Trailer now available from moviefone.com.

I really need to read the books before I see that movie. Looks like WETA has once again done a fantastic job making the impossible possible

Update: trailer 2 is now online. Narnia

don't like jumping the gun but this looks really good.

The Chronicles of Narnia were my favourite set of books as a child. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is looking awesome.

Yep. Dec 9 in the US.

Another one I have to see.

So many good movies this summer.

My summer hitlist:

Goblet of Fire, King Kong and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

You can get a book at Barnes and Noble with all 7 of the books in it in chronological order as CS Lewis for 20 bucks.

Interesting reads...but I wonder what they are going to change to stretch it into a two hour movie

Nine minute super trailer

I saw this movie yesterday. I thought it kicked ass. The effects are truly spectacular and the story didn't transfer as poorly to film as I had feared it would going in. Having read the books as a kid, I couldn't remember enough of them to know what may/may not have been cut out.

My wife, who is all grown up and has got barely 1/2 way through this book, actually cried when the witch killed Aslan.

Awhile back I had a couple of hours to kill before catching a movie and so I stopped in at the local library. I was looking for something that I could read in that time, and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe caught my eye. I hadn't read it since I was a kid, and I remembered it as being a fairly long story, but I thought, what the hell, if I get into it I can always buy it somewhere after the movie and finish it later.

I read it in about seventy minutes. I'm a pretty fast reader, but that seemed a little ridiculous. I realized at that point that these books were going to translate brilliantly to film.

Yeah, after I posted that I went and actually looked at the book, and it isn't that long. (180-ish pages??)
I meant mainly the idea of talking animals and Narnia-concept itself. I was concerned going in that the ability for me to accept the idea, as an adult, would be diminished and therefor I'd roll my eyes through the whole thing. But it was done in such a subtle yet 'believable' way that when I got home, I had to check that my cat wasn't really hiding an ability to tell me to fuck off for having fed him diced cow tails and called it beef his whole life.

Fucking fantastic movie - this one didn't disappoint at all. Most of the effects looked awesome (except a scene on a snowy bridge that was really bad).

Tilda Swanton (sp) who plays the White Witch reminds me of Cate Blanchett - although I would have preferred to see Cate in the role instead. :P All the kids were awesome actors.

The opening scenes of the kids being evacuated from London was very well done.

Again, loved it.