Adaptations & Media

It’s confirmed that one of the Hobbits out of the four from India was severly injured during the LWW shoot in NZ. “Swamy,” the short actor from India, sustained a severe injury on his foot and was operated in NZ. Though he has been sent back to India he still can’t resume normal work.
From Narnian Spy “Paromila”

Nicole let us know that JoBlo.com has a list of the most anticipated movies of 2005. With your help, we can move Narnia up from #13.

Though remaining focused on big-budget action films, several big studios are turning to Walden Media to capture some of the family-film market.

With the building expectation for the feature-film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, BBC Audio Books have recently reissued Brian Sibley’s classic radio dramatization of CS Lewis’ entire Chronicles of Narnia (from The Magician’s Nephew to The Last Battle) in a limited edition.

The filming of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has wrapped in New Zealand. We have received word from our sources that the four children are on their way home tomorrow, December 19th, and that director Andrew Adamson was very happy with their performance.

Great scans of the four children from the English Daily Mail. You can read the original article at Baz Bamigboye’s daily gossip column.

Download the Preview now! I’m working on getting screencaps up. Would have had them up sooner, but I received “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Special Extended DVD Edition” a day early, and you know what that means. I spent most of the evening visiting Middle-earth!

Anyway, the preview of Narnia is available for download at some links below, and I’ve taken 1000 screenshots and cut it down to 100:
First 25 shots
75 More shots

AICN runs a marathon viewing of movies that runs for a 24 hour period once a year, and each year they get sneak peeks at movies that are sometimes still in production, and others that are soon to come, along with trailers and behind the scenes for movies that are coming much much later. This time, they were treated to a behind the scenes clip from Narnia. Apparently the Minotaur stood out as the centerpiece of what they saw.