CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Walden Media, with Disney as distributor (no, they have no say in the movie, thank goodness, before you hardened CS Lewis fans freak out Walden has hocked the majority of the hundred million dollar budget) is making a movie of "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" by CS Lewis and have given these images from the pre-production. Just wanted to share them with you.









As the last photo shows, these are banners for hanging around. Sorry, bad joke.

Saweet that looks awsome

Chapel

Chapel wrote:Saweet that looks awsome
Chapel

You can say that again!

2005?! >.<;; I can't wait. It looks fantastic!

There could be a truly good Christian movie for once. Glad to see there will be a new movie adaption of the book. I wonder if that is a series in the works...

(I could have sworn there was another thread about the movie.)

Well, anyway, it looks like Walden Media has a talented art department. A movie series for all of the books would be fantastic, but of course, such an ambitious wish is dependant on how well this movie is received. Hopefully, they will do a good job in being faithful to the book and creating an awesome presentation.

It is encouraging to see this film project is not dead.

hopefully these will come out better than the first movies made... the first movies were good but sooooo cheesy... hopefully with today's technology the movies will turn out really nice

Is Peter Jackson and Weta also going to do this one too? I remember that he and it was going to do a remake of King Kong, Evangelion, and Narnia. Definitely differing genres.

Lochaber Axe wrote:Is Peter Jackson and Weta also going to do this one too? I remember that he and it was going to do a remake of King Kong, Evangelion, and Narnia. Definitely differing genres.

WETA is doing the special effects, but that's it. LW&W is being directed, uh, Andrew Adamson, who directed Shrek 1 & 2. (??????!?!??!?!).

I've heard about WETA doing Evangelion, but I can't find anything about it, so I take it as a rumor. As for King Kong; didn't the 70s remake bomb? You'd have thinked they'd have learned then.

The link at the bottom of the pictures answers a lot of questions. u.u

uc pseudonym wrote:There could be a truly good Christian movie for once. Glad to see there will be a new movie adaption of the book. I wonder if that is a series in the works...

Walden Media has optioned the entire series (all seven books) for movie adaption, but all rests on the sucess of the first movie.

Walden has also produced the movie "Holes" which was both an excellent movie and an excellent adaptation of the book (an excellent book in itself).

Although his only directing credit is the two Shrek movies, Adamson has indicated that he's going to keep true to the source material (let's hope he keeps to that).

I was not very excited when I read about the planned movie, but when I saw those sketches...I became officially excited.

PS: Walden Media is owned a some billionaire who is also (apparently) a Christian, so that at least counts in the favour of the movie being "politically corrected" by Disney.

[quote="bigsleepj"]WETA is doing the special effects, but that's it. LW&W is being directed, uh, Andrew Adamson, who directed Shrek 1 & 2. (??????!?!??!?!).

I've heard about WETA doing Evangelion, but I can't find anything about it, so I take it as a rumor. As for King Kong]Here is the link to thread about it:

http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=3414&highlight=Evangelion

Also go to this link that is within the thread:

http://eva.trivialbeing.net

I've looked around and one of the guys in Weta said that something of the like that since they could make thousands of monsters, then they can make one monster and create every little hair on him.

[quote="bigsleepj"]WETA is doing the special effects, but that's it. LW&W is being directed, uh, Andrew Adamson, who directed Shrek 1 & 2. (??????!?!??!?!).

I've heard about WETA doing Evangelion, but I can't find anything about it, so I take it as a rumor. As for King Kong]
No, I've seen alot of sorce material and some sketches from Weta's Evangelion stuff. I'm pretty sure that's a done deal.-- Atleast I think. I'll have to go back and check.

Evangelion isn't a rumor, but that doesn't mean it will go full production...

Anyhow... I'm excited about this... I grew up on Narnia!

Bobtheduck wrote: I grew up on Narnia!

You grew up on Naria? I grew up in a wardrobe. So I guess our childhoods were similar .

that's abseloutley positively AWESOME! >^0^<

This is so EXCITING! I've seen several movie versions of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and the cheesiness level was almost painful at times. n.n I guess that's the disadvantage to today's level of technology that can be used to make movies look so realistic - they make all the older movies look so pathetic by comparison. Anyways, I've always wanted to see a new version and I guess I'll get to in a year or so!

Let's just hope it's going to be a good movie!

My thoughts on the definition of "a good movie":

On one hand, many people will want it to be very close to the books. On the other, it should also be "cool" to attract most of society. Will the relatively few fight scenes be cool ones? Will there were jaw-dropping special effects? These things are not mutually exclusive, but I must wonder about the balance that will be reached.