My friend Shane Rangi is the subject of a great piece in the New Zealand Herald. I finally had the chance to meet him in person on the set of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He shared Bundaberg Ginger Beer with me, prior to my proposal, and we had a great time hanging out on the set. He was also present for the proposal, which made it even more special to me. It’s a memory that we both share. I’ll write more about that in future reports about my visit to the set.
Shane Rangi, who are you?
Talk about a class trip to remember! A lucky class from a school in Australia had a chance to visit the set of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where they met Will Poulter, Shane Rangi and had a great time seeing a Minotaur, Dwarf and a Faun all up close.
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Narnia Fans Spy Tamika writes: I was at Cleveland Point yesterday during the filming of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and managed to get some pretty interesting photos of the cast and crew. It was a quiet day with maybe 15 spectators and we just happened to get there right before the lunch break, which meant the stars and extras were all walking around. Some of the extras (sailors) came out and talked to the fans in depth about the filming and posed for pictures.
NarniaWeb spy Michael sent in some awesome new pictures of the ship and her crew, revealing that more creatures than just Reepicheep and one Minotaur will be on board. Michael writes:
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“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the third in the epic series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, will begin principal photography on location in Queensland, Australia, today – July 27, 2009. The production, a joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Walden Media, continues the franchise which commenced with
The spectacular, Oscar®-winning 2005 release, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and its 2008 follow-up, “Prince Caspian,” whose combined global box office gross tops $1.2 billion.
Shane Rangi could be the only actor to appear in all seven Narnia films, if they keep making them, aside from Liam Neeson. If nothing else, he’ll be the actor with the most different roles in one film series, having played 2 roles in the first film, and seven in the second.
He’s announced, via Weta Cast, that he’ll return to the Narnia series with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Congrats, Shane! Hopefully I’ll get to meet you in person this year, finally!
Weta Cast is a brilliant podcast created by the folks at Weta. This episode features a pair of interviews with a couple of guys you may have heard of: Richard Taylor and Shane Rangi.
Richard Taylor is behind the weapons and armor you see in both The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Shane Rangi is a great friend to NarniaFans.com, and he played at least seven roles in Prince Caspian as well as a couple in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe including both major Minotaurs: Asterius and Otmin.
Download and listen to Weta Cast here
Thanks to Magnus for writing us about it!
We’ve just posted the twenty-sixth edition of the NarniaFans Mailbag. We’ve answered five letters this week from such topics as the NarniaFans.com Widgets, the filming of Prince Caspian, Shane Rangi’s role in Caspian, and a search for the image that is on Edmund’s throne!
Claire Rossell wrote to us saying that our friend Shane Rangi, who played Otmin in the first film, has been cast as another minotaur in ’Prince Caspian.’ I found this out on Narnia.com.
SPOILERS!He is cast in the role of Asterius, the Minotaur who aides Caspian and the Pevensies in their attempt to overthrow King Miraz.END SPOILERS
Welcome back to Narnia, Shane! Hope to hear from you soon!
Read more about him on our Shane Rangi page!
Patrick Kake has an invitation for all of you Narnia Fans. He will be attending Supanova in Brisbane, and Collectormania in Manchester and he wants to meet you! Here’s his e-mail:
I wanted to let you and the fans of LWW know that I will be attending the Supanova convention at the RNA show grounds, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Australia on the 21st to the 23rd of April. Also I will be attending the Collectormania convention at Milton Keyes Manchester England from the 28th of April through to the 1st of May.
I will be the only ”Narnian” at both of the mentioned conventions so Narnia fans come along and support the head of Aslan’s army ”General Oreius.”
Richard Taylor and Weta collectables who will be attending the Brisbane convention have very kindly gifted me an Oreius statue which I will be bringing with me to both conventions. I will also be giving away a weta collectable A1 size signed poster [right] to a lucky fan at the London convention. Weta has told there are only around 25 of them in circulation. All you need to do to win this is get a Oreius signature from me and your name and contact number will go into a draw which will be drawn at the end of the convention.
At the conventions I will reveal some of the Oreius dialogue that didnt make the final draft script and of course, I will tell you about my wonderful experience working on The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.
So come on Narnian fans come and say hi.
[Supanova]
[Collectormania]
[Our Exclusive interview with Patrick Kake]
And don’t forget: Shane Rangi (General Otmin) will be at The Elf Fantasy Fair on Saturday the 22nd and Sunday 23rd of April.
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