Narnia Trailer is Online!

UPDATE 3:31 PM: If you have broadband, here is a direct link to the BIG version.

Finally, we have a real trailer for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe rather than just a series of promotional pieces for WETA. I must say, everything I have seen up until now has been somewhat disappointing and very reminiscent of the LOTR series. But this one finally does set it apart, and shows that the story is VERY different, even if there is armor and magic involved. I am glad to see and hear it.

The latest news - which I somehow missed - is that Brian Cox has been fired as the voice of Aslan, leaving few people with the talent to really play the "Son of the Emperor across the Sea." After all, do you really want to invoke LOTR more by using Ian McKellan or Johnathan Rhys-Davies? And I am not sure that it would be right to have James Earl Jones voice yet another major character without invoking Darth Vader, the Lion King, and countless others.

And of course, my ferverent prayer is that they keep around the elements the C.S. Lewis most desired - those which are an echo of the story of our Savior. And that should be doable without making it a "Christian Film" since Lewis's desire was always that the story not be overtly Christian, but simply introduce the ideas that can be applied later in life when a child comes to know the greatest story.