Next week, he can be seen in a small part in the Paul Bettany/Kirsten Dunst romance Wimbledon and, once he’s finished this interview, he’s going back to London to pack his bags for New Zealand, where he’s about to spend six months playing Mr Tumnus – a faun – in the big-budget adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe alongside Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett. “It’s a cliche but it was one of my favourite books when I was a child,” he says. “It terrified me but I loved it.”
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Narnia Gets McAvoy’s Goat
James McAvoy, who plays the half-human, half-goat Mr. Tumnus in the upcoming fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, told SCI FI Wire that the character’s goat-like leg was realized with computer imagery, but he still needed to get around on set as if he had a human torso and a large, single goat leg. […]
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It’s Official: James McAvoy is Mr. Tumnus
Variety confirms that British actor James McAvoy has been cast as Mr. Tumnus the faun in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Walden Media/Disney co-production, based on the first book in the classic C.S. Lewis series of children’s novels, is due to shoot this summer in New Zealand, directed by Andrew Adamson. […]
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Concept Artwork
Daan Almighty sent us a load of new concept art images. He took photos of them at a recent narnia event in Amsterdam (at which, he said, the lighting was terrible, sorry for that). SPOILERS! […]