Imagene Issue 276 Scans
Translated
by Cindy
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Return to the enchanted land.
Headline:
The extraordinary success of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe lead to
the production of Prince Caspian, a new chapter from C.S. Lewis’ The
Chronicles of Narnia that is once more directed by Andrew Adamson with the
same protagonists from the first film.
Article; first page: (some
of the sentences are long, I did my best to edit them.)
While the producers of The Golden Compass hold one meeting after another trying
to decide if the poor response seen from the first film would be the same
for the second or if they should double the wager and continue the franchise
even though the results at the box office were not what they expected. In
the studios founded by Walt Disney rules the calm after the more than 700
million dollars left at the arcs of the enterprise by the world-wide screening
of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first
film based on the famous books by C.S. Lewis gave the first kick to what until
today is known as one of the biggest franchises in the history of the company.
Although the executives of the studio had already finished the script for
the second part, Prince Caspian before the first film was even released into
theatres, they logically waited to see how the public responded before giving
the green light to director Andrew Adamson, who had directed the first two
Shrek movies and the first Narnia film, which holds one of the greatest records
at the box office of all the Hollywood industry.
Even though the first Narnia was filmed in New Zealand, Adamson opted to leave only the realization of the special effects to WETA, a company that specializes in this area founded by Peter Jackson, with its administrative offices located in London and the majority of the production being filmed in the legendary Barrandov studios in Prague, demonstrating that if the wager for the first film would have been for 180 million dollars, for the second movie would’ve had to have been more ambitious.
Cont. from first page:
And even if the facts that the media manage give a sum of 100 million as a
budget of the second film, surely the real one would be much higher seeing
as Adamson never concealed the fact that in Czech Republic and Poland he had
constructed some of the greatest sets in the history of the cinema. Based
on the second book in a series of seven written by Lewis, the film tells the
story of what happens when a year after we lived in the first film; the four
Pevensie siblings, Peter (William Moseley, who is now 20 years old), Susan
(Anna Popplewell, 19), Edmund (Skandar Keynes, 16), and Lucy (Georgie Henley,
12) are waiting for the train to return to their respective schools in mid-1941,
when all of a sudden they are sent to Narnia, where a magical horn from the
time of their reign as kings and queens was left behind by Susan before returning
to England in World War II. And even though at first they feel very happy
to return to the place where they once had great times, they soon realize
that things are no longer how they remembered and that Narnia has been completely
transformed. When they save a dwarf named Trumpkin from being executed (Peter
Dinklage, seen in A Funeral for death, in one of the few occasions despite
his physical characteristics has accepted to portray a dwarf), and he explains
that they are in fact in Narnia, but 1300 years have passed since they’ve
been there, and they later come to understand what is happening. This is how
they come to know that after their departure a race of nomadic individuals
from a place called Telmar…
Cont. from second page:
Below the pictures: Besides the fantastic images, the film has the incentive
of the incorporation to the cast of the excellent Italian actor Sergio Castellito
(bottom left).
[…] Telmar and are logically called telmarines, came to Narnia to take over the land and to expel the old inhabitants of the kingdom, who had no other choice than to hide in the woods. The kingdom is ruled by the sinister king Miraz (the Italian Sergio Castellito, who makes his Hollywood debut in this film), has overthrown his nephew, prince Caspian from the title (Ben Barnes, a young actor of 26 that appeared briefly in Stardust), who uses the magical horn to call the four Pevensie siblings to help him overthrow the king and reestablish peace and well-being in Narnia. As if it hasn’t occurred to the great meca that is the cinema, once the sets have been laid out they must prepare for a great battle between the telmarines and Caspian’s followers, in which all the fantastic beings from the first film including Aslan the lion (whose voice in the original version has been once more been lent by Liam Neeson) and also making a brief appearance in the form of a flashback is Tilda Swinton as the demonic White Witch.
A funny thing is that director Andrew Adamson imagined the Telmaries as individuals with Hispanic characteristics (according to the way that the Anglo-Saxon north Americans understand it), which explains the contracting of Castellito and other numerous actors such as Spaniards, Italians, and Mexicans, among them Alicia Borrachero, who portrays queen Prunaprismia, as well as Simon Andreu who plays Lord Scythley. It also brings out the appearance of the brilliant Mexican actor Damian Alcazar, from Cronicas, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, and the delightful La Ley de Herodes.
