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.
This is acuatly Mad Larkin I'm just trying out a new nick name. I feel the tension is running a little high here so I'm going to leave this link here it's to a quite funny website so just bear with me http://www.Water Man Studios.com It's weird but funny
Oh sorry the link is http://www.watermanstudios.com
"Some people call me a pyromaniac but I just call it fun with matches-" Flame Trooper Brostin of the Tanith First (and only)
I hate you all especally Sammy and Mad Larkin.Mad Larkin go back to Ireland and stay there we don't want you and Sammy I just think that your a whore.
That's not Mischa… don't worry Mischa nobody thinks that's you.
I mean, it's not like we're stupid, who do they think they are to pretend to be us and insult our friends?
*Kicks computer* The temporary monitor is so titchy, I can hardly see what I've written! So sorry for any mistakes. 🙂
I'm not a ho u are a ho! you are just a fugly bitch who doesn't have any friends so you to the computer for a friend, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!!!! oh and everyone else, I have a new site and i have deleted the other one, my new one is http://www.sammylikesenumbers.piczo.com lol by by! xxx
I bet ya it's Bill the Kid.
The reatard accualty caughty :laughing:
'The reatard accualty caughty'..what the ****…
That's not Sammy. Whoever it is must be really thick to think her best friend doesn't know exactly how she types. And I mean everything down to grammer, not just vocabulary. So whoever it is
SHUT UP!!!!! :angry:
rin is a girl, and neither of us could audition for lyra because we're american. i'm a girl too, by the way.
and i don't think that was the real mischa, i don't know her personally, but she seems nicer than that. 🙂
Eeek! NOOOOO! Sumbody's pretending to b me again! No fair! Thankfully, u all no that wasn't me! Phew x1000!!! Thanks Amz and orange, and thanks orange for saying i'm nicer lol. U no it wasn't me, Sammy! And Mad Larkin, I'm anti-prejudism/racism so i wud NEVA say "go back 2 Ireland" blah-blah-blah. If it is Bill-The-(******)Kid he is such a LOW LIFE! Lol, b*g off, Kiddo.
yeah, i'm a girl. and i couldn't audition :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
i wish i could have, though
yeah that is definsatly not mischa or sammy. it's some weirdo!!!! never darken this doorstep again weirdo!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
You all go FUCK YOURSELVES :tongue:
I have apeased the Dark God's I can now return the underworld from wence I came :angry:
WTF?!… Anyway I didn't think it was you either Mischa.
Right, i hate 2 have to say this but I'm not going to use this board/website anymore. So if anybody says something with my name, u will no it's NOT me. This is stupid. Sammy, maybe u shouldn't either. If this carries on, it could mean missing out on being cast for things cos' peeps r using our names and saying bad things. Not funny.
Bye-bye! Miss you all peeps.xxx :crying: 🙁
You see what you pricks have done :angry:You've driven away one of the nicest people to grace this website you don't even deservr to be in presence. Godshites!
I did that before. It really worked (For a while.), I'm joining Mischa. I agree with orange and to Bill the Kid:
G> F>CK Y>>RS>LF
Would you like to buy a vowel?
yes i think that is a good idea, by by! i will miss you all MWAH! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Aaaaaaaaaaaw i love you all really. im a very loving person. i'm sooooo sorry mischa, sammy and all u others – i don't know WHAT i was thinking! I LOVE YOU ALL! IM SO SORRY! I know im a horrible person, and what im doing is totally lowlife – im sorry, once again.
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yeah, right, "bill the kid" you are so weird and other stuff….
i'll miss you guys!
it will just be me and you now c! everyone elso has left. :crying:
no one has tried to be me yet!
THERE'S A PICTURE!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:YEAH!!!!!!!!
It's just us now Rin… anyway I saw the picture and it's…
what does every1 think of the pic???
its kinda hard to c her clearly…
It's not how I pictured Lyra
same…
WHERE ARE YOU C?
anyway, yeah. she looks to young to me and her hair is to curly, i tink. coulter is GREAT, though!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
hello. anyone there?? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
i agree, coulter looks gd 🙂 how i imagened her more or less…
She is lucky ^^ But I love the story ! 🙂
Hey did anyone go onto the link I put up? 🙂
I dont' think dakota looks right for the part, but she will probably grow into it. When harry potter first came out the only person that looked right to me was radcliffe, but know they all look good to me.
ur right safari, by the time we've seen the film, dakota will probs look just like lyra 2 us.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
I don't know about Dakota- she looks like real cute and small and stuff but a bit too much like Claudia in interview with a vampire don't you think. THe films should not be made- have you seen the mess they've made of Harry Potter and are soon to make of ERagon? I've got nothing against child stars but they ruin way too many good books.
Dakota better be good.
I'm back! :tongue: :laughing: 😉 🙂
where were you?
Fishing
interesting…
I wasn't fishing I never said that I was in Birmingham! :angry: Someone was impersonating me :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
what i'm glad about is that no one is pretending to be me :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: but they probably will soon :angry: :angry: :angry:
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's a spider i hate spiders run away!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhh :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: :wassat: 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Look everyone a butterfly! Wheeeee!
Rin… you feelin ok?… And Bill the Kid if it was you be me I will hunt you down and disembowel you!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry:
THAT WAS NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i just laughed SO SO hard when i read that beacuse it sound EXACTLY like what this annoyig kid who sits next to me in spanish would say. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
and whoever did that, i will hunt you down and get you!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
Poopy Pants 🙂
Dakota, if u read this — Pie!
THAT WAS NOT ME EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE YOU PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
Cake is better! :tongue: :laughing: 🙂 :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :wassat: :crying: 🙁 :angry: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
i'm guessing that was not you. but anyway, i think i;m the only one left so i won't be coming back. goodbye, nice people, NOT PEOPLE WHO PRETEND TO BE ME OR OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: