For any Narnia fans out there....
For any Narnia fans out there....
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
For any Narnia fans out there....#0
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:49pm
http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/the_chronicles_of_narnia.html
This is a little featurette on the SFX of the movie...just a teaser but still enough to make get me excited for this movie...I hope they do it right.
Akiva
Narnia, the musical#1
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:52pm
I saw snippets of a musicalized Narnia years ago at the Donnell Library. Any word on what, if anything became of this?
Milla
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
WETA#2
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:56pmWETA is doing Narnia? They did an incredibly job with Lord of the Rings, I can't wait to see everything they do to bring Narnia to life.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Narnia, the musical#3
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:56pmThese stories are almost sacrosanct to me. And I'm not the only one. Be vewwey vewwy cahful....
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Narnia, the musical#5
Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:11pmThere was a cartoon version. Nuff said. There was a live ation BBC series that was ok. Aslan was animatronic & not my fav. The Gnomes were good tho.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
Narnia, the musical#6
Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:11pm
Yeah, CATS, BBC produced a few of them as mini-series a while ago. They were pretty darn good too. The special effects were prettty great for their time, if i remember correctly.
Akiva
Narnia, the musical#7
Posted: 12/24/04 at 5:51pmIs that the one where Brian Cox is the voice of Aslan? I can't get over the weirdness of that. But he's a good actor; I'll give it a chance. They can't possibly ruin it as badly as SciFi ruined the Earthsea books. Right?
Narnia, the musical#8
Posted: 12/24/04 at 5:57pmI think it is funny that they are starting with the second book (not neccesarily the second one written)
Narnia, the musical#9
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:00pm
Ah, yes, spider. It irks me to the highest extreme that they aren't starting with The Magician's Nephew
I understand it, I guess, since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has much more name recognition.
But still...
I adore the The Chronicles of Narnia
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Narnia, the musical#10
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:01pmI don't care about the stupid Magician's Nephew. The Lion, the Witch and the Wordrobe is the first book. So there. :P
Narnia, the musical#11
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:04pm
I just hope they do all books.
If they skip The Horse and His Boy, which they may very well do, I'm gonna be pissed.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Narnia, the musical#12
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:07pmAnd how politically incorrect (and, in my opinion, incorrect in general) is that story? Think about it, Priest.
Narnia, the musical#13
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:10pm
Well, yes, if you interpret it that way.
But I still love the story.
No novel, not even the Harry Potter books, can engross you and take you in better than The Chronicles.
God, I love them.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Narnia, the musical#14
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:12pm
I couldn't help but interpret it that way, even when I was a kid and didn't get that the whole thing had massive Biblical parallels.
ETA- I'd find it highly entertaining if they did it and switched the races around, though. Like the aforementioned Earthsea books, though the mini-series whitewashed it.
Updated On: 12/24/04 at 06:12 PM
Narnia, the musical#15
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:16pm
the musical sucks a$s. "The White Witch of Narnia Rules OK!" Oy...
http://www.nodanw.com/shows_l/lion_witch_wardrobe.htm
Updated On: 12/24/04 at 06:16 PM
The Chronicles#16
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:19pm
C.S. Lewis has got to be the most liberal, and the most brilliant, compelling and compassionate, Christian scholar of all-time.
I don't think he meant it that way at all.
His Signature Classics are some of the most powerful books I've ever read.
And Mere Christianity helped me so much to find my beliefs. I always found it so hard to know I shared the core of my faith with such bigots as many Christains now are, but he is so brilliant in his teachings.
A Christian scholar who believed in loving everyone, instead of hating anyone with different thinking because they think it makes them better people.
Now there's a change.
He is the man, alive or deceased, who I would have most liked to have met.
Yes, even more than Sondheim. But barely.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The Chronicles#17
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:22pmDon't worry; I'm not really bashing Lewis. I do like the Narnia books, and what I've read of The Four Loves was quite good, too. I just disagree with him on certain points.
The Chronicles#18
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:25pmAnd The Screwtape Letters some of the most brilliant and hysterical satire.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The Chronicles#19
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:35pmI might be wrong but wasn't the Magicians nephew written last as a prequel to what the chronicles were about, or am I just making this up? And yes, the chronicals rule. I haven't read the entire series, sadly. I haven't read the last two or three. I really need to get on that. PRONTO!
The Chronicles#20
Posted: 12/24/04 at 6:39pm
LWW was the first written.
When Lewis decided to make it a series, he wrote TMN as a prequel, correct.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
The Chronicles#21
Posted: 12/24/04 at 7:35pmThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my fav. It was such a quest type book and some of the most creative characters. & who wouldn't have wished to have the bullies of their schools give "the flat of the sword"?
The Chronicles#22
Posted: 12/24/04 at 7:46pmI used to be so obsessed with the books. I'm really hopping that they do make a movie of The Magician's Nephew at some point. I'd love to see how they'd do that.
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