The Golden Compass (2007)
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Jim Carter, Clare Higgins, Ben Walker, Charlie Rowe, Christopher Lee, Tom Courtenay, Derek Jacobi, Simon McBurney, Jack Shepherd, Magda Szubanski, Edward de Souza, Paul Antony-Barber, Jason Watkins, Hattie Morahan, Ian McKellen, Freddie Highmore, Ian McShane, Kathy Bates, Kristin Scott Thomas
The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film written and directed by Chris Weitz that is based on the 1995 novel Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, the first installment in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. It stars Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua, Nicole Kidman as Marisa Coulter, and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, alongside Sam Elliott, Ian McKellen, and Eva Green. In the film, Lyra joins a tribe of seafarers on a trip to the far North in search of children kidnapped by the Gobblers, a group supported by the universe's rulers, the Magisterium.