His Dark Materials: Lin-Manuel Miranda Goes Behind The Scenes, Plus New Clips!

His Dark Materials is home to countless beloved characters. Of course, you have the likes of Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, and Iorek Byrnison, but one of my personal favorites was the Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby. The original 2007 Golden Compass film hired the great Sam Elliot to take on the character, and while I do love Sam Elliot, he did always feel a bit old to me compared to what I’d imagined in the book.

With the His Dark Materials HBO and BBC series, they have hired Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to play the aeronaut. While he isn’t exactly how I pictured him, he certainly feel a bit closer in terms of age and feel than Elliot was — plus I like the idea of a Latino playing a Texan, as it’s very fitting, given the history of the state (though Texas is a country in the books).

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In a video that hit last week, Miranda went behind the scenes of the production. Check it out down below!

There are a lot of fun little tidbits. We see the new design of his balloon on a green screen, and go a bit into who Lee Scoresby is in the story. Most interestingly though, we have a couple of scenes featuring Lee. One shows him singing with his daemon Hester as he flies over the clouds, and another shows the two debating on whether or not to help out the armored bear Iorek Byrnison, in spite of the bear not actually asking for it.

What I really love here is that it really shows we’ll be spending some time to get to know him. Because of the short runtime of The Golden Compass, we never really got to know anyone outside of Lyra’s perspective, which was a shame for a story so epic in scope.

What do you think of the new video? Does it get you more amped for the early November premiere of His Dark Materials? Let us know your thoughts down below!

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