fantasia wrote:I have a different negative for fast releases, and that's the ages of the actors vs character ages in the books. Even if you push the LWW Pevensies ages to about as old as people will tolerate... say 16, 14, 12, 10ish, in two to three years, they're not going to be very adult-ish for Last Battle. We may be looking at the adult actors at the end of LWW reprising their role in LB. Or the CGI magic that I've seen animators use a lot lately.
Thanks for the imput guys!
With regards to the characters' ages in the books - the C.S. Lewis timeline notwithstanding - I think the Narnia books give enough wiggle room for creative interpretation. Even the illustrations are ambiguous to the ages of the kids. Both Eustace & Jill could be anywhere from 13 years to 17 years old in The Last Battle, if you look at the evidence. Also: The Friends of Narnia are described as looking BOTH OLDER AND YOUNGER than they used to be. Go figure. I still think a Mayozaki-type animated Narnia film series would do the books justice in that regards. [That's enough. I wrote an extensive post that was deleted by an error. I'll keep this brief.]
If my predicted Narnia adaptations comes true - and it won't
- it would look sort of like this (in terms of character ages):
"The Magician's Nephew" (December, 2020)
Polly actress (13 years old)
Digory actor (14 years old)
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (June, 2021)
Peter actor (15 years old)
Susan actress (14 years old)
Edmund actor (12 years old)
Lucy actress (10 years old)
"The Horse and His Boy" (Decemeber, 2021)
Shasta actor (16 years old)
Aravis actress (15 years old)
"Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia" (June, 2022)
Peter (16 years old)
Susan (15 years old)
Edmund (13 years old)
Lucy (11 years old)
Caspian actor (17 years old)
"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (June, 2023)
Edmund (14 years old)
Lucy (12 years old)
Caspian (18 years old)
Eustace actor (11 years old)
"The Silver Chair" (December, 2023)
Caspian (19 years old)
Eustace (12 years old)
Jill actress (12 years old)
"The Last Battle" (December, 2024)
Eustace (13 years old)
Jill (13 years old)
Tirian actor (21 years old)
Cameos:
Polly (17 years old)
Digory (18 years old)
Peter (19 years old)
Susan (18 years old)
Edmund (16 years old)
Lucy (14 years old)
Shasta (19 years old)
Aravis (18 years old)
Caspian (20 years old)