The Golden Compass is a 2007 British-American fantasy-adventure film based on Northern Lights, the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Written and as a consequence directed by Chris Weitz, it famous actors Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Avoi Green, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Lee, Nicole Kidman and Sam Elliott. The activity was announced in February 2002, when you follow the success of recent adaptations together with other fantasy epics, but troubles greater than the script and the selection of most a director caused significant delays. Near US$180 million, it was one concerning New Line Cinema's most expensive tasks ever, and its middling success in about the USA contributed to New Line's February 2008 restructuring.
The story depicts the outings of Lyra Belacqua, an orphan living in a parallel environment on a world that physical appearance much like our own. Through Lyra's world, a dogmatic owning power called the Magisterium will conspiring to end tolerance and after that free inquiry. Poor, orphan, and Gyptian children are disappearing in the hands of a group the children call the Gobblers. when Lyra discovers that Mrs. Coulter is running the Gobblers, your girl flees. Rescued by the Gyptians, Lyra joins them on a visit to the far north, to be able to the land of the armored polar bears, in search of the the missing children.
Before its release, the the silver screen received criticism from secularist companies and fans of His Brown Materials for the dilution of the the anti-religious elements from unquestionably the novels, as well as between some religious organisations for the particular source material's anti-Catholic themes. Usually the studio ordered significant changes latter in post-production, which Weitz later called a "terrible" experience. although the film's visual effects (which Weitz has called the film's "most successful element") won each and every a BAFTA and an School Award, critical reception was put together.