FX Team talks about Prince Caspian
IGN has been keeping track of the "Prince Caspian" news....the Effects designers for the first movie look like they will be back--quickly--for the second:
The two FX wizards also discussed their Oscar-nominated work on the film and their preparation for work on Prince Caspian now that the sequel has been announced. While LWW was an undeniably large undertaking, Prince Caspian promises to one-up the stakes."Dean Wright comments on Caspian: "No one here has actually gotten the script since it's not written. (Laughs) I did read the book just a couple of weeks ago…""Andrew [Adamson] (director of LWW) just actually signed on to do Prince Caspian just about two weeks ago. And [he] literally took off on the next plane to New Zealand just to get out of L.A. just to recharge his batteries, recharge his creative energy, because it was a marathon. I did read the book and more of the creatures that you saw - and there's new ones - are back. There's new hero creatures... There's huge battle sequences. I know from talking to Andrew before he left, he wants to make this bigger and better than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so I can only imagine what's in store. Any of us that are lucky enough to be involved. We all love working with Andrew. I can say that on behalf of everyone here, and would enjoy working on all seven books if we could."
As far as the character of Aslan, Caspian promises some interesting evolutions in the look of the character who, according to the original writings of C.S. Lewis, more than doubles in size for this tale. Bill Westenhofer comments on the evolution of Aslan's physical look: "Reading the books, there are some evolutions. One of the challenges is that it is described in the text that he does increase in size. At one point, he's referenced as the size of an elephant. So I think that's where interpretations of the filmmakers are going to come into play and how to pull that off. In this film, he changes size slightly, but I doubt anyone would notice. He's actually five percent bigger after he comes back to life, but even to start with, he was at the top end of the scale of average lion sizes… So, he is a big lion, even at the start. But yeah, I think that's going to be one of the challenges... What creative licenses you carry and how believable that is to have that big a character…"
(more from the LA Times) “Narnia” director Andrew Adamson has just signed on to direct “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” and while no contracts are signed, his creative team will probably regroup. Fast.
“They haven’t announced yet how many films they’ll do,” said Wright. “I think they’d love to do them all. At least six or seven is the goal. All the kids will come back for 'Caspian' and two of them, the two youngest, will return for 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' Right now, Andrew is taking time off in New Zealand and then he’ll write treatments, we’ll get the script and dive right into it. I imagine we will start production based on the kids’ schedules, but it’s all going to happen relatively soon.”
Which is great news for “Narnia” fans.
The two FX wizards also discussed their Oscar-nominated work on the film and their preparation for work on Prince Caspian now that the sequel has been announced. While LWW was an undeniably large undertaking, Prince Caspian promises to one-up the stakes."Dean Wright comments on Caspian: "No one here has actually gotten the script since it's not written. (Laughs) I did read the book just a couple of weeks ago…""Andrew [Adamson] (director of LWW) just actually signed on to do Prince Caspian just about two weeks ago. And [he] literally took off on the next plane to New Zealand just to get out of L.A. just to recharge his batteries, recharge his creative energy, because it was a marathon. I did read the book and more of the creatures that you saw - and there's new ones - are back. There's new hero creatures... There's huge battle sequences. I know from talking to Andrew before he left, he wants to make this bigger and better than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so I can only imagine what's in store. Any of us that are lucky enough to be involved. We all love working with Andrew. I can say that on behalf of everyone here, and would enjoy working on all seven books if we could."
As far as the character of Aslan, Caspian promises some interesting evolutions in the look of the character who, according to the original writings of C.S. Lewis, more than doubles in size for this tale. Bill Westenhofer comments on the evolution of Aslan's physical look: "Reading the books, there are some evolutions. One of the challenges is that it is described in the text that he does increase in size. At one point, he's referenced as the size of an elephant. So I think that's where interpretations of the filmmakers are going to come into play and how to pull that off. In this film, he changes size slightly, but I doubt anyone would notice. He's actually five percent bigger after he comes back to life, but even to start with, he was at the top end of the scale of average lion sizes… So, he is a big lion, even at the start. But yeah, I think that's going to be one of the challenges... What creative licenses you carry and how believable that is to have that big a character…"
(more from the LA Times) “Narnia” director Andrew Adamson has just signed on to direct “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” and while no contracts are signed, his creative team will probably regroup. Fast.
“They haven’t announced yet how many films they’ll do,” said Wright. “I think they’d love to do them all. At least six or seven is the goal. All the kids will come back for 'Caspian' and two of them, the two youngest, will return for 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' Right now, Andrew is taking time off in New Zealand and then he’ll write treatments, we’ll get the script and dive right into it. I imagine we will start production based on the kids’ schedules, but it’s all going to happen relatively soon.”
Which is great news for “Narnia” fans.
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