So anyone looking for a great new mythic fantasy adventure to watch with great storytelling, amazing characters and actors, direction and insanely beautiful design, I can't recommend His Dark Materials highly enough.
I read the books a few years ago and they've nailed them beautifully. It's based on a trilogy by Philip Pullman that's a re-imagining of Paradise Lost except it doesn't mourn lost innocence as much as celebrate growth and knowledge.
Yeah, fantastic. Right up there in terms of this genre with Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling.
The protoganist of His Dark Materials is a young teen girl too, which is something for anyone who wants a main character as great as Harry Potter, but for girls.
I have no idea how they're going to pull off the weirdness in the third book of the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. LOL. That's going to be cool to see.
@TheAbbotTrithemius the books were really good