2006 Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Calendar

A whole slew of Narnia and other film site journalists got the chance of a lifetime: to visit the set of Prince Caspian in Prague. If there was one set that I would have loved to see, it’s clearly The Dancing Lawn, the inspiration for the name of our forums.

“We needed to find a way to model the performance to create the essence of the noble, all-powerful lion,” explained Dean Wright, the film’s Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor, “So we used Gregory Peck in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ His Atticus Finch performance has some of the same regal qualities we wanted, so we used frames of Peck from that film to create movements for Aslan. That helped us build our library of movements, emotions and expressions so that when Liam gave his performance, it gelled perfectly with our Aslan.”

A talking lion, a wicked witch and a cupboard have recorded the fourth biggest Boxing Day tally at Australian cinemas, early estimates have revealed.