The howling of wolves might be something residents of Tuakau, south of Auckland, will have to get used to. Ten wolves have been brought in from Los Angeles for filming on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The pack, which includes seven males and three females, is being housed at Mark Vette’s Animal Rescue. Two siblings, Ricky and Bob, will play the key characters Maugrim and Vardan.
Production of the film will move south from November 1, when Queenstown, Oamaru and Canterbury will feature.
Mark Sommer is currently in the midst of writing a series of articles on previous Narnia adaptations, such as the BBC Radio Drama and the Focus on the Family Radio Drama. Previous articles in the […]
Filming C.S. Lewis’ masterwork, the seven books that compose the Chronicles of Narnia, has been something of an impossible dream for decades. Ever since the first of the books, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” was published in 1950, children and adults have adored them alike – they have been perennial bestsellers for more than 50 years. The history of Narnia has everything: magic, adventure, tragedy, humor, and triumph — it’s not surprising that Hollywood has longed to bring it to the big screen. […]
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a beloved children’s book about four British schoolchildren who pass through a wardrobe into a magic land where a witch has made it always winter and never Christmas. There they meet Aslan, the lion of the title, who offers his own life to the witch to atone for the treachery of one of the siblings. […]
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