Yahoo News Report from VDT Set

[fantasia]

I'm still "away for Christmas" so to speak, but I had to pop in and say these pictures are.... interesting. I'll be sure to get them uploaded sometime next week if none of the other newsposters get to them.

I noticed the statue heads are detached from the neck.

No, I think they are leaning forward away from the bells' noise and covering their ears to lessen the sound.

They sure look detached to me.

[GlimGlum]

Well, looks like there will be a bit more going on than what is in the book on the Lone islands. I just hope they are able to keep the main idea of fooling Gumpas into thinking there are a lot more Narnians than there actually are.

[greenleaf23]

Has it been confirmed that this takes place at the Lone Islands? I know in the book that would be the most logical place for a bell tower, but we don't know what changes they have made to other islands. If it is on the Lone Islands, why do they have statues of kings?

I agree...although I think Nicholas Greening said that they were of the Seven Lords, which makes it even more confusing. I don't really think the Lone Islands would've known about the Lords (especially since they didn't really "talk" to Narnia much) much, or even at all, except for Lord Bern. I guess these are just more pieces to the puzzle

[Lady Galadriel]

Could it possibly be statues on the Dawn Treader?

[Reepicheep775]

If this is when the crew gets captured by the slavers, I might actually like it. It would be more visually interesting then how they get captured in the book. If this has anything to do with the re-taking of the Lone Islands, I will be very upset. Talk about killing a scene.

On the bright side, I love the design! It looks much more magical and otherworldly than the last two movies.

[Adeona]

As far as upping the capture scene - I like that idea, to some extent anyways.

As to the bizarre head-holding statues... IMHO, there had better be a really good excuse for this outlined briefly in the movie, because I find it just too weird at this point.