Erzählt wird die Geschichte des ersten Zusammentreffens des jungen Lee Scoresby mit Iorek Byrnison in einer kleinen Hafenstadt in der Arktis, 35 Jahre vor den Ereignissen von His Dark Materials. ###>In May 2006, Pullman said of a version of the script that "all the important scenes are there and will have their full value"; in March 2008, he said of the finished film that "a lot of things about it were good...