The first season of the critically acclaimed series, His Dark Materials, based on the iconic book series is coming to Blu-Ray and DVD later this Summer.
If you missed out on His Dark Materials when it was airing (or just want to enjoy some more physical media since it’s already available digitally) you’ll get the chance to enjoy it when it arrives on Blu-Ray. HBO/WB have announced the complete first season will arrive on DVD/Blu-Ray on August 4, 2020 with a handful of bonus features to enjoy:
His Dark Materials takes place in a world parallel to our own, where a human’s soul exists outside one’s body in the form of a talking animal called a “daemon.” The all-powerful Magisterium rule over this world where they suppress any knowledge that attempts to challenge its ideas, particularly around the theory that multiple worlds exist. Season One of this compelling HBO series follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a young orphan who was left as a baby at Oxford’s Jordan College by her uncle Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) and desires a life of adventure beyond the confines of her bookish, scholarly surroundings. But when Lyra’s best friend goes missing, her search for her kidnapped friend uncovers a plot involving stolen children and transforms into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon known as Dust. Over the course of the season, as she journeys through the different worlds – including our own – Lyra encounters extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living and the dead at stake.
In addition to Dafne Keen (Logan, the Refugees) as Lyra and James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) as Lord Asriel, the ensemble cast features Golden Globe Winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair) as Mrs. Coulter; Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) as the adventurer Lee Scoresby; Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) as The Master of Jordan College; Lewin Lloyd (The Aeronauts) as Lyra’s missing friend Roger Parslow; James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game of Thrones) as Farder Coram and Anne-Marie Duff as Ma Costa, who are part of the boat-dwelling Gyptian community; and Will Keen as Father MacPhail and Ariyon Bakare as Lord Boreal, both ministers for the Magisterium.
8 ONE-HOUR EPISODES
Lyra’s Jordan
The Idea of North
The Spies
Armour
The Lost Boy
The Daemon-Cages
The Fight to the Death
Betrayal
SPECIAL FEATURES
Making His Dark Materials (**Exclusive to Blu-ray and DVD)
Dafne Keen: Bringing Lyra Belacqua to Life
Ruth Wilson: Bringing Mrs. Coulter to Life
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Bringing Lee Scoresby to Life
James McAvoy: Bringing Lord Asriel to Life
Adapting His Dark Materials
The Daemons of His Dark Materials
Dressing His Dark Materials
Building His Dark Materials
Will you be picking this up in August?
