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The Golden Compass is a fantasy film based on Northern Lights (published as The
Golden Compass in the U.S.), the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark
Materials, and was released on December 5, 2007 by New Line Cinema. It stars
Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Eva Green and Dakota Blue Richards. The project
was announced in February 2002, following the success of recent adaptations of
other fantasy epics, but troubles over the script and the selection of a director
caused significant delays. At US$180 million, it was one of New Line's most
expensive projects ever, and its middling success in the US contributed to New
Line's February 2008 restructuring.
The story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a fantastical parallel universe in which
a dogmatic theocracy called the Magisterium threatens to dominate the world.
When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to the far North in an attempt to
rescue him and rejoin her uncle.
Before its release, the film received criticism from secular organizations and fans of
His Dark Materials for the dilution of the religious elements from the novels, as well
as from some religious organizations for the source material's anti-Christian and
atheistic themes. The film met with mixed reviews, however it did gain both an
Academy Award and a BAFTA for visual effects; and, despite not meeting
expectations at the U.S. box office, was commercially successful taking in over
$372 million worldwide to date.
In a parallel universe (a person's soul resides outside the body in an animal-like
form called a "daemon", Europe is controlled by an authoritarian organization
called the Magisterium. In Oxford, orphaned Lyra Belacqua, a ward of Jordan
College, tells tales of the "Gobblers", whom she and her friends believe are
responsible for several local children's disappearance. Visiting the college is Lyra's
uncle, Lord Asriel, who, against official Magisterium doctrine, is presenting
evidence that particles called "Dust" exist. After Lyra saves Asriel from an
assassination attempt by a Magisterial representative, the college funds his
expedition to the far north to investigate the Dust substance. He believes it
originates in a parallel universe and enters a person's body via their dæmon.
Fearing the effects of Dust, the Magisterium has been experimenting on children to
discover a way to inoculate others against it.
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