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Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

Several roles have been cast for "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe".

Tilda Swinton - The White Witch
Dawn French - Mrs. Beaver
James McAvoy - Mr. Tumnus
James Cosmo - Father Christmas
Rupert Everett - The Fox (voice)

Also, a pack of 10 north-american wolves have been cast as the witch's minions, a lion has been cast as Aslan, and a white horse named George has been cast as a unicorn. The cast of reindeers, however, were not allowed into New Zealand.

[ August 11, 2004, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]

Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :

:: giddy with fanboy pleasure ::
Satyagraha

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I anticipated the Star Wars prequels with rabit fan-boy anticipation. They were lame.

So I decided to not anticipate the LotR movies, but I'd go see them sometime. They rocked.

Therefore, I jump to the conclusion that it's my fault. I refuse to anticipate this movie. It will probably butcher everything good about the story.

There. Now it has a chance of being good.

Posted by Anti-Christ (Member # 5714) on :

Rabbit fanboy? What, you mean BEHIND the bunny?

Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :

Why do they always pick the ugliest most roman nosed nags around to be "beautiful" horses? The horse that played shadowfax wasn't particularly pretty, and neither is this guy. Don't they have HORSE people pick horses for movies?

Ni!

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that every role in this movie was going to be played by Elijah Wood.

That still seems totally possible, so I'm reluctant to believe any of this.

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

horse people would make it too hard on director's, they would expect such weird things, like fresians and andalusians.

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

*is excited!!!*

Thanks for the update David!

(and thanks for starting a topic on which I can post easily and painlessly without a really long and eventually deleted reply. [Big Grin]

)

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

I thought this was going to be about Cecily's fly-fishing weekend.

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

Cecily: [Wink]

Katharina: [ROFL]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

quote:
Rupert Everett - The Fox (voice)

*applauds vigorously* This is PERFECT. [Big Grin]

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

THE KIDS AND PROFESSOR KIRKE HAVE BEEN CAST!!!!

Peter -- William Moseley, 17

Susan -- Anna Popplewell, 15

Edmund -- Skandar Keynes, 12

Lucy -- Georgie Henley, 9

Professor Kirke -- Jim Broadbent

(link)

(better link)
[The Wave]

[ July 12, 2004, 08:41 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

They seem a little old... don't they to anyone else? I always imagined them all a bit closer together and Lucy about seven?

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

Well, what usually happens is that child actors are a few years older than they look. The actor's ages will not necessarily be the implied ages of the characters. But they're alot closer to how I pictured them than the actors in the BBC version, so their age is not really going to bother me.

Arrgh! Why can't they FINISH it already! I wanna see it NOW! [Big Grin]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Ah. I actually noticed the links this time. They do look a lot younger than they say they are. They all like kind of the ages I imagined them at...

...nevermind...

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

More Casting Announcements:

quote:
Elizabeth Hawthorne: Mrs. Macready
Patrick Kake: Oreius, Aslan’s head Centaur
Kiran Shah: Ginarrbrik, the dwarfish sleigh driver
Shane Rangi: Gen. Otman, Minotaur leader of the White Witch's forces
Judy McIntosh: Pevensie Mother

(Sorry, I looked and looked but couldn't find any photos for most of these actors, except for the ones on the casting page at Narniaweb.com)

[ July 15, 2004, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

[Big Grin]

I can't wait!

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

hmmm...I think that digging_holes must be British. The British write dates like dd/mm/yyyy, Americans write it like mm/dd/yyyy.

Just a thought. [Smile]

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

No. I'm Canadian.

But it's because I'm a Quebecer, really. We write it that way in french too. Actually, only Americans write it backwards. [Taunt]

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

Well, I was close.
Oh, and the British drive on the wrong side of the road, too. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

It's so they can fight people with their swords.

And doesn't it make sense to write the date littler/bigger/biggest? I always thought so.

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

It makes more sense for filing to write dates with the year first.

040715
040716
040717
etc....

Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :

quote:
I thought this was going to be about Cecily's fly-fishing weekend.

That what got my attention.

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

The white witch rides a unicorn?

WHAT?

When did that happen in the book?

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

In Russia they do the date that way as well.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

ditto with Scott R...

AJ

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

I posted a link to this over on the side... there's a new fantasy anthology edited by Al Sarrantonio called Flights that just came out; besides having a new OSC story in it [Smile]

it also has a fun story by Neil Gaiman called "The Problem of Susan" that's about Susan and the Narnia books... very interesting, Gaiman-esque weirdness that I liked muchly...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451459776/qid=1091136096/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-8209359-0076667

Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :

I like Gaiman weirdness, but I found that story to be disgusting **SPOILER** Aslan and the Witch eat the children then do the nasty**END SPOILER** and I regret reading it.

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

James McAvoy was so awesome as Leto II in the "Children of Dune" miniseries. He was brilliant, gorgeous, enchanting, mysterious, charming, perfect. I was so psyched to see him on the cast for the Narnia film!

-----as Mr. Tumnus? That seems... awkward... to me.

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

Yozhik, I regret even reading that spoiler!

ugh [Angst]

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

Yep, Gaiman's story definitely isn't for kids (and not for some adults too)... but I do like it as a commentary on kids' books... I don't want to say more without spoiling Gaiman's story, but I liked it as a comment on/explanation of some of the annoying and sanctimonious aspects of the Narnia books

(I read the Narnia books as a kid and I loved them, though a few aspects left me unsettled -- mostly the theology of the last book. Looking at them as an adult, I can still appreciate the imagination, and a lot of the moral lessons... but there's too much, what, theological smugness? that leaves a bad taste for me.)

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

Just updating to let you know that Ray Winstone has been cast as the voice of Mr. Beaver. [Smile]

EDIT: Also, I forgot to mention that filming is now underway!
[The Wave]

[ August 11, 2004, 07:46 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]