
The BBC has confirmed that the following characters will all feature: Lyra (Dafne Keen), Will (Amir Wilson), Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson), Mary Malone (Simone Kirby), Serafina Pekkala (Ruta Gedmintas), Father MacPhail (Will Keen) and Lord Asriel (James McAvoy). "I like stories told really slowly and that kind of like, 'Let's really dig into this,' but truthfully that was me just longing to go on making His Dark Materials all of my life, and actually, The Amber Spyglass is quite right adapted into eight episodes and I will fully and humbly admit I was completely wrong and talking out my butt." His Dark Materials season 3 cast: Who's coming back? I really like the real estate of television. You can't always have what you want," executive producer Jane Tranter told Deadline. "I wanted to split it in two, but we're doing it in one. At one point, the final book's story was going to be split in two seasons rather than one, but unfortunately it wasn't possible to make it work.
