Daniel Craig made his film debut in one of my favourite movies The Power of One, but recently Daniel Craig is getting a lot of buzz for the upcoming James Bond Casino Royale movie, but it looks like he isn’t allowing himself to simply rest on his 007 credentials. He is slated to appear with Nicole Kidman in His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass.
The feature, written and directed by Chris Weitz, is the the first installment of an intended trilogy based on the Philip Pullman series ‘His Dark Materials’. Craig will play Lord Asriel, a ruthless and mysterious adventurer who is the uncle of Lyra Belacqua, the young girl who journeys to a parallel universe to save her best friend.
The story does sound a little like a DrWho story, and with a british lead, it might not be hard to make if feel that way. At least to non brits. Us people on this side of the pond only see what British Scifi the networks WANT us to see, so it all sounds like DrWho to us.
Cross dimensional travels, adventure, and intrigue … and Kidman. All sounds good to me.
