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The Chronicles of Making ‘Narnia’ a Film

At the beginning of 2001, Perry Moore embarked on a quest. Moore, an executive with an untested movie company called Walden Media, dispatched an impassioned letter to the chief executive of C.S. Lewis Co., seeking movie rights to the “Chronicles of Narnia” fantasy novels. […]

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Will this ‘Lion’ roar?

At any given moment on any given day over the last 3 1/2 years, Andrew Adamson could have been fretting over fauns, goblins, unicorns, satyrs, ogres, sprites, centaurs and dryads. The director of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” might be found worrying about four actors so young the littlest member still sucks her thumb. Adamson may well have been occupied by a crew of up to 800 people, a budget of $180 million, and some 1,700 special effects shots. Or perhaps he was negotiating a story point with the C.S. Lewis estate, which was determined not to let Hollywood disfigure the author’s most famous book. […]

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Musicians Believe in ‘Narnia’

If Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” awakened movie studios to a huge religious market, Disney’s “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is trying to tap it for all it’s worth… […]