New film stills from The Golden Compass
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New Line have unleashed a barrage of new images to promote The Golden Compass for 2007. They feature several new shots of Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra with Gyptians, Lee Scoresby and her mother – Mrs Coulter, played by Nicole Kidman. You can view all of the images in our Movie Image gallery and discuss them here or on the message-boards.

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39 Responses to New film stills from The Golden Compass

  1. Vaka says:

    I like them. Lee Scoresby looks kind of like Mark Twain.

    Not too crazy about the first picture though, looks a little too…I dunno, cheap somehow…other than that these are great.

  2. Anita says:

    The pics look fabulous! I love the costumes. Can't wait to see the movie!

  3. lee_scoresby says:

    i compeltely agree with Vaka…
    it does all seem a little.. cheap, or tacky… or something… who knows…
    hopefully these arent stills or anything
    these pictures were actually slightly dispiriting

  4. Anita says:

    They were probably taken in a studio – but on the big screen everything should turn out more natural looking, I guess.

  5. Bruce says:

    wow that pic of Lyra helping who I believed to be roger in the north almost made me cry it captured a lot of emotions in the book

  6. crazy_stunt_girl says:

    The pictures are ok… they do give off a kinda "cheap" and "over-the-top" feeling, but not complaining! I guess we can assume from the first photo that at least one woman goes North with the rest of the gyptians (Ma Costa?). Since it shouldn't have much of an overall effect on the story's outcome, I don't think it's a big deal, just an interesting observation. I am very excited by how much New Line is promoting the film, especially considering how long we still have to wait for the final product!

  7. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    i like them! specially the one lyra's helping roger

  8. Mr A says:

    Just beautiful

  9. Kevin Blott says:

    I think Lyra's holding Tony Makarios. I believe these are trailer stills because the caracters were in action when these images where shot.

    the trailer is coming *_*

  10. Wytchbabi says:

    looks pretty good so far, doesn't it? 🙂 dakota looks bad-ASS!

  11. DarkM says:

    These shots have no post production. They will be much better once the footage have gone through that process.

    The promo picture of Nicole Kidman and her golden monkey is a fake – her head was clearly taken from the shot of her and Jordan college blurred in the background.

    There will be a trailer of The Golden Compass shown when the new Harry Potter movie is released. Watch this space.

  12. Alewyn says:

    that's it, i'm going to the midnight viewing of harry potter.

  13. Lizzietiffon01 says:

    love DE pics! Specially lyra walking on the seats in dining hall place. oh, and her + roger.
    how cool r Lyra's gyptain clothes?

    cum on trailer!!!!!!!!

  14. sisis says:

    To DarkM: It's a pronostic the trailer being realised when Harry Potter comes or is your opinion?

    I am very exited with the new sills, and yes it seem cheap because they need a post production.

  15. BantamBuyer says:

    Some of these photos are the best indication I've seen so far that the film is going to be great.

  16. hippy says:

    Ive said it before, and Ill say it again…visually, they seem to be nailing it. If the script is as good as the way it looks,, then its gonna be a winner

  17. sisus says:

    I AGREE!

    Don't you all want a picutre of Coulter in the north. I am very excited for seeing what costumes she where in the north…..Oh! and more piks of Serafina, we only have one!

  18. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    Yeah!
    I want more serafina pekkala!
    and i want a picture pf lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter together in the north :tongue: (am I asking too much? xD)

  19. Silverfist says:

    Wow!!!!!!! Most of these are great!!!! I wanna see the movie right NOW!!!

  20. Myévam says:

    I seriously need Serafina Pekkala pics.
    LIEK, NOW!!!!!!111!1 ;D

  21. LucyC says:

    I have some problems with these pictures, but most of which have to do with what I pictured these people in my mind. Still I'm mad about Coulter's hair. Otherwise she's perfect.
    And I love the picture of Lyra helping Tony. Or Roger.

  22. Haltiamieli says:

    With this bunch of pictures (ranging from very good to quite okay, in my opinion) I was inspired to do a bit of Gorey-esque picture manipulation, though with a picture we've already seen earlier. So, this is part of the (non-existant) HDM version of the classic "Gashlycrumb Tinies": http://www33.brinkster.com/haltis/Roger.png

  23. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    i've also done lots of things in the photoshop with the pictures :3

    for example, this icons :
    http://groups.msn.com/materiaoscura/avatares.msnw

    you can use them as you want ^.^

  24. Amy says:

    Those pics are cheap, over the top and tacky? for some reason when Oxford Dictionary was being written, I doubt those pics were what they had in mind for cheap and tacky to mean. Those are excellent stills, there is nothing cheap, over the top and tacky about them. Pullman's world that he made His Dark Materials to be is no different from our world. It isn't meant to look hi-tech or ridiculously shiny/glossy, the world should be lived in and even unfantisied. Those are excellent movie stills. It would be good if people who see them as tacky and cheap point to things they would have done to make them look "un"cheap or non-tacky. The crew and cast look to be doing a grand job. Critizing is one thing, over the top negative analysis is another.

  25. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    Amy, you're right, i've seen so many negative comments about everything T-T

  26. Silverfist says:

    i fully agree with Amy. These are truly AWESOME pictures. I especially like the one with Lyra walking on the chairs.

  27. JoJo says:

    g!!!

    Those photos of Nicole and Daniel are very sexy! Yummy. They make a nice couple.

  28. WEN says:

    Those photos are really sexy!! Someone's posted a transcript of the interview at a Nicole fans site. They seem to have great chemistry. This movie is lucky to have such great actors. A few snippets-

    Despite the photo-shoot fatigue, Kidman and Craig can’t seem to get enough of each other. He’s decidedly less jittery when she’s around, and she brightens-instantly-when he walks into the room.

    ‘She turns me on,’ says Craig mischievously in his smooth, deep voice. ‘In the nicest possible way, you understand. Not in any sordid, horrible way.’ And then he pauses, reconsiders and laughs: ‘Well, come to think of it…’

  29. WEN says:

    A few more–

    In The Golden Compass, which features flying witches, gypsies and talking bears, Kidman and Craig play star-crossed lovers. She is the wickedly manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and he is the adventurer and scholar Lord Asriel. In the film’s climax, the two play out their one romantic scene on the North Pole, while straddling two universes. Director Chris Weitz (About a Boy) says that although the sequence was shot on a sound stage with 60-foot ceilings, a green-screen backdrop and giant fans blowing fake snow, the result is a ‘great sentimental moment- a throwback to the moment Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara says goodbye.’

    Kidman is known for her seriousness on the set, and Weitz says it never once flagged during The Golden Compass: ‘Even when she was clutching the Day-Glo green beanbag- which in the film will be a golden monkey – she was intense. There’s a real veracity, a real humanity to her acting.’

  30. daemon_hadevir says:

    "Even when she was clutching the Day-Glo green beanbag- which in the film will be a golden monkey – she was intense."

    that's what shows us how good an actor/actress can be…
    i mean, pretend that a beanbag is our dear soul… :wassat: *clap*

  31. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    I know Nicole will do it just fantastic!
    i've always think she's so professional! :tongue:

  32. Alewyn says:

    a few days before i started reading tgc, i saw moulin rouge.

    when i read about coulter, the only person i could picture was kidman…and i didn't even know her name back then!

    but it's weird, cuz when i was little i used to pretend to be her character from batman and now she's my favorite actress starring in my favorite books.

  33. WEN says:

    Shaye Previews New Line Slate

    Robert Shaye, chief executive officer of New Line Cinema, offered SCI FI Wire a preview of the company's upcoming genre releases, which include the much-anticipated The Golden Compass, a fantasy thriller based on the first of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels. Chris Weitz directs a cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green and Dakota Blue Richards; it opens in December.

    "The Golden Compass is going to be a terrific movie," Shaye said in an interview while promoting The Last Mimzy, an SF family drama he directed for his studio. "I really think it's exciting. I think Chris Weitz is an enormously talented guy. He's written a great script. He's a wonderful collaborator, and he's a guy I have a lot of respect for intellectually and creatively. I think Nicole Kidman has done a wonderful job. Daniel Craig has done an extraordinary job. The little girl, Dakota Blue, … everybody has just been fantastic. And I have hopes that it will resonate to some degree. … I think Lord of the Rings is very sui generis, but I have hopes that [Compass is] going to be a movie that the world will embrace."

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39468

  34. WEN says:

    The guy sure sounds enthusiastic about the movie. But then, I guess that's his job. :laughing: I can't wait until this movie opens!!!!

  35. lord rokey r says:

    really!? what's the lyra like?
    how are they gonna do the gallivespians!???????????
    x tell moi whever reads this!

  36. silvertongue says:

    alewyn .. HOW CULD YUU NOT KNO ABUUT KIDMAN!? soz i had to say tht!!!!!! she is famous here (australia) coming from here! she is sooo great i always imagnined her as mrs coulter coz i imagined her with blonde hair anywayz :laughing: but yer =)

  37. Reedie_Belacqua says:

    Alewyn!
    I didn't watch moulin rouge before the books, actually, i saw that movie fo first time a few months ago.
    But i did know Kidman, and while i was reading the books, i was thinking "hey, if this where a movie, Kidman would be perfect as mrs coulter" :]

    So you can imagine how happy i was when i noticed kidman was chosen as coulter *.*

  38. mERCURY says:

    THESE pictures are marveloussss!!!!!!!!!But I agree we- all fanarts need more and we must have them!!I want Coulter and Asriel TOGETHERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! :laughing: