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Neeson to Star in “Taken”
Liam Neeson, who was the voice of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, will be staring in a film called “Taken.”
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Gregory Peck: The First Aslan
“We needed to find a way to model the performance to create the essence of the noble, all-powerful lion,” explained Dean Wright, the film’s Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor, “So we used Gregory Peck in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ His Atticus Finch performance has some of the same regal qualities we wanted, so we used frames of Peck from that film to create movements for Aslan. That helped us build our library of movements, emotions and expressions so that when Liam gave his performance, it gelled perfectly with our Aslan.”
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Past Watchful Dragons Report
This past week, beginning November 3, the doors were opened to Narnia and Middle-Earth. Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted a conference which featured Inklings scholars from around the world talking about a various range of subjects in relation to their works for two and a half magic filled days. The wardrobe door was opened on Wednesday by C.S. Lewis stepson and author, Mr. Douglas Gresham.
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Discovering Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” a $150 million film combining religion and fantasy, is being pitched to churches as a cross between “The Passion of the Christ” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
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Liam Neeson talks Aslan
Though everyone from Ian McKellen to Ralph Fiennes was considered, “we only recorded two,” says producer Mark Johnson. Brian Cox was originally hired, but “when we matched his voice with the visual presentation of Aslan, we realized it was not an ideal fit.” After trying out Neeson, Johnson says, “we knew instantly we had found our mane man.”
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Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Presentation at Fantastic Fest
This was in Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse for the second day of Fantastic Fest, at a presentation on special effects in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
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‘Narnia’ books getting a boost from film
Hollywood has been turning best-selling novels into movies for decades, as far back as ”Gone With the Wind.” But publishers have usually had nothing to do with it. They watched and hoped the movie would drive up sales of the book. Sometimes it did, but just as often it didn’t.
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First Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Reviews Hit the Web!
Quint from AICN reports with the first batch of reviews from the test screening of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. Right now we have two, one from a Lewis fan that loved it to death and one from a non-fan that thought it was filled with a lot of missed opportunities, though still enjoyed the movie.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Post Production Going Strong
Post-production work on New Zealand director Andrew Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is under way in London. Adult actors including Tilda Swinton, Dawn French, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Everett and all the children have been in and out of an edit suite laying down additional voice tracks on the movie, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reports.
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Liam Neeson is Aslan!
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.