just the combination of qualities that make up the complicated character of this girl, and I very much look forward to seeing the film take shape, with Dakota’s Lyra at the heart of it.â€Â
Helping to bring The Golden Compass to the big screen will be an all-star production team that includes Oscar-winning production designer Dennis Gassner (Road To Perdition, Big Fish), Oscar-nominated costume designer Ruth Myers (L.A. Confidential, Emma), and Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Mike Fink (X-Men, X2, Road To Perdition).
The Golden Compass is being produced by Deborah Forte of Scholastic Entertainment and Weitz’s Depth of Field production company. Paul Weitz (an Oscar nominee for About a Boy) and Andrew Miano will serve as executive producers on the film. Bill Carraro will also serve as a producer on the film.
Based on the bestselling and award-winning Pullman novels, the His Dark Materials trilogy is comprised of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. It revolves around a young girl who travels to the far north to save her best friend. Along the way, she encounters shape-shifting creatures, witches, and a variety of otherworldly characters in parallel universes.
THERE'S A PICTURE OF HER STUNT DOULBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO AN ACTUAL ONE OF HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: even though it's monday :angry:
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS HER, EXCEPT YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE HER!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOO AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry i didn't e you n, my email broke.
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:wait… i found that other one of her where you can acually see her face!!!!!!!!!!!! although i think it's her double's face. but still… YEAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
I'M SSOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
i have to go now. i get to go babysit tonight!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Please nobody try to count the number of '!!!' on this page. Please. :laughing:
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c-you guys have a window next to ours in window painting!
:laughing: I AM IN LOVE!!!!!!!!! :laughing: p.s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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with who??
Hi guys I like where im livin its just cold some (some is Irish for alot) of the time. :laughing:
Just read it… Sammy your in love? :wassat:
Hello fuck faces! :laughing:
hey, i just read through the last page, y do people wanna live in England so much? i'd do anything to live in the us.
ps. almost anything 🙂
Come live in Ireland where the rain never stops!I mean its raining right now! :laughing:
omg sammy! Yey, talk about hu u lurv on OUR web!!! Oh, and this might be why there are no pics of Dakota:
She's ugly or not like how the book describes her appearance so they don't want to show pics of her in case peeps don't want to see the movie!
Oh well, bi bi XXX
I haven't talked to Sammy directly for ages come back come back… wow what just happened to me (Ducks for cover)
O yeh, I'd luv to live in USA 2, it sounds awesome! But I love the English weather!!!
y are u all talking about strange stuff and not about lyra
cos dakotA IS A loser! lolxxx
not really! Nah, shes just not interesting!lolxxx
well, i mean the us isn't horrible or anything, it just… i don't know. i mostly hate the presedent. but the country its self isn't too bad.
oh, and why is dakota ugly?
I haven't slept in 24 hours.
why not?
I have to shear a room with my brother and he was vomiting AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL last night not one wink of sleep to be had.
Ps. My brother is sick he doesn't just vomit for no reason.LOL :laughing:
ugggg! that sucks! :wassat:
Tell me about it!
that's to bad!
who are you in love with, sammy?
and yeah, i hate the president of the us, but the country is awesome!
So the US goverment isn't gr8, every country has its faults!
and mabey they won't give us a pic of Decota so we're even more desperate to see the movie???
I know who Sammy loves!
(Okay Sammy I've distracted them; now RUN!!!!!!!!)
Seriously I do though 😉
LOL :laughing:(Collaspes head first into keybord)
I'm awake but who does Sammy love Kitty Kat
I have to ask and I'm kind of embaressed about this but is Sammy a boy or a girl?
(I atempt to kill myself cause I can't live with suddenly I get resserected)
Dam that inmortality potion.
she's a girl. 🙂
OMG mad larkin! lol! how do ya think she got into the last round of lyra auditions if she wasn't a girl?! (collapses laughing reading previous posts)
DEFINATELY A GIRL.
And I can't tell you who Sammy loves. 😉 🙂
sorry I haven't been on for a while, yes I am a girl and I love ??? :laughing: sorry I can't tell you who but I barely know you guys!!! but I still love you all lol :laughing: xxx
Me is tinkin you guys dont like daccotar, she happens to be my sister!!!!!!!!!!!! stop dissin ma cousin!! jamaica is very good dis time of year, call me on 65435687965!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and Sammy and KittyKat:, you be tinkin you were good in your movie? That is what I be tinkin! And aspaaragas is very good in Jamaica, oh and sammy me friend fancys you! one more ting, you all be very good or de tooth fairy will not come dis christmas! It is christmas in Jamaica here already, so we be eating aspaaragas! You be tinkin me have lovely snowball fights, yes? I will do that for you! My balls are huge yes?
Lav Jamaica and Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes yes me balls be huge man!!! my girlfriend loves them!!!! we play with them all da time, we have just done it now!! my friend is always wanting to play with them but i will not let him play with them, I have a huge sausage, I am eatin it right now man!! I am tinkin you like to eat your sausages man and WOman?
lots of larve jamaica and sam da sexy man xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Eeeew! is he on about what i think he was on about? soz, i had 2 stop reading that post!!!
SAM WILSON U ARE A LOSER AND PROBABLY A COMPLETE CHAV I DOUBT U EVEN HAVE A GIRLFRIEND UNLESS U PAY HER
what is wrong with you???????????? uggggggggggg!!!!! :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat:
Yeh! :wassat:
i agree wiv elly, r u even jamacan cos if dacota was ur sis shes not Jamacan…
They are made of glass…I'm sorry, I thought you were knowing what I was talking about…I am not a chav, and my girlfriend isn't, I hope I haven't offended anybody, please accept all my apologies…I must be misunderstanding.
you are just extreamly gross. that is all i have to say!! :angry: :wassat:
uuuuugggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u are SO weird and gross!!!!!!!!!!! get away from here!!! never come back again :angry:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! it's a spider!!! i hate spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!
also, has anyone read the shadow in the north? i'm reading it now. it's REALLY REALLY good. i want to know how it ends!!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
I was only wanting a friendly disscussion with you English people…I am so sorry, I didn't know of your hostility…
My girlfriend happens to be very real and you guys are sick i waznt talkin bout dat man! do you not lyk Jamaicans? tink about tit!
shutup u loser YOUR NOT JAMAICAN GET OVER IT go back to your real home "im seriously annoying ville"
I auditioned for the role of lyra and got a letter in reply :laughing:
cool, amber!!!!!!!!!!!
and weirdo guy, go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i'm not english, i'm american. never darken this doorstep again!!!!!!!!!! (that's my line from a play i'm in :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Rin, r u a boy or a girl, lol?! Did u audition for Lyra (if ur a girl, I mean) it's just, Sammy and I auditioned 2 b Lyra and got into the last round. Beat thet for cool! (lol, I'm not trying 2 boast) See ya at ya sleepova, Sammy!