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Swinton: Narnia’s White Witch! McAvoy: Tumnus?

May 7, 2004 Paul Martin 0
The part is one of the biggest movie roles of the year – and Tilda Swinton has landed it. She will play the wicked White Witch who rules as the ice queen of Narnia, the fictional land created by C. S. Lewis where it’s always winter but never Christmas, in his classic novel The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

James McAvoy, one of the stars of award-winning TV drama State Of Play and TV series Shameless, is rumoured to have been offered the role of Mr Tumnus, the Narnian creature who tries to help the children after they stumble into his world via an old wardrobe.

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Narnia Casting Call Draws 300 Hopefuls for LWW

May 3, 2004 Paul Martin 0
Braving rain, 300 tall and short people turned out to the Auckland casting call for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

And the film’s officials had a message for those who stayed away: “If you can’t handle the rain you can’t handle a film set,” said extras casting co-ordinator Victoria Cole.

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Gregson-Williams to score Narnia adventure

April 29, 2004 Paul Martin 0
The prolific Harry Gregson-Williams has landed yet another major scoring assignment – perhaps his most prestigious so far. He will compose the music for Disney’s and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. The film is directed by Andrew Adamson with whom Gregson-Williams just worked on Shrek 2 as well as its popular 2001 predecessor.

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CS Lewis: Collected Letters Volume II

April 17, 2004 Paul Martin 0
This is a big book. It’s not to be read at one sitting. It’s for dipping in and out. Lewis was plainly a hugely gifted man and I found his letters endlessly fascinating. When he’s writing to his fellow Christians he can be profundity itself. In one he describes an evening spent with fellow theologians (including Tolkien) mulling over Matthew 7:14.

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Has Peter been Cast?

March 23, 2004 Paul Martin 0
DarkHorizons is reporting today that unknown actor Christopher Anderson-Peters (‘The Captives’) is rumoured to play the oldest of the four kids in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (that’d be Peter). IMDb.com doesn’t seem to have a listing for the actor or the film, so anyone who has some info on this fellow; we’d love to hear it!

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