I’ve just seen the trailer (55 MB, .mov) and it looks pretty cool. And it’s released on Dec 9th - the day after I hit 39. Just the right time to bring out the inner kid in me!
I saw the trailer shortly after I was fangirly over the Goblet of Fire teaser. Tilda looks awesome as the White Witch… I can’t wait.
Kick Ass.
I was wondering what I would be watching now that LOTR is all wrapped up.
Here’s the link to the Apple site to the trailer I think is the right one, for anyone who had trouble with Quartz’s link. If it’s not the right one, then here’s the other WETA featurette. AOL has never liked my computer.
It does look really promising, and it’s a good thing the Harry Potter movie comes out on a different day, or else I think my head might explode choosing between the two of them.
Did anybody catch the glimpse of Lucy’s elixir bottle? The detail on that is fantastic, especially the little Aslan-head stopper. That must be a drawing of one of the girls’ horses at the end of the book near the beginning. And how awesome do the minotaurs look?
LOVED the music in the trailer. Really set a different tone from LOTR. Though I am concerned a bit about the costumes-- do they look a bit flimsy to you? Who cares. And before LOTR I would have wanted Cate Blanchett for the white witch but damn, Tilda Swinton looks PERFECT.
Wonder how Aslan will compare size-wise to the children? Larger than a real lion? Hope so.
Where is it? I watched it twice… can’t see the elixir.
I’m almost afraid of this movie. I will never forgive them if they screw it up. But so far, so good. Lucy looks good, unlike that horrid little pie-faced girl they used for the BBC miniseries ten or fifteen years ago. I agree, the costumes look a bit flimsy, but maybe it’s just the trailer. I also didn’t like how they made Mrs. Macready look like an ogre (I never got that from the books) but I guess in the grand scheme of things it’s a minor change.
December 9th seems a long way away…
I must be watching a completely different thing, then. Sadness. The two links I provided upthread are worth watching though, if you have the time.
Does anybody know of a different source for the trailer?
I’m looking forward to it, and the casting looks good (agreeing on the pie-faced Lucy last time!). But the trailer I saw was very big on the ominous-forbidding-mansion schtick, and I hope that isn’t how it is in the film. It’s pretty clear in the book that the kids have landed in a sweet deal and as long as they stay out of the housekeeper’s way they can do whatever they want.
;j
Ooo. I hope this version includes Santa!! 
I distinctly remember not liking this book when I was a child… but for the life of me I can barely remember a thing about it, or why I disliked it. That said, the trailer looks pretty cool, and I may just have to either re-read the books, see this when it comes out, or both.
I can’t watch the trailer on this computer.
We read the book in the fourth grade, so I only recall bits and pieces.
But, it is in odd coincidence that today (for only the second time, and both times based on its prescence in the book) I had Turkish Delight. I don’t feel any more inclined to betray Aslan/Jesus than I did before. But then again, I’m Jewish.
Seventeen years. And yes, she was dire. Whenever I think of that piece of dialogue they put in for her - the whiny-assed “So you knew you were going to come back to life?” snivel she delivers to the risen Christ, I mean Aslan - I want to punch her in the face.
On the other hand, when they filmed “The Silver Chair” two years later, they could hardly have improved on Tom Baker as Puddleglum. 
Just to be clear, Quartz’s link is completely different than either of the two posted by Miss Purl McKnittington. The former is the trailer, while the latter two are “behind the magic” featurettes on the making of the special effects.
The trailer looks promising, but I’m eagerly awaiting hearing any of Aslan’s lines. How well Aslan is done will, I think, make or break this movie for me.
I just went to Moviefone and then from their front page went to the Narnia page and then downloaded the trailer. I had to click on the picture as the hotlinks didn’t work.
The trailer looked great but I’m a little perplexed as to why Lucy didn’t speak in the trailer at all.
I can’t wait. The minotaurs look badass, Aslan looks badass, the White Witch looks badass, the fight scenes look…well, you get the picture.
There were minotaurs in TLTWATW? I must be losing brain cells in my old age. Frankly, I don’t remember a unicorn either. Jewel doesn’t show up until the end of the series. Or is this one of those things where they’re frontloading all the cool looking characters?
I wasn’t nuts about the (admittedly, very quick shots) of Cair Paravel. I always had the impression from the books that Cair Paravel was a bit of a small castle, very classic, and definitely very much referencing early English castles. Beautiful yet functional, that sort of thing. The shot of it in the trailer made it look like the Magic Kingdom. Actually, the movie castle looked more like I imagined Caspian’s childhood castle – which is set up in the books as sort of foppish as opposed to Cair Paravel, which was a real castle.
Geez, could I be more cranky? I did like a lot of the look of the film, and thought the music was great.
There were unicorns and minotaurs, and pretty much every other creature you can think of, in the hosts on either side of the battle. They weren’t major characters or anything, but they were there.
Now I can’t remember how the film showed it, but Pauline Baynes’ illustrations showed it as kind of pointy, more fairy-tale than medieval. Perhaps they used that as a source. Now I’ll have to read all the books with Cair Paravel in them to see how it’s actually described…
Oh dear. I just frightened the neighbors with a squeal of delight.
I’ll be insufferable until Christmas. Wait, I always am. Well, I’ll be more insufferable than usual. Fun times.
When the children are brought and presented to Aslan for the first time, his court includes pretty much every kind of fantastic creature found in Narnia. including minotaurs and unicorns. The bull-with-a-man’s-head (which actually got some speaking lines) used to creep me out.
From the Pauline Baynes illustrations , Cair Paravel looked very much a fairy-tale castle, with spires and large windows. I always thought Caspian’s castle was a smaller, purely functional castle. The Telmarines were a very practical people.
Yeah, but how 'bout those mermaids? Leaping, spinning mermaids! IIRC, C.S. only mentions them singing while the children were being crowned, but I was thrilled by the images of them leaping out of the water!