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Oct
Next to the monumental pile of cultural loss caused by the current pandemic is a short stack of lucky escapes – the projects that just squeaked inside the line, or were able to retool in such a way that kept them mercifully on schedule. His Dark Materials is just such a one. Filming on the second run had largely concluded by the end of 2019 (when it comes to child actors, you can’t afford to hang around for them to grow six inches and sprout a beard between seasons). And despite the extraordinarily heavy VFX burden on a show about talking creatures,…