
"But to recreate those things on stage is really challenging as it gives you lots of problems to solve. "Those images live in my mind from when I was nine years old" he said.
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Speaking with Bristol Live, director Michael Fentiman spoke about bringing such as classic tale to life saying that when he first started working on it it was "really stressful" as every page of the book is full of huge imagery, magic and transformation. Along with many other talented cast members. Humble hero Aslan is played by Chris Jared, much loved Mr Tumnus by Jez Unwin, Mr Beaver by Sam Buttery and Maugrim by Michael Ahomka-Lindsay. The cast is star studded and features the likes of Samantha Womack playing Narnia’s evil White Witch as she is joined by Ammar Duffus (Peter Pevensie), Shaka Kalokoh (Edmund Pevensie), Robyn Sinclair (Susan Pevensie) and Karise Yansen (Lucy Pevensie). READ MORE: Glastonbury 2022: Left Field line-up in solidarity with Ukraine and against cost of living crisis What can be more exciting than joining childhood heroes Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they wave goodbye to wartime Britain and embark on the most magical of adventures in a frozen, faraway land where they meet a faun, talking beavers, noble Aslan and the evil White Witch. Audience members of all ages are invited to step through the wardrobe into the enchanted kingdom of Narnia. The magical novel immerses you in the land of Narnia and the theatre adaptation sets out to do the same.ĭescribed by its Bristol based director Michael Fentiman as ‘total theatre’ this epic new production is a mixture of dance, puppetry and actor-musicianship. However, the film has made over $700 million worldwide in a little over a week of release, including close to ₹100 crore in India.Not many haven't been acquainted with C.S Lewis' classic tale The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. The Lion King has been received with mixed critical reviews, which hailed its visuals as groundbreaking, but its narrative as stale. And that’s a great disposition to be in as an audience member.” He continued, “If we put up that Rafiki footage and didn’t say what it was, some people might know, some people might not know how it was done, but it causes you to be present and mindful and pay attention because you’re trying to figure out what you’re looking at. Because hopefully, you could just watch it without it being introduced.”Īlso read: Can we talk about the glaring classism in Shah Rukh Khan-Aryan Khan’s Hindi Lion King? And it also changes the way you sit and watch it. But to say it’s animated I think is misleading as far as what the expectations might be. Everything is coming through the hands of artists. Because there’s no real animals and there’s no real cameras and there’s not even any performance that’s being captured that’s underlying data that’s real. Speaking about whether the film should be classified as live-action or computer generated, Favreau was quoted by SlashFilm as saying, “Well, it’s difficult because it’s neither, really. Both versions hold such a special place in my heart!” wrote another.

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“Thank you for bringing such an important movie from my childhood back and in such a beautiful way. Loved Chef too! And thank you for Iron Man,” one fan wrote in the comments. “Well that’s mind-blowing and confirms my wondering, what an age we live in. Favreau had previously used the same technology in his 2016 remake of The Jungle Book. For The Lion King, Favreau and his team of visual effects artists used cutting-edge technology to create photorealistic characters on screen.
