Lin-Manuel Miranda geeks out on His Dark Materials

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We'll be live blogging the show's first ever Hall H panel from 4:45pm PDT, and will update with more His Dark Materials news and details from San Diego Comic Con afterwards.

It would be hard for any television series to follow up something as grand and epic as Game Of Thrones.

His Dark Materials Season 1 on HBO premieres this fall.

Check out the new trailer below. Co-produced with the BBC, His Dark Materials was written by Jack Thorne, the screenwriter who also wrote Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Especially when it is filled with powerful compasses, attack monkeys, dirigibles, and armored bears.

But this extended trailer delivers much, much more, with Dafne Keen taking centre stage as Lyra Belacqua, the girl who discovers that children are being kidnapped by a shadowy organisation.

It's the second screen adaptation of the series, which was previously made into a movie in 2007.

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Honestly, this trailer included everything that sells His Dark Materials as a must-watch fantasy event, at least for the first episode.

On her journey to find her missing friend, Lyra receives a device called the aletheometer, recruits aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Lin Manuel Miranda) and his armoured polar bear friend, Iorek Byrinson, to help her free her friends and foil the Church's plans.

Her oncle, Lord Asriel (James McAvoy), is a resistor who will stop at nothing to prevent the Church and the Magisterium, its ruling authority, from continuing to cause harm.

Asked why she wanted to adapt His Dark Materials for TV, Tranter said: "I like a challenge. Together, they encounter extraordinary beings and risky secrets, with the fate of both the living - and the dead - in their hands".

Sir Philip's trilogy - consisting of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass - were controversial upon release due to their strong criticism of organised religion, with the author once describing them as being about "killing God".

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