Aslan

The panel featured Howard Berger (the B of KNB EFX), Dean Wright (visual effects designer), Richard Taylor and Ben Wootten (Weta peeps) live and in person and later featured director Andrew Adamson and all four of the kids from the movie via satellite. They were in London doing ADR (Addition Dialog Recording) for the film, but took the time to sit in on the panel discussion.

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.

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.”

‘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’.

Narnia spy BerninBush attended Creation Music Festival this week and heard Bethany Dillon sing her song “Hero,” which will be on the “Inspired By Narnia” soundtrack this September!

Hot on the heals of the Father Christmas and Mr. Tumnus images, comes a new image of Aslan, as well as a new image of Peter, Lucy and Susan climbing the side of a mountain, with the moon behind them.

No cutesy creatures. No anachronistic wisecracks. What rushes by is like flipping through a picture book full of rich images. Those who catch the preview of the epic adventure due out Dec. 9, either on TV or when a longer version is attached to the May 19 arrival of the Star Wars finale Revenge of the Sith, may ask themselves, “Can this be Disney?”