News for Nov. 29, 2004

A First Look at Narnia Artwork

11/29/04, 2:18 pm EST - Tehanu

Dark Horizons has an exclusive first look at some of the artwork from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! [More] The opening shots of wartime London under aerial attack give us an idea of how exciting the beginning of the film might be, as well as cluing in the audience to the fact that during the Second World War, thousands of children were sent out of the cities to escape the danger of bombing raids. Many of C. S. Lewis's readers would have experienced, like the Pevenseys, both the air-raids and the displacement to a strange new house in the country where they were left pretty much to their own devices.

Dark Horizon's also gives us a good look at the mysterious Wardrobe!