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Producer Mark Johnson talks Narnia

Wait, you start shooting in five days? I’ve only heard about two confirmed cast members. There must be more people onboard now besides Tilda Swinton and James McAvoy.
I’m not talking (laughing). No, do you know what it is? It stars four young unknown British kids so I could give you their names but they won’t mean anything to you. […]

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It’s Official: James McAvoy is Mr. Tumnus

Variety confirms that British actor James McAvoy has been cast as Mr. Tumnus the faun in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Walden Media/Disney co-production, based on the first book in the classic C.S. Lewis series of children’s novels, is due to shoot this summer in New Zealand, directed by Andrew Adamson. […]

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

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. […]