Hatrack River Forum: New "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" featurette!

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Here!

Aaaah! The Witch's courtyard!

Aaaah! Rumblebuffin!

Aaaah! Satyrs and unicorns!

Aaaah! Monstrous soldiers!

Aaaah! Peter in armor!

Aaaah! Concept art and story-boards of Aslan!

Aaaah! The secret wolf police!

AAAAAH!

Can you tell I'm excited? [Big Grin]

[ February 22, 2005, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Eeep!

I am definitely looking forward to it with great anticipation.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

It's not working for me!

*weeps*

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Darn it! The page has gone down! [Frown]

Well, hopefully they'll get it up again soon. It's really cool, trust me.

EDIT: It seems to be back up! [Smile]

[ February 22, 2005, 06:02 PM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

A couple of images from the upcoming Narnia action figure/toy line have also been released.

A centaur knight, two minotaur warriors and a cyclops.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

*bounce*

I'm so excited!!!!

Also: It's really confusing to me to see the (now highly distinctive) landscape of New Zealand and the (Now Highly Familiar- I'm an art direction commentary addict) voice of Richard Taylor in a combination that does not equal LotR. It's almost... impossible for my mind to comprehend.

Also #2: I need to go to New Zealand. Now.

Also #3: I wish I was an artist (that I had persued visual art more thoroughly) so I could draw things.

Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :

(On a totally unrealated tangent: Puffy Treat-I cannot see your name without giggling. Just thought you would want to know)

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

My name is a reference to a treat I baked on my mission- "Magic Marshmallow Cresent Puffs".

It lead to me getting tagged with the nickname "Puffy". [Big Grin]

Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :

Should someone on a mission be eating something that is "Magic"? [No No]

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Magic in baking! It's just fine. Trust me. [Wink]

Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :

*dances* I can't wait!

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

I'm a little nervous about a director who has only done one other movie, Shrek, and that was animated. But he seems to know what he is doing on this one. It all looks good.

I kinda hope they get someone else to do the other ones, like how Harry Potter movies switche around to new directors. Especially with the characters changing around in the later movies.

I don't even think they can make all the books into movies. It'll be hard to make The Magician's Nephew, even though it does explain how Jadis got to Narnia.

I've always wondered how they will use all the extra time they have. All of the Chronicles of Narnia are about the size of the Fellowship of the Ring, or maybe the fellowship and half of Two towers, and in those books they crammed it into three movies and left so much out. These books are tiny in comparison. I guess that just means more room for detail, I hope. They'll have few excuses for leaving things out.

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Too bad Pier Paolo Pasolini is dead. I bet he would've done a great job with the magic children dream of. [Razz]

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I love Weta.

I love New Zealand.

I love Weta.

I can't wait for this movie!

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Andrew Adamson has done two other movies, Shrek and Shrek 2.

They aren't planning to leave anything out...they are planning to greatly expand on a couple of sections of the book.

Confirmed are:

The evacuation of the children from London (one line in the book, much more detailed in the film)

The Beavers and the three Pevensies flee from the Wolf Police (punched up for dramatic tension)

The climactic battle between the army of Jadis and Aslan's Narnians (only a page and a half in the book, vastly enlarged into a full-blown sequence for the movie.)

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

There is a spy report that there will be a brand new scene in which Edmund encounters the imprisoned Mr. Tumnus at the Witch's palace (before the faun is turned to stone, obviously)...but this conflicts with a couple of other spy reports and is unconfirmed.