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[Vgamer]

I just finished reading the huge 5 page article and it has me even more pumped for the movies!! I hope they turn out as good as they have the potential to. IGN visited the set of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe in New Zealand and interviewed many of the people involved! It sounds like there will be some huge battle scenes that where only glossed over in the books and it sounds like the White Witch's Great Hall sets are amazing! Also the movie will open showing the carnage of WW2 and show why the children had to move to the country which is very cool. Anyways if you havnt read it its a great read! http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/569/569887p1.html

Christmas of 2005 cant come soon enough!

 

[=W=]

I concur.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/041130a.php

Can't friggin' wait.

 

[snaildog]

Are they doing all seven books or just this one? And we're not as LOTR crazy over here has he says we are. Peter Jackson is of course famous and popular, but not a god.

 

[Patrick Klepek]

a script's being written for the second one, but it's not being filed back-to-back-to-back-etc ala lord of the rings. chronicles of naria has to prove its popularity first.

 

[BobbyRobby]

I must see Reepacheep. Is he in Prince Caspian? It's been a while.

 

[Eminem]

[flashback]
[scene] Peter taking clothes out of the washing machine.
Peter: Ah, let's see. Shirt, pants, h-h-hey! I'm missing another sock! ey!
He crawls into the washing machine and lands in a snowy field. A goat/fat
guy hybrid thing hops up holding Peter's sock.
Mr. Tumnus: Welcome to Narnia. I'm Mr. Tumnus.
Peter: Hey! Give me back my sock, you goat bastard!
Mr. Tumnus runs off.
[/flashback]

 

[StoOgE]

At least they are doing them in the proper order and not the neo order. Fucking family members. I swear, if I ever do anything productive with my life and my decendents screw it up, Im haunting their asses.

 

[Deku Tree]

Another great story is going to be butchered for the movies.
Still, it'll probably be fun to watch.

 

[Belfast]

Still waiting on the His Dark Materials trilogy. WHEEERRREEE IIISSSS ITTTT?!?!

What with Harry Potter and A Series.... and now LW&W, where the hell is HDM? I know it was rumored awhile back and probably in pre-production of some sort, but nothing has been said for a very long time.

 

[Dan]

Still waiting on the His Dark Materials trilogy. WHEEERRREEE IIISSSS ITTTT?!?!

What with Harry Potter and A Series.... and now LW&W, where the hell is HDM? I know it was rumored awhile back and probably in pre-production of some sort, but nothing has been said for a very long time.

Pre-production. It's being worked on, slowly but surely. The Golden Compass is set for release in '06 right now. Chris Weitz is directing, if you didn't already know.

 

[The Shadow]

This Chronicles of Narnia, is it a good book series? Can someone give a brief synopsis?

 

[bionic77]

It's a great book series. They're kids books though, so if you were to read them now for the first time, I'm not sure you'd think much of them. Very well done. Sort of fairy-taleish.

As for a synopsis... it's a little complicated, but here's the first book in a nutshell--

Four kids move to a huge country manor to stay with a distant relative. They discover that a wardrobe in a spare room leads to another world, a world where the magic of the White Witch has kept the land in winter for a hundred years. "Always winter, but never Christmas!"

Voila.

I don't know if he would like them, you really have to be a kid to properly appreciate them.

 

[Quadrophenic]

I read all of the Narnia books in the Fifth or Sixth grade after we read Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as a class. I can't remember much about the plots for any of the books except a few things...

Spoiler

the magic rings in the first book (maybe first book in neo order, I dunno), sprout trees which is used to make the wardrobe. I remember thinking that was cool. And that the bitch brother, Edward? ends up being a hero in one of the books....and turkish delight. I only remember turkish delight because after we got to that part in the book someone in my class made turkish delight and brought it to class to share. Food makes learning memorable. Oh yeah, and there is a big ass battle in the last book. And a boat that sails to the edge of the world...and uhhh......i guess thats all I remember.

so what is the original order of the books, and whats the neo order?

 

[The Shadow]

Kid's books? Eh...I was hoping for something a little thicker/novel-ish.

Oh well, I still need to find something to read. I haven't been to the book store yet which is why I was asking.

 

[Dan]

Kid's books? Eh...I was hoping for something a little thicker/novel-ish.

We're not talking picture books here. They are novels, even if only 200 pages or so. Just grab The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe from the library and read it in a day or two. If you don't like it, you won't have wasted much time.

I'll just say that I read Lord of the Rings at a younger age than I did Chronicles of Narnia.

 

[border]

Still waiting on the His Dark Materials trilogy. WHEEERRREEE IIISSSS ITTTT?!?!

Stuck in pre-production hell, and likely to stay there IMO. The story is unmarketable without serious compromises.

Spoiler

Good luck selling a movie about the evils of the Christian church and the murder of God. Oh, and pre-adolescent fucking.

I always thought HDM would be better as an animated mini-series or something (not that that would be much more commercially viable). In live action, the presence of daemons means that like every shot is going to have to be an effects shot....budget goes through the roof...

 

[Dan]

Interesting. I really don't know jack about that trilogy, but from what you just said, it sounds rather intriguing and like something I might enjoy. Too bad I have so little time for reading nowadays... more stuff to add to The List and never get to.

 

[Manics]

The Chronicles of Narnia are basically C.S. Lewis's books for kids which teach Christian lessons and morals. There are many parallel stories and references that link back to the Bible. There's a ton of material out there analyzing his work and entire books devoted to explaining the parallels between his books and the Bible stories.

 

[Azih]

Also that muslims are evil and worship the devil.

I remember reading the last book in the series when I was pretty young, and then about a decade later going 'Hey... wait a minute... What. The. Fuck?'

 

[bionic77]

Also that muslims are evil and worship the devil.

I remember reading the last book in the series when I was pretty young, and then about a decade later going 'Hey... wait a minute... What. The. Fuck?'

What? I don't remember anything about muslims in those books.

 

[Azih]

From a synopsis of the Last battle

The final, most painful report that he delivers is that Aslan and the Calormene god Tash are one and the same....


During the discussion, the sky clouds over and a great darkness falls upon Tirian's group. A great cloudy figure shaped like a man with a birds head and huge curved beak soars overhead and northwards, toward Shift and his band. The grass withered beneath it and its claws were outstretched, appearing to take all of Narnia into its grasp. When the thing is gone, Poggin suggests that demons should not be summoned unless one wants to see them. The thing was Tash.

Seeing as Carolemenes are pretty bad caricatures of Arabs

 

[StoOgE]

so what is the original order of the books, and whats the neo order?

that is the neo order..

original order =

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle: A Story for Children.


Neo order:

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle: A Story for Children

They put the books in order based on timeline.. the problem is the books were written based on the stories they told.. the first 4 told the story of the original children, cousins and whatnot and then picked up with different people after that.

Edit: other things that suck is the introduction of Aslan. He is introduced properly in the Lion the with and the wardrobe. In the magicians nephew the lion is introduced in a rather mundane way, because Lewis assumes you read the first book.

http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/schakel/narniaorder.html

Read that, it talks about all the problems with re-ordering the books. Luckily, I went and bought a really nice box set because my Dad told me they were re-ordering them.. that way I will have them in the proper order if/when I have kids. I guess I could just put them in the right order, but they have numbers on them, and I dont want to have to explain why the numbers arent in the right order.

 

[StoOgE]

From a synopsis of the Last battle

Seeing as Carolemenes are pretty bad caricatures of Arabs

I dont know what you expect.. I mean it is a biblical scholar who wrote these things.

 

[Azih]

I dont know what you expect.. I mean it is a biblical scholar who wrote these things.

Didn't expect anything. Alls i'm saying is that it was a pretty bizzare moment when the lightbulb went off in my head lo so many years after I read the book.

 

[teiresias]

Yeah, I'd heard about the "His Dark Materials" being in pre-production, but haven't heard anything since.

The story does seem destined to get the church people all up in arms though - matter just deciding to be conscious, etc.

 

[bionic77]

From a synopsis of the Last battle





Seeing as Carolemenes are pretty bad caricatures of Arabs

The only negative thing I remember is the use of the word "darkies" when I read this (read this a long time ago, like when I was 9). I remember it being a pretty bland book, at the time any sort of reference to religion went way over my head.

Still, the books are so old that this was probably a common way of thinking at the time. Lots of older books use a lot of language that seems innappropriate much later. Still, after seeing that I probably won't give it to my kids to read.

 

[Prince of Space]

Tilda Swinton as the Witch will rock.

"Would you care for more...Turkish Delights...?"

 

[Azih]

The only negative thing I remember is the use of the word "darkies" when I read this (read this a long time ago, like when I was 9). I remember it being a pretty bland book, at the time any sort of reference to religion went way over my head.

Still, the books are so old that this was probably a common way of thinking at the time. Lots of older books use a lot of language that seems innappropriate much later. Still, after seeing that I probably won't give it to my kids to read.

Yeah a lot of it can be explained by the atmosphere that C.S Lewis worked in. For example the same thing happens near the end of the LOTR books (oh no evil swarthy humans allied with the Dark one are attacking!!!), and both Lewis and Tolkien have an obsession with lineage and that makes me uncomfortable.

But still the 'muslims are demon worshippers bit' is extremely blatant if you go back and read the last battle again.