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[ramblin_rosie]

Heard Michael O'Flaherty of Walden Media on Bill Bennett's show this morning. Interesting things he had to say:
- LWW had the second-biggest December opening ever (after ROTK). Can you imagine the conversations at the Bird and Baby, were Tollers and Jack still alive?!
- The DVD should be out in April.
- Walden's already working on Prince Caspian. *squee*
- They also have several other literary adaptations set to open in '06, including How to Eat Fried Worms(! Memories....) and Charlotte's Web.
- Walden is also working on an original story called Amazing Grace, about John Newton and William Wilberforce's efforts to abolish slavery in England.
- Of interest for PPCers: William Moseley and Skandar Keynes (Peter and Edmund) have scads of fangirls, but they "both have their feet firmly on the ground" and have good families to help them stay that way. Huzzah. :)
- Georgie Henley's older sister played the adult Lucy.
- About allegory or not: "Whatever you got out of the book, you'll get out of the movie." So.

I really hope Walden does a more thorough job with Caspian and Dawn Treader than the BBC did... I was always disappointed that they'd collapsed the two books into one three-hour special. But judging from LWW, I don't think we'll be disappointed.


In other news, I'm toying with a counter-Suvian idea, but I'd like some input on it....
What I think I'd like to do is a vignette set at Cor and Aravis' wedding with a conversation between Corin and Peter on the subject of marriage. Since the books make it plain that none of the Pevensies marry, at least in Narnia, I'd like to have Peter explain why. But I'm afraid I'll get AU if I give too many specifics (Rabadash, et al.; could strain their relationship as joint rulers, if not as siblings; Peter has a hunch that they have to go back sometime but doesn't know when or to what they would return). And I'm not quite sure how to balance the statement in HHB that Lucy told their story for the zillionth time with "The Hunting of the White Stag," where they've all forgotten how they got to Narnia.
I do think I should have Corin bring up the possibility of a fellow traveler and have Peter shoot it down for the obvious reasons.
Do y'all think it would work?

Comments

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

It might work, yes. It would depend on how you handled it. It's an interesting concept. And it could explain why Susan didn't come back in the end, if you wanted to incorporate that - she might've actually gone off and gotten married while the rest of them didn't, leaving yet another reason for her not to end up with the other three back in Narnia at the end.

[ramblin_rosie]

Hm... y'know, a lot of the redemption-of-Susan fics I've read have shown Susan married. Not sure whether that would *cause* her not to go back, but it could be a symptom of her apostasy--she is, after all, too interested in the things that get guys to keep alive her connection to Narnia. But you're right, it does appear that the others remained single... can't remember about Digory and Polly, though.
Not sure if I'd address that directly in the story, but it may be something book fans would pick up on. (A lot like certain lines in the movie... I found it VERY obvious that they're setting up Last Battle!)

[ramblin_rosie]

Noooo kidding. Makes me glad I have a place like the PPC to report them to.

I had the STRANGEST Mary Sue Narnia/LOTR dream this afternoon. Aslan took out the 'Sue.