'His Dark Materials' Renewed for a Third and Final Season
It's official: His Dark Materials will return for a third season, officially bringing the story of Philip Pullman's trilogy to a close.
HBO and BBC One have renewed the series for an eight-episode final outing based on the third novel in Pullman's series, titled The Amber Spyglass. It is currently set to begin production in Cardiff, Wales in 2021.
The series follows the story of Lyra (Dafne Keene), a young girl from a world that's much like our own, with a few key differences: Namely, that pieces of human souls walk around in talking animal form (daemons). Her search for a kidnapped friend leads to dangerous discoveries about stolen children, dark experiments, and multiple universes. In Season 2, Lyra crosses into our Earth, where she meets Will Parry (Amir Wilson) who's running from a troubled past of his own. Together, they discover their destinies are entwined - with one another, and with two magical objects, a compass-like device known as an althieometer, and a knife that can cut between worlds. Meanwhile, Lyra's mother, the icy Mrs. Coulter (Ruth Wilson), is determined to bring her daughter home at any cost.
