Well, no- but they can leap ahead to THE LAST BATTLE if they must. I gots to have me some Narnian Apocalypse!
Tho I would love to see Narnia’s creation in THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW, to see it made obvious exactly what & who Aslan is.
But, how are they gonna film that last scene, where Lewis posits something beyond his own descriptive ability?
His substitutional self-sacrifice and resurrection in TLTW&TW should have made that clear enough!
The trailer was too short! but I thought it looks good. Count me as one who expected a younger Caspian, but it may be because of the extensive flashbacks in the book when he was a young boy. It doesn’t bother me, although I wonder how they will fit all that backstory in.
Also, another vote for Voyage as my favorite book. The Horse and His Boy is a close second, (although I didn’t like it as a kid) so I’m looking forward to both of those.
Definitely. I saw the animated version of LWW when I was something like 7 years old and got the meaning of the sacrificial scene right off. God, that was probably the saddest scene in any medium for me at that age. Stuck with me for YEARS…
I’ll admit that the trailer looks pretty good - it makes me want to see the film in ways that none of the trailers for the original movie got to me.
And Trumpkin (If that’s him) looks good.
I agree that Caspian is too old - I agree he should be younger than Peter, and I’d always thought of him as blonder, myself.
But my favorite characters from the book are likely to be rather short-changed in the movie, and that’s going to interfere with my enjoyment. Reepicheep, and Trufflehunter are both minor characters, with very little to do with the main plot. But they’re my favorites, and the ones I’ll be most eager to see in the film.
I don’t think the filmmakers can win there, really. If they please me with enough screen time for Reepicheep and Trufflehunter, they’re going to annoy me for the liberties they’ve taken with the plot.
I’m glad that some excellent movies are being made from the books, but I really don’t expect to watch any of them.
(Besides, my favorite book is The Silver Chair, and how would they ever be able to beat Tom Baker as Puddleglum? That casting choice made me forgive all the other errors in that series of Narnia adaptations.)
Caspian is *exactly *like I pictured him when I was reading the books as a kid - old enough to be “grown-up” ('cause, Pevensies aside, kings are grown-ups, not kids), but young enough to be really hot to an 8 year old. Plus, he’s got that whole Coming of Age theme going on, so he has to be of, well, age.
After the comments in this thread, I expected him to be 35. He’s what, 18? (The actor is 26, so subtract 8-10 years for Hollywood Age.) And he’s the other guy from Stardust, the one who briefly played the father as a young man. I liked him better than the main guy, and wished he had more screen time. So, yay!
De gustibus non disputandum est an’ all that.*
The actor playing Caspian in my age. That is a bit surprising. (But they are keeping the same actor for Dawn Treader, which is probably why they skewed a little older.)
Reepicheep is a lot of folks’ favorite character. I’m excited to see him too. They did such a good job with the Beavers in the last one, so I’m optimistic.
*[sub]The Last Battle makes me angrier than any work of fiction ought to, and I found The Magician’s Nephew to be profoundly disappointing - ruined the cool randomness of TLWW.[/sub]
I’m guessing that Disney knows that from the looks of the poster. The Pevensies almost seem to be an afterthought.
I was wondering the same. Did I see Jadis in a brief scene? I don’t remember her being in another book except The Magician’s Nephew (my personal favorite). I should really re-read the books. I liked the River God at the Bridge of Beruna.
It is one big battle, and quite a bit of the TL, TW & TW was devoted to battle as well. While it doesn’t seem redundant in print, I hope that this won’t just look like out-takes from the first film.
I’m a little disappointed that there is so much time between movies; I was hoping that this would have come out this past summer. Actors (especially young ones) age so quickly, and it may be hard to preserve credible continuity.
I don’t recall his exact age in the book, but he was obviously prepubescent, talked and acted as a well-bred, well-educated prepubescent, not a teenager. The actor should be no older than twelve, probably younger.
Same here, only because I’m eager to see all the movies. I’m not two worried about the actors aging; only Caspian, Edmund and Lucy appear in the next movie (Dawn Treader), and then we don’t see any of them again until Last Battle, when it will be appropriate for them to be a few years older.
That’s excluding their appearance in Horse, when they would be young adults. I wonder how they will do that?
Could use the same actors that played the older them at the end of TLTWTW.
I just checked my copies and Caspian’s age isn’t given explicitly. It does say, though, that Caspian’s rebellion began “some years” after his education (including swordfighting, hunting, ad so on) began “in earnest.” I always figured him to be 14 or so in this book, no more than 16 – around the same age as Peter.
It states in Voyage of the Dawn Treader that 3 years have passed since Caspian became king. And, in VotDT, he is considered to be a young man (not a boy) old enough to marry. If he was 11 in PC, he’d be only 14 in VotDT, which seems far too young.
Any way you cut it, the cat they have playing Caspian is too old by a couple of years. He also has the wrong coloring – Caspian was definately blond (called ‘golden-headed’ in VotDT). But Peter’s blond, so maybe they wanted dark hair on Caspian for contrast. The real problem with having Caspian played older is that he and Peter might not seem like peers. If Caspian seems like a man in the film, and Peter seems like a boy, then that’s going to be a problem. But Peter looks older in this film – 18 or so, maybe. If both Caspian and Peter seem about the same age, I can live with that, even if it’s 18 - 20, instead of 15 - 17.
About Jadis – in the book there is a scene where Nikabrik, tired of waiting for Aslan, gets some dark characters together to try and call back the White Witch. They are stopped (in the book) before they begin the spell. Looks like, in the movie, they get further along.
A werewolf and a hag, as I recall. I think I need some new copies. I just picked up the book to check, and it fell in pieces.
It looks pretty good to me, although I didn’t see any pictures of Aslan’s How, which was always my favourite setting. The dryads look good, though. There was a lack of dryads in the last one. Was Reepicheep visible at all? I didn’t see him. And Trumpkin, too.
Caspian does look too old to me, but I can live with that. All in all, looks like fun. I’m looking forward to it.
I didn’t see Reepicheep, but I think the hirstute person in the back of the small boat shown in one scene has to be Trumpkin.
Oh, you’re right. Red hair. Good.
I think the flying things are new. Don’t remember flying things at the battle with Miraz.
I suspect the flying things are gryphons. There was no shortage of gryphons in the first movie.
[sub]Yay, gryphons!![/sub]
Isn’t there a scene of trebuchets, or some other kind of siege weapons, hurling rocks toward the Howe in the background?
I thought the same thing at first, but now I’m not so sure; I think the scenes may simply have been cut together misleadingly. On looking through the trailer again, I noticed that in the scene in the boat, only the four children plus Trumpkin are there.
Actually, I thought the most interesting point was that Caspian himself seemed to have a French accent. So perhaps the Telmarines in Narnia are being likened to the Normans in England?
I didn’t think Caspian looked too old. (Ben Barnes is a year younger than me.) He looked HOT. The battle scenes looked good too, but my favorite part in the book was the flashback to Caspian’s youth. That better be in the movie or I will be most displeased.
There is no other Puddleglum than Tom Baker. All the rest, past and future, are mere figments of a diseased imagination.
I’ve read that they’re supposed to be Spanish in the film, with armor modeled on the conquistadors. Originally it was French (in the film, I mean, not the books) but they couldn’t film in the castle they wanted, I think. I could be wrong about that part.