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Posted on: Sat, Jul 28, 2007 22:58:01
Written By: Michael Dance
MichaelDance@TheCinemaSource.com
Disney's panel at Comic-Con earlier today focused exclusively on two films which both stand to make boatloads of money when they're released in 2008. The one I'm most unabashedly excited about is The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the highly-anticipated follow-up to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. While purists might note that C.S. Lewis did not have Caspian directly follow Wardrobe in the book series, it was the obvious choice for the next movie for one reason: it's the only other Narnia book with all four Pevensie children in it, and they needed to hurry up and film it before the actors grew up.
On hand was some members of the special effects team Weta Workshop, including the head, Richard Taylor, who also worked heavily on Lord of the Rings (and whom most geeks like me will recognize from the Lord of the Rings DVD special features):
Via a live video feed, we were also treated to director Andrew Adamson and Prince Caspian himself, relative unknown Ben Barnes.
They showed two bits of footage: the first was "pre-vis", or a rough computer-animated mock-up of a scene, of the heroes secretly breaking into a castle. (It also featured a charming team of sword-wielding mice.) The second showed actual footage from the film, in the form of a kind of "sizzle reel" (or glorified trailer, if you like), that successfully did its job of pumping us up. All the kids once again look great, Warwick Davis and Peter Dinklage look brilliant as two pivotal dwarves, and as the filmmakers stated numerous times, the action looks heavily amped up in this (unlike Wardrobe, in which the only real battle was at the end).
The filmmakers also revealed their plan for filming the rest of the series. Unlike the two and a half year wait between Wardrobe and Caspian, they're planning on releasing one film a year each May until they've completed all seven. Personally that sounds almost preposterously rushed; a year and a
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