New Pictures Golden Compass (dark Red Coat), *Update* more from bluebell added. P2 Options

[SparklingAda]

Oooo i cqan't wait to see Nicole "mean" lol. She looks kinda scary in that pic, Thanks so much.

[bejung]

:) so cool!

[skankyoldwhore]

Town makes silver screen debut
SUTTON Bridge is bracing itself for its silver screen debut.

Film crews will be in the town at the weekend shooting scenes at the Cross Keys Bridge for the blockbuster The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
Rumours that Sutton Bridge was to be the backdrop for scenes in either the latest Harry Potter instalment or the next James Bond film have been doing the rounds.
But publicist Susan Darcy has confirmed a secondary unit for The Golden Compass will film the bridge opening and closing as it allows a barge to sail through.
Workers were floating the dutch canal barge into the water at Fosdyke on Tuesday so it would be in place by the weekend.
When asked if the two stars will be in town Ms Darcy said she did not know what the full filming schedule contained.
She said: "We have a secondary unit in the area filming some shots which will be dropped into the main action.
"We have done some filming in Greenwich and have the main unit at Chatham and Nicole won't be back with us until November."
The Golden Compass is the first in a trilogy adapted from Philip Pullman's bestselling His Dark Materials series.
The film is written and directed by Chris Weisz, whose credits include About a Boy and Antz.
Lincolnshire Police have issued a notice to motorists warning of delays and road closures around the bridge but say diversions will be in place.
06 October 2006
http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle...ticleID=1805705

[friendlyfox]

Thanks for the update skanky.


So if you are in the UK and want to catch of glimpse of them filming, perhaps you will get a chance to see Nicole this weekend.

[skankyoldwhore]

Thanks for the update skanky. 
So if you are in the UK and want to catch of glimpse of them filming, perhaps you will get a chance to see Nicole this weekend.

You are welcome but no, Foxy, according to that article, she won't be onset until November.

This post has been edited by skankyoldwhore: Oct 8 2006, 11:48 AM

[Bluebell]

Thanks for the news. So perhaps Nicole will be able to make it to the ARIAS with Keith.

[Nicole]

Thanks skanky.

[skankyoldwhore]

September 2006

September message

Yes, here I am, at last. Various things have kept me away from the computer for too long, but I thought I`d let you know about my visit to Shepperton Studios the other day to see how the film of His Dark Materials is shaping up ...

But the first thing to say about the film is that the producers and director have assembled the greatest cast I could ever have hoped for. Dakota Blue Richards is Lyra to the life; Nicole Kidman is a magnificent Mrs Coulter; Daniel Craig is a Lord Asriel both powerful and daring. And it goes on: Tom Courtenay as Farder Corm, Jim Carter as Lord Faa, Clare Higgins as Ma Costa, Jack Shepherd as the Master of Jordan College, Eva Green as Serafina Pekkala, Simon McBurney as Fra Pavel - I`m astonished and delighted with every one of them, and with the others I haven`t got time to list. Take it from me: this is a brilliant cast.

The designs: not a great deal has been built yet, but I could see from the artwork how sumptuous and extraordinary this film will look. Dennis Gassner the designer has taken the look of our world, the world we call real, and added a little, and twisted a little, and enriched it a little, and come up with something which no-one could mistake for this world and yet which is reminiscent of it in a thousand ways. For me, as someone who likes to fool about making things out of wood, the best place in the whole studio was the workshop where they were making things: sledges, tables, guns, and the alethiometer. That was an extraordinary process. They use lasers that intersect at right angles (I think I`ve got it right) to etch the complex surface in resin, and then they make a mould from that and cast the casework in brass. The first one had come out of the mould just a couple of days before and was still being worked on, but the dial was in place (astonishing tiny paintings all perfectly realised) and I could see how the workings would move the hands and the needle. I bet it will work, too.

They were also working on the spy-flies. I suppose the term is animatronic: these are real objects, not collections of pixels - perfect creepy insects as big as my thumb, with minutely detailed legs and antennae, worked by a sort of joystick. They move, they turn their heads, they raise their wings, they chill your blood.

And the costumes!

Hundreds of them are in place already, hanging on their rails waiting to be put on. The gyptians look magnificent - rough and vivid patterned coats and boots; and Lyra`s dresses, from the slightly-too-small and shabby and often-repaired dress she has to wear at Jordan to the glamorous silken things Mrs Coulter buys for her in London, are beautifully right. Dakota told me that she never wears dresses in real life, but she loves wearing the pretty ones on the set. Like the designs for the sets, they are perfectly made to suggest something very like this world, but very subtly different.

Outside one of the great hangar-like studio buildings was an entire ship on the back of a gigantic lorry. It had come all the way from the Netherlands, and it was going to be transformed into the Costas` boat. And inside the buildings, giant ice-floes were being constructed.

I`ll tell you more once the filming is under way. For the moment, it all looks very good indeed, and I couldn`t be more pleased.
http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/conten....asp?PageID=127

[Kaleigh]

I like that color red on her.. she looks nice.

[RedSatinDoll]

Thanks skanky for the blog from Pullman (have I seen it before? No matter, we all eagerly await updates.) This is certainly a DEEP cast, which for me often marks the quality of films, that the "secondary parts" are not treated as throwaways. (Technically, isn't Mrs Coulter a supporting character in this?)

[BabyNick]

Thanx Skanky

~Viviana~

[sylv]

Thanks for all the pics. Wow.