His Dark Materials Releases First Trailer for Final Season

If you’ve by no means learn Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials guide trilogy however have watched the HBO collection, you could have been bewildered at how season two ended. Mrs. Coulter (Ruth Wilson) kidnapped her daughter Lyra (Dafne Keen), who could be a second Eve and considerably useless; literal angels have appeared; and Lyra’s father Asriel (James McAvoy) has been planning to stage a coup towards the Authority, aka God. As this primary trailer for season three reveals, issues are solely going to get wilder.

There’s a lot happening right here! Iorek Byrnison is again, the Magisterium is on the transfer, Mrs. Coulter will get arrested, Asriel has assembled a military of witches and rebellious angels, it seems like Will’s portal-creating Subtle Knife breaks, and Lyra appears to be visiting the underworld when she’s asleep—which suggests we get a really welcome reappearance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s aeronaut Lee Scoresby.

Based on the third and remaining quantity in Pullman’s trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, His Dark Materials’ epic remaining season premieres December 5 on HBO Max.

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