With filming on Casino Royale finished Bond girl Eva Green is set to join Nicole Kidman in The Golden Compass for New Line Cinema with filming set to begin on September 4.
Just two days ago it was announced that Kidman would play the villainous Mrs. Coulter, today it was announced that Green will star as the queen of witches, Serafina Pekula, the witch who guides Lyra Belacqua (to be played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards) on her journey to a parallel universe. Nicole Kidman was just set to play the villain Mrs. Coulter.
The film is the first installment of a potential trilogy based on Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials.”
Chris Weitz is directing the picture which is currently set for a November 16, 2007 release.
