AintItCoolNews was invited to London to view 45 minutes of Prince Caspian footage. They’ve written a particularly long review of the footage. But if you want to read it, be aware that they have some profanity. There are also MANY SPOILERS, so if you don’t want to be spoiled, or to put up with the profanity, then stay away. That being said, here are some portions of the review:
We start off with a bright star in the sky (I’m assuming that’ll be the transition between the Disney logo and the movie) and go over some really nice Weta model work of a dark castle and into a room, drawn in the screaming of a woman. She gives birth and a servant runs to tell the king of Telmarines that he just had a son.
The King is bearded like Leonidis in 300. He smiles and tells his servant to follow through on some order we don’t know about yet. Cut to young Caspian sleeping in his bed. He’s woken by his teacher, a chubby, spectacled wizard looking dude with flowing robes and a long white beard. There’s not much time and the teacher leads Caspian through a secret passage (via the wardrobe, of course) as the Telmarine guards enter the room and shoot an [boatload] of crossbow arrows into the draped bed.
Adamson and I talked about Reepicheep and how much I’m looking forward to seeing what Eddie Izzard brings to the fan-favorite violent sword-swinging mouse. Adamson said that he didn’t really find the character of Reepicheep until Izzard came in to record his dialogue. He had an idea, he said, but he came to find that he had subconsciously lifted a lot of his character for Puss N’ Boots when doing SHREK 2.
So, he couldn’t lock down a character that was different from Puss until he heard Izzard give his voice. Then things began clicking.
