The amazing array of movie presentations at Comic-Con International in San Diego wrapped-up with some very special surprises and announcements during the panel for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, based on the series of books from C.S. Lewis. Those who decided to skip out on the convention after Saturday’s full day certainly missed out on a great preview of what to expect from the film.

Walt Disney Pictures confirmed on Sunday at the San Diego Comic-Con that Liam Neeson (Batman Begins) will voice Aslan the Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, opening December 9. Brian Cox was previously expected to voice the role.

Rebecca St. James performed her new single Lion at the International Christian Retail Sales conference in Denver this week.

Spoilers are here, so anyone who hasn’t read LWW, you’ll want to avoid this until you read the book. “It’s being made the way the Holy Spirit of God wants it made and that’s what’s important.” When he left the meeting of the C.S. Lewis foundation to head to his other engagement, he asked them to “Please pray for the movie, too.”

Take this with a grain of salt, it came anonymously: “Liam Neeson will be the voice of Aslan. Hes recorded his dialogue and the animation is proceeding nicely.”

At the end of the final installment of the Chronicles of Narnia, Susan is the only one of the Pevensies not present in the “true” Narnia — even the Pevensie parents, who have had no role whatever in the adventures, are there, just across the way, apparently in the “true England.” The catch, of course, is that all have apparently perished in a railway accident in our world; making this Lewis’ presentation of heaven: new and perfect lands where old things we treasured and lost are once again waiting for us.

‘Conversion’ is a word I would tend to use in reference to turning metric to imperial, or Pounds Sterling into Euros. It also has its other meaning, the one which means to change your religion or alter your spiritual path. It is certainly not a word I would ever use about myself.
I prefer the word ‘evolution’.

In one sense, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader “picks up” the story line of Prince Caspian, giving us a glimpse of Caspian’s reign as King of Narnia. And while it’s also true that Caspian’s character is only here fully realized, Dawn Treader is still no retread of the earlier books. In this story, we go to sea and are entertained in the fashion of classic tales like The Odyssey and Gulliver’s Travels. We haven’t seen the likes of this in Narnia before.