Narnia!

OY · 19-05-2005 1:58am #1

I know it is a kids movie and the first half a minute of the trailer is boring but it gets interesting towards the end... plus i liked the book as a kid!

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Aslan looks cool!

halenger · 19-05-2005 9:47am

Finally some actual footage. I watched the other two "features" when they came out. Really looking forward to this. Looks really good. Not sure you can call it a kids flick. It's an anyone flick. It's the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to be quite honest.

Can't wait...

hshortt · 19-05-2005 9:58am

I love surprise like this! Thanks for the link OY! Looks like a winner to me, close enough to the book which I think most people loved. I'm actually as excited about this as I was when I seen the first clips of LOTR trailers.

I love Turkish delight too.....

LoneGunM@n · 19-05-2005 10:02am

Ooooohh ... I'm really looking forward to seeing that.

I agree with halenger, it is an anyone flick ... I'm sure most people have read the books & seen the tv programme, so this will more than likely appeal to them too.

ferdi · 19-05-2005 10:02am

as a long time narnia fan.....this son of adam cant wait. its obviously jumping on the lotr bandwagon but who cares.

Tristram · 19-05-2005 12:55pm

Cant wait either.Really excited about it.

nadir · 19-05-2005 1:31pm

so long as its not religious propaganda, im all up for it.
Prince caspian was a good book.

Karl Hungus · 19-05-2005 6:50pm

Saw the trailer last night, and I was damned impressed! Definetly be on the lookout for this so.

herobear · 19-05-2005 6:54pm

nadir wrote:

so long as its not religious propaganda, im all up for it.

y'know it will be, its way less subtle than lotr

no real interest in this, looks like a sub par lotr(and im not even a fan)

uberwolf · 19-05-2005 7:11pm

I'm looking forward to this actually

athena 2000 · 20-05-2005 5:08am

OY wrote:

Aslan looks cool!

"But who is Aslan? Do you know him?"

Eep, that trailer gave me a goosebumps! The books were wonderful.

billy the squid · 20-05-2005 5:20am

I thought the Magicians Nephew was the first Chronicle of Narnia..

athena 2000 · 20-05-2005 7:17am

Billy, The Magician's Nephew is book 6 in the chronicles.

madrab · 20-05-2005 11:40am

athena 2000 wrote:

"But who is Aslan? Do you know him?"

Eep, that trailer gave me a goosebumps! The books were wonderful.

yep gave me goosebumps as well looks interesting

dudara · 20-05-2005 12:18pm

But the Magician's Nephew is set before the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. It always struck me as a very odd book, when compared to the rest.

I remember crying during the BBC version of the Dawntreader, when that little guy set off in his boat on his own.

I'm really looking forward to this one. Roll on

Larianne · 20-05-2005 12:29pm

I never actually read the books. I watched the BBC production. Which was great. The Ice queen scared me so much I didn't go near turkish delight for years!! I swear. And we have an antique wardrobe. Time was spent in there looking for the door. I went asleep in there one night when I was small.
Can't wait to see it and Willy Wonka and Sin City! YAY!!

americanCat · 20-05-2005 2:37pm

wow that looks great!! It definitely looks waay better than the last chronicles of narnia movie made. The last one had a mechanical aslan and reminded me of the Neverending Story for some reason. I loved the books and i'd love to see how well disney can do the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. ^___^
I guess i should reread the books then ^^;

Scarinae · 20-05-2005 3:59pm

athena 2000 wrote:

Billy, The Magician's Nephew is book 6 in the chronicles.

It was written sixth but it's actually the first book. If you look at any set of the books, it's placed before 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'.
Maybe they're just taking the same route as the BBC TV series, and will leave out 'The Magician's Nephew', 'The Horse and his Boy' and 'The Last Battle'... It would be a shame, but they don't fit in so well with the other four (Especially 'The Horse and his Boy', which is set during the time of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'). Anyway, this one is the most well-known and the most popular of the Chronicles, that's probably why they chose to make it. I can't wait until it comes out! I absolutely adore the books, and I'd say they'll do a much better job than the TV series

athena 2000 · 20-05-2005 4:16pm

True, 'The Magician's Nephew' is set before 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' in the timeline, and is about the how Aslan created Narnia. In my set of the chronicles it is placed 6th.

Here is a larger screen sized trailer to view.
It's worth the wait for the loading time.

Thanks to OY for this thread!

OY · 20-05-2005 8:40pm

I went to see the Sith last night and this trailer was shown in the previews...
If you guys think it looks good here wait till you see it at the pictures!

billy the squid · 21-05-2005 2:53am

In my set of the Chronicles of Narnia the Magicians Nephew is number 1

The ones I have are

Tha Magicians Nephew
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

A bit of googleing reveals that The Lion The Witch and the wardrobe was published five years before the Magicians nephew but

C. S. Lewis wrote back to the boy, saying, "I think I agree with your order for reading the books more than with your mother's," and soon afterward the publishers began to number them in this way. But Lewis, who had written bits and pieces of the books at different times, also noted that the order probably didn't much matter: "I'm not even sure that all the [books] were written in the same order in which they were published."

link

If they are going to make "The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe" the first movie in a series then Lets hope that they make all seven of them. If they want to make them in the order of their original publication date, then so be it.

All in all anything that gets kids today to reed boks can only be a good thing, although the Narnia books would be considered very short compared to the likes of the Harry Potter series.

Narnia!

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