[School of Movies 2022]
We've been planning Narnia shows for many years. This was a very special book series to me as a child, informing on my worldview and writing. It was also the first long-form live action fantasy series I watched on television, as the BBC production which ran from November 1988 to December 1991 adapted four books over three 6-episode seasons. I always wondered why they stopped at The Silver Chair. Later I began to understand the kind of scope and budgets and potentially thorny territory that the remaining three stories would entail. The quaint, very British project was already more ambitious than anyone would have expected.
After that were many long years of waiting for a cinematic incarnation (not counting the insanely cheap and rushed 1979 animated version). The achievement and success of New Line's Lord of the Rings films at the same time as Warner's Harry Potter imbued Disney with a desire to seek out its own epic fantasy series to bring in all the dollars.
While compared unfavourably with Weta's perfectly magnificent Rings Trilogy it is frankly amazing that the director of the first two Shrek films was able to achieve something in this 2005 film which both surpassed my experience of reading the book, and even my loftily-soaring imagination of what the events could look, sound and feel like. We will be covering the duet of films that followed in 2008 and 2010 and lingering cancellation of the seven-part series next year.
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Nama Chibitty @namathenerd
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The Incredibles 1 & 2
Blade Runner 2049
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Harley Quinn (Seasons 1 & 2)
Ms. Marvel (MCU)
Ms. Marvel (Comics)
Obi Wan Kenobi
The Lost Boys & Lost Men of Taika Waititi
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom & Dominion
Vampire’s Kiss
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The Rock
The Mandalorian (Season 1)
Moon Knight
Batman: Breakdown [Audio Drama]
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