Year: 2006

Last Friday, IGN had the opportunity to interview producer/screenwriter David Goyer, where he spoke at length about the novel “Here, There Be Dragons.” The rights for the novel have been snapped up by Warner Brothers, pushing the book up the sales charts very quickly. For example, Amazon pre-sales ranked the book around 5,000. On September 29th, with word spreading of the movie news, “Dragons” was ranking at 644. As of this writing, it is sitting at 1,493.

Our tenth episode of NarniaFansCast for Sunday October 1, 2006. Please send any comments, questions, or concerns to (NFC AT narniafans dot com). This includes a wrap-up of the news, John Burkitt and Paul Martin discuss the news, and then cover our latest frontier…audio performance of works posted on our forum, The Dancing Lawn!

A little bird has told us that Douglas Gresham (stepson of C.S. Lewis, and Narnia co-producer) recently attended a series of Prince Caspian meetings in Los Angeles. Apparently Gresham is very excited about how the movie is developing, and expressed that he is especially happy that almost all of the original Narnia team is back for the second installment.

Since The Lord of the Rings’ success, there have been many fantasy films released to try to cash in on the success. I think it’s a breath of fresh air, as far as movies are concerned. Afterall, movies are mostly fantasy anyway, depending on how you look at them. Recently, Peter Jackson has optioned a series called Temeraire.

We’ve just posted the ninth edition of the NarniaFans Mailbag. We’ve answered seven letters this week, including such topics as the age of Prince Caspian and ages of the actor they may cast for, and more!

Click here for the ninth NarniaFans Mailbag!

Shooting is scheduled to begin at end of January 2007 in New Zealand and Europe. At present submissions are ONLY required for the following roles : Males of Spanish or Mediterranean descent aged 30 to 60; female of Spanish or Mediterranean descent aged late 30s – all must be proficient speakers of English. Also sought are actors of restricted growth, male and female.

While Aslan flat-out IS Jesus Christ, many other characters in the Narnian stories can be called _analogies_ to something in the Bible.
However far his inventiveness ranged, Mr. Lewis did not forget about Scripture.

Has anybody here ever heard of a famous live-stage director named Stanislavsky? He is best remembered for a book titled “An Actor Prepares,” which was the main textbook in an acting course I took long ago. Stanislavsky begins by telling a humorous anecdote at his own expense.