Unusual Happenings During the filming

[Matthais]

Hey everyone!

I looked Skandar (Edmund) up on IMDB (www.imdb.com) and it says that he grew 6 and 1/2 inches during the filming! According to the source they say that they hd to re-fit his armor weekly :eek: I'm wondering if anyone knows of some wierd things that happened during the filiming.
:confused:

[grimmcest]

Woah. Seriously?
He must've had major growing pains.

[Edmund_luver101]

I don't know any unusual things that happened DURUNG the film, but I do know that he plays the flute


P.S. I do not know if he stilll does....... but I think so

[Elizabeth Pevensie]

Walden has optioned the entire seven-part "Chronicles of Narnia" fantasy book series for film development.


The movie had two fake working titles: "The Hundred Year Winter" and "Paravel". Signs in Auckland which directed extras and crew to the sets had "Paravel" written on them.


The Director, Andrew Adamson, who himself is from West Auckland, along with some of his production crew, were given a traditional Maori welcome onto a Maori meeting house near the West Auckland studios. This was done as a sign of respect to the local tribe of West Auckland whose lands will be used for filming locations.


When placing ads in "The New Zealand Herald" for extras, the call was put out for people under 5ft and over 6ft. Extras calls were made in the NZ main cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch over a period of two weeks.


The makers asked for permission to bring in 12 reindeer to New Zealand to pull the Ice Queen's sled. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry denied, citing the potentially deadly Q fever from which the North American reindeer population suffers as the reason. However, eight wolves were allowed in for filming in Auckland.


Tilda Swinton hadn't read the book prior to filming.


Co-producer Douglas Gresham is the stepson of C.S. Lewis, author of the novel upon which the film is based.


The word "aslan" means "lion" in Turkish.


Brian Cox was originally set to voice Aslan.


There is a further scene featuring Lucy and Professor Kirke after the credits have started to roll.

[sukapesta]

on the movie companion book it says that the crew decided to play a joke on skandar... since will and anna had a dancing part in the coronation scene, suddenly they told skandar he'd have a dancing part, too... the next day his dance trainer came in and he was ready to dance... but then, skandar said, "it was strange because a lot of her moves were very... adult, if you get what i mean. some gyrating, some pelvic thrusts!" the great thing is skandar actually learned and rehearsed those moves, and he kept saying he wasn't ready for the cameras to roll... he finally figured it out when the trainer asked him to do the chest bumps...

i think it's hilarious but man, i'd love to see that cute boy do some gyrating and pelvic thrusts...

[MRS._William_Moseley]

That is really weird, but then again he was location for a year( and even mabey more)!!!!

[Astral]

Rumors, probably.

The one 'bout dancing's pretty darn hysterical though. Poor boy.

[onlymystory]

actually none of those are rumors, they are all from the official movie companion book. here's mine. Apparently Skandar has quite the energy level so he was not allowed to have sugar during the movie filming, no soda, no candy, no cookies. So William decided to play a joke on him and told Skandar that the grass floor they walked on was actually spun sugar and Skandar immediately started grabbing handfuls and eating it while William sat there laughing. Skandar quickly realized of course that it was not sugar. (He must have really been deprived)
Another one was that after eating Turkish delight all day for the scene, Skandar hated the stuff. He said he tried to eat it again the second day of filming that scene and promptly threw up.

[Astral]

My faith in his intelligence plummets. :o

[jay4narnia]

hey i heard that too. he doesnt look like he grew at all really. But I know some goofs during the movie that are pretty funny like... when Peter was reading the post from Maugrim the rip on the top of the paper kept appearing and disappearing. and also when Susan and Lucy were riding Aslan they switched places.

[onlymystory]

the very first scene filmed was the bunker scene and william had been trying really hard to rehearse for the scene. Andrew went and talked to william and he came back, shot the scene and nailed it in the first take. But after they finished he realized he had slammed the door so hard that the handle had broken off in his hand and he had been holding it the whole time.
And as far as Skandar goes, I feel kinda bad for the kid. I might start eating the floor too if I'd had to give up all sugar for six months. yuck!

[Queen Nicole]

I saw some interview with Andrew Adamson and tis was part of it:

Adamson also knew the best way to unnerve his young charges, when the drama called for it. "Skandar will bust me for telling you this," he says, laughing, but the first scene where Edmund meets the Witch, I would tease him as he was getting into the sleigh: "Snuggle up to your new girlfriend!" And he would immediately start squirming, which gave us these great uncomfortable moments on camera, because he was at that age where he didn’t like the idea of girlfriends and the thought that I was telling him to treat this intimidating, tall woman as his girlfriend … Ha!" (Skandar is now having to get used to female attention, though not quite how he may have hoped. "The other day we were in Teen Vogue and this girl came running up to me, saying ’Skandar, Skandar, you’re in Teen Vogue!’ And I’m playing it cool, like, ’Yeah, yeah, that’s me’ and she goes, ’So you must know Will!’�) :D

[LionessVoyager]

I heard that when Lucy first steps into Narnia, those expressions were real. That the crew had blindfolded Georgie and wouldn't let her see the set until the camera's were rolling. Does anyone know if this is true?

[SapphireOfSeptember]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/9863781/site/newsweek

its so funny towards the middle. its about skandars birthday present.

did anybody know he is half middle-eastern?? :D :)

[onlymystory]

yes it is. Andrew was really set on capturing the true faces of the kids, Skandar didn't see Tilda in her witch's outfit until the day they filmed, Georgie didn't see James in his faun outfit and that is her real expression when she saw Narnia for the first time.
It's also Anna's double in all the scenes with the mice. Anna is deathly afraid of mice.

[sakura_shinguji]

well..its all just rumors right??

[onlymystory]

no, most of this stuff is out of the official movie companion book or from interviews we've seen or read with them. we're just very obsessed with Narnia.

[Edmund_luver101]

That's fine.
My mom says that she has heard everything I have told her at least twice!!!

I glad I'm not the only person obsessed with Narnia.

[Edmund_luver101]

Hey, you know how heeat so much Turkish delight..and you know how he couldn't eat sugar..well did the sugar in the turkish delight send him up the walls???
POor skandar...to much turkish delight and no sugar!

[Lenny]

6 inches?! WOAH! Thats immpossible...right?

Im sure thats not right, 6 inches is a hell of a lot to grow within the filiming time...he must have been tiiiiny when they first started. Maybe 6cms...

x

[sukapesta]

actually the principal photography in new zealand took a long time (half a year? a year?) so i wouldn't be surprised if he grew 6 inches (15 cm roughly)... considering he was at that growth spurt age and all...

[King Edmund the Just]

6 inches?! WOAH! Thats immpossible...right?

Im sure thats not right, 6 inches is a hell of a lot to grow within the filiming time...he must have been tiiiiny when they first started. Maybe 6cms...

x

In the interview with him on The Early Show, the interviewer asks him about this rumor and he says it's true. He grew 6 1/2 inches during the filming of it, and they resized his armor weekly. He said that they shot the movie in chronological order, and I'm guessing that that's probably why. Oh yeah, William said he grew 2 inches during the filming of it also.

[Edmund_luver101]

Ya! I heard this:
Skandar~6 and 1/2 inches
Goergie~4 inches(I think that's how ypu spell it)
William~2 inches
Anna~half an inch

[Faun 3.0]

on the movie companion book it says that the crew decided to play a joke on skandar... since will and anna had a dancing part in the coronation scene, suddenly they told skandar he'd have a dancing part, too... the next day his dance trainer came in and he was ready to dance... but then, skandar said, "it was strange because a lot of her moves were very... adult, if you get what i mean. some gyrating, some pelvic thrusts!" the great thing is skandar actually learned and rehearsed those moves, and he kept saying he wasn't ready for the cameras to roll... he finally figured it out when the trainer asked him to do the chest bumps...

i think it's hilarious but man, i'd love to see that cute boy do some gyrating and pelvic thrusts...

What's a chest bump?
Why do they have to play so many jokes on him??? :D

[~Rogue~]

I saw some interview with Andrew Adamson and tis was part of it:

Adamson also knew the best way to unnerve his young charges, when the drama called for it. "Skandar will bust me for telling you this," he says, laughing, but the first scene where Edmund meets the Witch, I would tease him as he was getting into the sleigh: "Snuggle up to your new girlfriend!" And he would immediately start squirming, which gave us these great uncomfortable moments on camera, because he was at that age where he didn’t like the idea of girlfriends and the thought that I was telling him to treat this intimidating, tall woman as his girlfriend … Ha!" (Skandar is now having to get used to female attention, though not quite how he may have hoped. "The other day we were in Teen Vogue and this girl came running up to me, saying ’Skandar, Skandar, you’re in Teen Vogue!’ And I’m playing it cool, like, ’Yeah, yeah, that’s me’ and she goes, ’So you must know Will!’�) :D

Hahahaha that is absolutely classic. Poor guy, see Will gets all the attention!

[Dora_the_explora]

I'm not sure if this is true but I heard that they had to take the turkish delight scene 35 times before they got it right!

[Weezie]

Yeh i have heard that before, imagine eating 35 pieces of Turkish Delight... yuk

[~Rogue~]

Yeh I read somewhere that Skandar said they were the size of his fist and he never wants to eat it again. I love that stuff especially rose flavour.

[Dora_the_explora]

Well, When I was In grade 5, My teacher read the narnia books to our class and she gave out turkish delight to everybody!
I Always hated that stuff, It's too sweet!

[~Rogue~]

It is rather like eating solid perfume or something, but I guess its like Marmite. you either love it or hate it.

[Dora_the_explora]

Do you Love it? It Feels, looks, and tastes disgusting(to me anyway)!!

[~Rogue~]

I unfortunately do love the stuff. Can't quite explain it. Let me play Edmund anyday!

[SK21]

I've never tried turkish delight before but i migght have to try some.

As for Skandar growing taller, apparently at start of film he was 4ft 9 so he rought be 5ft 5 now or 5ft 7 which is quite interesting, u can grow quite tall in the year.

[~Rogue~]

Yeah I thought about 5"7 because Tilda is 5"11 and William is just a little bit shorter than her and Skandar is only a bit shorter than him.

[Dora_the_explora]

Is $5 new zealand dollars expensive for 10 pieces of turkisk delight??

[~Rogue~]

Urm I have no idea. I paid £3 for a box of about 30 pieces of rose and lemon which I am currently eating.

[Dora_the_explora]

My sister was looking through photos and she saw that Skandar is shorter than anna in some photos and taller in other photos

[~Rogue~]

Yeh well remember it was shot chronologically so he would have been getting taller and taller.

[Dora_the_explora]

you probably think I'm dumb, But remember, I'm not even a teenager yet, I'm only 12!

[psychotic iguana]

lol, s'okay. :)

[Dora_the_explora]

$1 new zealand dollar= around3 pounds! Woah!turkish delight is soooooo expensive here!

[~Rogue~]

you probably think I'm dumb, But remember, I'm not even a teenager yet, I'm only 12!

Oh no! I don't think you're dumb at all!

[Edmund_luver101]

That's Ok...I'm mot either yet. :D

[SapphireOfSeptember]

no its not okay, we get this really good turkish delight (raha) for $3 a pound

[Edmund_luver101]

No need to hold a grudge! Of course..you haven't seen my friend hold one of his grudges! Gosh those last for days!!!