News for Feb. 05, 2007

Narnia sequel gets ready to shoot

2/05/07, 7:28 pm EST - Xoanon

A bit of Hollywood once again comes to New Zealand shores as filming gets underway on the sequel movie in the Chronicles of Narnia series - Prince Caspian. Filming in the North and South Island begins next Tuesday for six weeks. New Zealand director Andrew Adamson says it is sad they are in New Zealand for such a short time. He says the lack of infrastructure and staging for film crews caused huge headaches while filming the first movie in the series, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Adamson says a lot of the film had to be shot in equestrian centres and tin sheds because of the lack of sound stages, and as a result a lot of time had to be spent "looping" - or re-recording - the actors' dialogue, which slows everything down. [More]