THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN

 

 

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WALT DISNEY PICTURES

and

WALDEN MEDIA

Present

   

A

MARK JOHNSON/SILVERBELL FILMS

Production

 

An

ANDREW ADAMSON

Film

  

 

THE CHRONICLES

OF NARNIA:

PRINCE CASPIAN

  

 

Based on the Book by

C.S. LEWIS

Directed by . . . . . . . . . . ANDREW ADAMSON

Screenplay by . . . . . . . . ANDREW ADAMSON

& CHRISTOPHER MARKUS

& STEPHEN MCFEELY

Produced by . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK JOHNSON

ANDREW ADAMSON

PHILIP STEUER

Executive

Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PERRY MOORE

Co-Producer. . . . . . . . . DOUGLAS GRESHAM

Director of

Photography . . . KARL WALTER LINDENLAUB, ASC, bvk

Production Designer. . . . . . . . . . ROGER FORD

Edited by. . . . . . . . . SIM EVAN-JONES, A.C.E.

Visual Effects Supervisors . . . DEAN WRIGHT

WENDY ROGERS

   

 

Costume

Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISIS MUSSENDEN

Music by . . . . HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS

Unit Production

Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIM CODDINGTON

PHILIP STEUER

First Assistant Director . . . K.C. HODENFIELD

Second Assistant

Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEFF OKABAYASHI

Special Makeup &

Creatures by. . . . . . . . . . . . HOWARD BERGER

  

 

& GREGORY NICOTERO

Co-Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . K.C. HODENFIELD

Associate Producers . . . . DAVID MINKOWSKI

MATTHEW STILLMAN

Second Unit Director. . . . . . JOHN MAHAFFIE

Film Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSH CAMPBELL

Stunt & Flight

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . ALLAN POPPLETON

Production

Supervisor. . . . . . . RICHARD E. CHAPLA, JR.

Visual Effects Producer . . ANDREW FOWLER

Post Production

Supervisor . . . . JESSIE THIELE SCHROEDER

Associate Producer . . . . . . . . TOM WILLIAMS

Script Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . ALEXA ALDEN

With

TILDA SWINTON

as “The White Witch”

  

 

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Prince Caspian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEN BARNES

Lucy Pevensie . . . . . . . . . . GEORGIE HENLEY

Edmund Pevensie . . . . . . SKANDAR KEYNES

Peter Pevensie . . . . . . . . WILLIAM MOSELEY

Susan Pevensie . . . . . . . ANNA POPPLEWELL

Miraz. . . . . . . . . . . . . SERGIO CASTELLITTO

Trumpkin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETER DINKLAGE

Nikabrik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WARWICK DAVIS

Doctor Cornelius . . . . . . . . . VINCENT GRASS

General Glozelle . . . PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO

Glenstorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . CORNELL S. JOHN

Lord Sopespian . . . . . . . . DAMIAN ALCAZAR

Prunaprismia . . . . . . . ALICIA BORRACHERO

Lord Scythely . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON ANDREU

Lord Donnon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PEDJA BJELAC

Lord Gregoire. . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID BOWLES

Lord Montoya . . JUAN DIEGO MONTOYA GARCIA

 

 

Telmarine Crier . . . . . . DOUGLAS GRESHAM

Geeky Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASH JONES

Hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KLARA ISSOVA

Asterius/Wer-Wolf . . . . . . . . . . SHANE RANGI

Faun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CURTIS MATTHEW

Telmarine Soldiers in Boat . . . . . MANA DAVIS

WINHAM HAMMOND

Midwife #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . HANA FREJKOVA

Midwife #2. . . . . . KRISTYNA MADERICOVA

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Midwife #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . LUCIE SOLAROVA

Midwife #4 . . . . . KAROLÍNA MATOUSKOVA

Midwife #5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALINA PHELAN

Boy #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSEPH MOORE

Boy #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISAAC BELL

Glenstorm’s Wife . . . . . . . . LEJLA ABBASOVA

Glenstorm Son #1 . . . . . . . EPHRAIM GOLDIN

Glenstorm Son #2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YEMI A.D.

Glenstorm Son #3 . . . . . . . CARLOS DASILVA

Lightning Bolt Centaur . . GOMEZ SANDOVAL

Wimbleweather. . . . . . . . . . . JAN FILIPENSKY

Tyrus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MOTTL

MICHAELA DVORSKA

British Homeguard #1. . . . . . . . . . JOHN BACH

British Homeguard #2 . . . . . . . JACK WALLEY

Skeptical Telmarine . . MARCUS O’DONOVAN

Telmarine Soldier

Killed by Reepicheep . . . . . . . ADAM VALDEZ

With

LIAM NEESON

as “Aslan”

  

 

Voice of Trufflehunter . . . . . . . . . . KEN STOTT

Voice of Pattertwig

the Squirrel . . HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS

Voice of Peepiceek . . . . . . . SIM EVAN-JONES

Voice of Bulgy Bear . . . . . DAVID WALLIAMS

and

Voice of Reepicheep . . . . . . . . EDDIE IZZARD

Supervising Art Director. . . . . FRANK WALSH

Senior Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . JULES COOK

Art Directors

DAVID ALLDAY PHIL SIMS

STUART KEARNS JIRI STERNWALD

MATT GRAY

Special Effects

Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERD FEUCHTER

Art Director/Greens . . . ELAINE KUSMISHKO

Makeup Designer . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ENGELEN

Set Decorator. . . . . . . . . . . . . KERRIE BROWN

Supervising

Location Manager . . . . . . . . . PETA SINCLAIR

Hair Designer. . . . . . . . . KEVIN ALEXANDER

  

“A” Camera/

Steadicam Operator . . . GREG LUNDSGAARD

“A” Camera

1st Assistant Camera . . . . . . GREGORY IRWIN

“A” Camera

2nd Assistant Camera . . . MARTIN MARYSKA

“B” Camera Operator . . . . . JAKUB DVORSKY

“B” Camera 1st Assistant Camera . . . JAN CARDA

“B” Camera

2nd Assistant Camera . . . . . . . . PETR ZAVREL

“C” Camera Operator. . . . . . ERVIN SANDERS

“C” Camera

1st Assistant Camera . . . . . PETR MACHACEK

“C” Camera

2nd Assistant Camera . . . . . . PETR VLADYKA

Camera Loader . . . . . . . . . . . DUSTY MILLAR

Digital DOP/Preview

Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAN CABALKA

Stills Photographers . . . . . . . MURRAY CLOSE

PHIL BRAY

Video Assist Operators . . . . . VIKTOR LONEK

KAREL SCHNEIBERG

Aerial Director of Photography . . ADAM DALE

CZ Casting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NANCY BISHOP

UK Casting Associate . . . . . . . . WILL DAVIES

Production Sound Mixer . . . . TONY JOHNSON

Boom Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROMAN RIGO

Sound Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . KELLY STEWART

Extras Casting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIRI JRSTKA

VFX Co-Producers . . . . . . . . . SHARON LARK

DAN BARROW

ARTHUR WINDUS

 

 

VFX Art Director. . . . . CHRISTIAN HUBAND

VFX Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . SARAH SMITH

VFX Production

Manager . . . . . . . . . . LINDSAY MCFARLANE

VFX Data Coordinator. . . CHARLOTTE HAYES

VFX Asst. Coordinator . . . . . KAMILA OSTRA

VFX Set

Wranglers. . . . . . ZUZANA PRIBYLOVA-KUO

NIKOLA SUMBEROVA

ZACH WOLF

VFX Data Wranglers . . . . FELIX POMERANZ

MIKE WOODHEAD

VFX PAs

ALASDAIR KENNY BARBARA WILDOVA

RICH WILSON SAMANTHA TOWNEND

Pre-Visualization

Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . RPIN SUWANNATH

Lead Pre-Visualization

Artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL MAKARA

SCOTT MEADOWS

Senior Previs Artist/

Postvis Supervisor . . . . . . . . ANDREAS HIKEL

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Senior Previs Artists . . GERRARD SOUTHAM

JOSHUA WASSUNG

Previs Artists . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN W.MCINNIS

JOHN GRIFFITH

CHRIS GREET

Previs/Postvis Artists . . . . . . . . . JAKUB MARE

ONDREJ ZAJIC

Jr. Previs Animators . . . . . DENISA MRAKOVA

JINDIKA SKALOVA

Assistant Stunt

Coordinators. . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL SHAPCOTT

STUART THORP

Head Stunt Rigger . . . . . . . . SHANE DAWSON

Stunt Facilitator . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAVEL CAJZL

Asst. to Stunt Coordinator . . . ERIKA TAKACS

Military Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILLY BUDD

Assistant Military Advisor . . PAUL HORNSBY

 

 

STUNTS

LUIS MIGUEL ARRANZ LOSA LUIS MIGUEL ARRANZ VILLAREAL

PAVEL BEZDEK PAVEL BOUSEK

PETR BOZDECH RADEK BRODIL

RADEK BRUNA SEAN BUTTON

BRONA CHALOUPKOVA BRETT CHAN

JONATHAN COSTELLOE FINTAN COSTELLOE

ANDREW COTTLE AUGIE DAVIS

SHANE DAWSON FRANTISEK DEAK

PETER DILLON ZUZANA DRDACKA

ZDENEK DVORACEK PAVEL DVORSCIK

HANA DVORSKA TOMAS EREMINAS

MORGAN EVANS JIRI FIRT

JAMES FLETCHER VLADIMIR FURDIK

PEDRO GARCIA GARCIA LUIS MANUEL GUTIERREZ

RENE HAJEK JAN HOLICEK

PETR HORACEK JIRI HORKY

SVATOPLUK IDLO JIRI IMBERSK

VLADIK JACUKEVICIUS MAREK JELINEK

PETR KADLEC LADISLAV LAHODA

THOMAS KIWI JINDICH KLAUS

ALES KOSNAR PAVEL KRATKY

MARTIN KRAUS JUJI LAZAROV

MIROSLAV LHOTKA DAVID LISTVAN

JAN LOUKOTA PAUL LOWE

IVAN MARES BRENT MARSHALL

BRANISLAV MARTINAK HANNAH MCMILLAN

DUNCAN MCNAUGHTON DOMINIC MELCHERS

JOAQUIN OLIAS MENA IVAN MICA

JOSE MARIA SERRANO MILANS DEL BOSCH

HIROO MINAMI ONDREJ MORAVEC

JOSEF MUDROCH EDUARDO GAGO MUNOZ

GIEDRIUS NAGYS PAVEL NOVOTNY

JON OSBORNE TOMAS PETERAC

MONIKA PODZIMKOVA JAROSLAV PSENICKA

ALES PUTIK PABLO CASILLAS QUIAN

HERNAN ORITZ REDONDO STANISLAV SAMUCHOVAS

PAUL SHAPCOTT ALLAN SMITH

JAMES SMITH ROMAN SPACIL

ZDENEK STADHERR ANDREW STEHLIN

ZOKIR SULTANOV STUART THORP

TOMAS TOBOLA TOMAS TOMAS

MAREK TOTH MARK TROTTER

NICOLAS TWOMEY MARTIN UHROVIK

MIROSLAV VALKA RAYCHO VASILEV

JAN VOSMIK LIBOR VRBA

RUDOLPH VRBA DWAYNE WILEY

MIN WINDLE TIM WONG

EUGENIO ALONSO YENES KAMILA ZENKEROVA

Assistant

Art Directors . . . . CHARLES LEATHERLAND

MARKETA KORINKOVA

On-Set Art Directors . . . . . . PETER KODICEK

KLARA HOLUBOVA

Art Department

Coordinators . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER LEWICKI

BARA BAROVA

Concept Illustrators

DOROTKA SAPINSKA MICHELE MOEN

JUSTIN SWEET JOHN DICKINSON

NATHAN SCHROEDER VANCE KOVACS

HENRIK TAMM CHRIS ROSEWARNE

Storyboard Artists . . . . . . . . . MIKE VOSBURG

FEDERICO D’ALESSANDRO

TOM NELSON

Assistant Set Decorator. . . . . . MARIAN LONG

Assistant to

Set Decorator. . . . . . . . CHRISTINA NORMAN

Production Manager . . . . . . . JANA HRBKOVA

Unit Manager . . . . . . . . . SILVIA JANCULOVA

Production

Coordinator . . . . . . . LAUREN SWEARINGEN

Production Coordinator CZ. . . . KATKA SILNA

Assistant POCs . . . . . . VERONIKA LENCOVA

GORAN ULJANIC

Production Assistants

OLGA TROJANOVA RADKA VACHALOVA

KAREL MICHALEK MARGARETA VIZNEROVA

LUDEK KRAL DANIELA OLMOVA

Production Secretary. . . MARTINA BRODSKA

1st Assistant Director CZ . . . . MARTIN SEBIK

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2nd Assistant Director CZ . . JAKUB DVORAK

Second 2nd AD. . . . . . . . . LUDEK VOMACKA

Additional

Second 2nd AD. . MARTINA GOTTHANSOVA

3rd Assistant

Directors . . . . . . . . DAVID STRANGMULLER

ROLAND SAFR

Set Production Assistants . . MIROSLAV MIKA

MARTIN CJ CIGLER

JUSTIN HAMILTON SALEM

Supervising Location Scout . JAMES CROWLEY

Location Manager . . . . . . . . . PAVEL MRKOUS

Location Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAN ADLER

Production Controller. . . . TOM UDELL, BHPA

Production Accountant . . KATHI DANIELSON

1st Assistant Accountant . . . JAMES LINVILLE

1st Assistant Accountant CZ. . . . . . PETR ZIAK

Payroll

Accountants CZ. . . . . . ZDENKA HOPJAKOVA

ANDREA PUSCHOVA

Payroll Accountant. . . . . . . . . . . . OGIE UDELL

Post Production Accountant . . . GUY BARKER

VFX Accountants. . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN URIBE

ANNE MARIE GORMLEY

Assistant Accountants

CARLA MARTINESSI MANDALINA STANISICH

MAGDA CHYLKOVA MICHAELA SCHONBEKOVA

Pre-Production

Accountants. . . . . . . . . JOANNE WOODWARD

TIFFANY FRASER

Gaffers

VACLAV ENZO CERMAK EDDIE KNIGHT

Best Boys. . . . . . . . . . . STEWART MONTEITH

ZDENEK VODVARKA

Rigging Gaffers . . . . . . . . . RONNIE PHILLIPS

JAROSLAV HROMADKA

Rigging Best Boy . . . . . . . . . . . MARTIN RAIN

Key Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN BOUMA

JAN REHANZL

Best Boy Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . HYNEK JECHA

Dolly Grip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . KAREL CHARVAT

Key Rigging Grip . . . . . . . . JIRI CTVRTECKA

Prop Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICHIE DEHNE

Prop Master CZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIRI ZUCEK

Asst. Property Master . . . . . . . . . . DAN MICHL

HOD Propmaker. . . . . ROLAND STEVENSON

Key Greensman . . . . . . . . . . . . . JON MARSON

Greens Supervisors. . PETER JAMES HOOPER

SIMON LOWE

DANIEL KING

Greens Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . MAREK VANC

Standby Greens. . . . . . . . . . . . ROBBIE PENNY

JAROSLAV JANKO

RYAN LEGGATT

SFX Set Supervisor . . BERND RAUTENBERG

SFX Technical &

Crew Coordinator . . . . . . . . . KLAUS MIELICH

Associate Costume

Designer . . . KIMBERLY ADAMS GALLIGAN

Costume Supervisor . . . DIANNE FOOTHEAD

Costume Supervisor CZ . . HANKA KUCEROVA

Assistant Costume

Designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSSANO MARCHI

KATKA MIROVA

Key Costumer. . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDREA HOOD

Costume Coordinators . . VERA TROUSILOVA

GABINA HORSKA

Standby Costumer. . . . SAMANTHA MORLEY

Stunt Costumer . . . . . . ZUZANA BURSIKOVA

Master Draper . . . . . . . . . . . JUDY NEWLAND

Costume Props . . . . . . . . . . ROBYN FORSTER

Textile Artist. . . . . . . . . . . SARAH SHEPHERD

Costume Illustrator . . OKSANA NEDAVNIAYA

Extras Coordinators . . . . . . . . . . . SIAN EVANS

ANNIE MILLER

Soldiers Coordinator . . . SARKA ZVOLENSKA

Armour Manufacturer . . . . . . . CRAZY HORSE

Sculptor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HONZA LAVICKA

Cutters and Stitchers

DALE WIBBEN EMILY BARR

TOMAS SYKORA MILENA ADAMOVA

MEREK SOBOR LARYSA SRAMKOVA

HELENA VITOULOVA IVA KOTKOVA

GABRIELA KOLACKOVA HANA SUDOVA

ROMANA MARTINKOVA

Lead Breakdown

AMY WRIGHT JAMES ROGERS

STEVEN STARKEY KAREL VESELY

JAN HRUSA

Textile and Prop Makers

ROMANA BARTAKOVICOVA IVA BARTOVA

LUCIE FABEROVA HELINA KEILOVA

MARTIN HANUS MICHAELA ROUCKOVA

PAVEL JAHODA

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Costumers

PETR PLUHAR JIRINA EISENHAMEROVA

PATRICIE SOPTENKOVA JANA MILEROVA

JITKA SVECOVA MARIA HUBACKOVA

Key Makeup

Artist . . . . . . . . . . . MELISSA LACKERSTEEN

Key Hairdresser. . . . . . . ROXIE HODENFIELD

Crowd Hairdresser

Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . CANDICE BANKS

Hairdresser . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA DVORAKOVA

Crowd Makeup Artists . . . . . . . NICOLA BUCK

HANA URKALOVA

Cast Liaison . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA ACOSTA

Executive Assistant to

Mr. Adamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALINA PHELAN

Assistants to

Mr. Adamson . . . . MARGARET E. WHITMAN

MARKETA TOM

Assistants to Mr. Johnson . . . . MARK CERYAK

EMILY ECKERT

Assistant to

Mr. Steuer . . . . . . . . . TATIANA VOMACKOVA

Dialect Coach . . . . . . . WILLIAM CONACHER

Supervising Tutor . . . . CARMELINA WRIGHT

Tutor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESTHER DAVIS

Chaperones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ZELFA HOURANI

HELEN HENLEY

Set Nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVA DVORAKOVA

Unit Publicist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ERNIE MALIK

Catering by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDA RABAN

Craft Service . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPAN COUFAL

IVAN NEMET

Transportation Coordinator . . . . . JIRI KOTLAS

Transport Assistant. . . . . . . . VACLAV HANKA

Mr. Adamson’s Drivers . . . . . DUSAN PELECH

JIMMY CARRUTHERS

Mr. Johnson’s Driver . . . . . . . . . KAREL JIRAN

Animal Coordinator . . . . . . . . MARK FORBES

Lead Horse

Trainer . . . . . . . . HERNAN ORTIZ REDONDO

Horsemaster . . . . . . RICARDO CRUZ MORAL

Grooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HANA BLUCHOVA

JOLANA SVETLIKOVA

AHA Representative . . . . . . . . LAURA SWEET

Construction

Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . MALCOLM ROBERTS

Asst. Construction

Managers . . . . . . . MARTINA TER-AKOPOWA

ROBERT VOYSEY

Armour/Weapons

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNY MORGAN

Key Armour/

Weapons Standby . . . . . . . . . JOE DUNCKLEY

Lead Standby Armourer . . . . . . . . . BEN PRICE

Extras Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON HALL

On-Set Coordinator . . . . . . . . . PETR RICHTER

Base Coordinator . . . . KAROL MARTINCOVA

Lead Standby Assistants . . . . . . . LAKI LABAN

NADIA ALBERT

GRANT BRYANT

Armour Asset Assistant . . . . . . . . . . DOT KYLE

Standby Armourers . . . . . . . . . JANA JANKOVA

JANA ODSTRCILIKOVA

MARTIN SOUKUP

Production Services

Provided by . . . . . . . . . . . . STILLKING FILMS

First Assistant Editor . . . . . . . TANIA CLARKE

VFX Editor . . . . . . . . ALASTAIR GRIMSHAW

Additional VFX Editor . . . . . . . . STEVE PANG

Assistant

VFX Editors. . . . . . . . FRANCISCO RAMIREZ

KATHRYN MOREY

Assistant Editors. . . CORAL D’ALESSANDRO

DEBORAH RICHARDSON

MARTIN HUBACEK

STEVE MATES

Editorial

Coordinator NZ . . . . . . . . GRANT KRONFELD

Editorial Trainees . . . . . . . . . . . MARK KEADY

MICHAL KRUMPAR

IT Tech Support . . . . . . . . . DUNCAN NIMMO

NIC BROWN

GARETH DALEY

Post Production

Coordinators . . . . . . . . . . CARA CHEESEMAN

LIZ RICHARDS

Sound Supervisor . . . . . . . . . JAMES MATHER

Re-Recording Mixers . . . . . . . TERRY PORTER

DEAN ZUPANCIC

Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . JIMMY BOYLE

Sound Effects

Supervising Editor . . . . . . . . DOMINIC GIBBS

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Sound Effects Editors . . . . . . JED LOUGHRAN

JOSEPH PARK STRACEY

Supervising

Dialogue Editor . . . BJØRN OLE SCHROEDER

Supervising ADR Editor . . . . . . . DAN LAURIE

ADR/Crowds Editor . . . . . . . . . . . TIM OWENS

ADR & Additional

Re-Recording Mixer . . . . . . . . . JAMIE RODEN

ADR Recordist London . . . . MARK APPLEBY

Supervising Foley Editor . . . . . DEREK TRIGG

Foley Editor . . . . . . . VANESA LORENA TATE

1st Assistant

Sound Editor . . . . . . . . . ALISTAIR HAWKINS

2nd Assistant Sound Editor . . . . ROB KILLICK

Sound Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . AMY FELTON

LUKE O’CONNELL

Studio Assistant . . . . . . . DAFYDD ARCHARD

Mix Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIEN PEREZ

VINCENT COSSON

Foley Mixers. . . . . . . . . ROBYN MCFARLANE

EDWARD COLYER

Foley Artists

CAROLINE MCLAUGHLIN PAUL ACKERMAN

SUE HARDING RICCI BUTT

Score Produced

by . . . . . . . . . HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS

Score Recorded & Mixed by . . PETER COBBIN

Music Editors . . . . . . . . . . KIRSTY WHALLEY

JOHN WARHURST

MERI GAVIN

Orchestrations by . . . . . . . LADD MACINTOSH

GEOFF STRADLING

JENNIFER HAMMOND

LARRY RENCH

Music Preparation. . . . . . . . . . JILL STREATER

BOOKER WHITE

Featured

Musicians . . . . . . LISBETH SCOTT - VOCALS

HUGH MARSH - ELECTRIC VIOLIN

RICHARD HARVEY - ETHNIC WOODWINDS

HYBRID - PERCUSSION PROGRAMMING

Concertmaster . . . PERRY MONTAGUE-MASON

Orchestra Contractor . . . . ISOBEL GRIFFITHS

Asst. Contractor . . CHARLOTTE MATTHEWS

Song Consultant. . . . . . . . . CHRIS DOURIDAS

Choirs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE BACH CHOIR

THE APOLLO VOICES

THE CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS

Additional Music by . . . . . STEPHEN BARTON

HALLI CAUTHERY

Music Technical

Assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . COSTA KOTSELAS

JODY K. JENKINS

LEWIS JONES

PAUL PRITCHARD

Score Recorded & Mixed

at . . . . . . ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, LONDON

DI by. . . . FRAMESTORE-CFC DIGITAL LAB

Senior DI Producer . . . . . . . . MARIA STROKA

Lead DI Colourist. . . . . . . . ADAM GLASMAN

Additional Colourists . . . BRIAN KRIJGSMAN

KEVIN LOWERY

Lead DI Conform

Editor . . . . . . . . . CHARLIE HABANANANDA

DI Conform Editors . . . . . HERBERT BUTLER

STUART NIPPARD

ANDREA PIRISI

DI Production Coordinators . . . . . ESME LONG

GAVIN ROUND

DI System Architect . . . . . . . JOHN LEEDHAM

Scanning &

Recording Manager . . . . . . . . ANDY BURROW

Sound Re-Recorded

at. . . . DELANE LEA POST PRODUCTION LTD.

ADR Recorded

at. . . . . . . GOLDCREST POST PRODUCTION

Visual Effects by

THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY

VFX Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . GREG BUTLER

VFX Producer . . . . . CHRISTIAN ROBERTON

Animation Supervisor. . . . . . . ADAM VALDEZ

CG Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . CLWYD EDWARDS

Composite Supervisor . . CHARLEY HENLEY

Sequence Supervisor. . . RICHARD STAMMERS

Production Manager . . . STEVEN MCKENDRY

Sequence Coordinators. . . . . . GEMMA JAMES

 

STUART MESSINGER

JAMES PROSSER

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Production Coordinators

HELEN CLARE JONNY DOIG

CLARE DOWNIE PAUL DRIVER

LORNA DUMBA GRACIE EDSCER

JANE ELLIS CHRISTINA GRAHAM

PHILIP GREENLOW SARAH MACKENZIE

TIM POUNDS-CORNISH KIRSTY WILSON

Compositing Production

Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA MOWLAM

Animation Supervisor . . . . . . . . GREG FISHER

Animation Production

Managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALLISON CAIN

FIONA FOSTER

Animation Leads

PETA BAYLEY ROBB DENOVAN

ELISABETH FRANKLIN DARYL SAWCHUK

JULIO DEL RIO HERNANDEZ JASON SNYMAN

Animators

DAVID ARMITAGE ISABEL AUPHAN

MARC BEAJEAU WEPPENAAR ANDREW BROOKS

TOM CARRICK PAUL CHARISSE

SANTIAGO COLOMO MARTINEZ TODD CONSTANTINE

DANIEL FOTHERINGHAM GEOFF HEMPHILL

ANDERS LOGSTRUP JENSEN GUILLAUME HERENT

JASON IVIMEY MATT KOWALISZYN

STEPHEN JOLLEY JASON KOTEY

MEDHI LEFFAD CHRIS MARSHALL

FLORENT LIMOUZIN SOMU MOHAPATRA

JOEL MEIRE CHRIS OLSEN

CATHERINE MULLAN JORDI ONATE

 

M. SYDNEY PADUA CHRISTOPH SCHINKO

DANIEL RAMSAY ALBERTO SANZ

EDUARDO LALO SCHMIDEK JOE SMITH

ALLISON RUTLAND GANG TRINH

GUILLAUME GLACHANT SANDY HESLOP

DANIELE MIELI SHERIN MAHBOOB

KARIN MATTSSON ASA MOVSHOVITZ

EMANUELE PAVAROTTI

Crowd Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . OLLIE RANKIN

Crowd TD

KEVIN BLOM MARCO CARBONI

EVANGELOS CHRISTOPOULUS ADAM DAVIS

ANDY FEERY FRANCESC IZQUIERDO

SIMON LEWIS CARLOS CALLE RAMOS

EDDY RICHARD TIM STRONZ RILEY

ADRIANO RINALDI SASCHA ROBITIZKI

Layout Lead. . . . . . . . STANLEY DELLIMORE

Layout

THOMAS DOW JAMI GIGOT

ELIZABETH GRAY JULIAN HOWARD

JAMES KELLY SANDRA MURTA

SALVADOR SIMÓ TIM TOWNSEND

SALLY WILSON

Technical

Animation Lead . . . . . . . . CEYLAN SHEVKET

Technical Animation . . . . ARAM BALAKJIAN

THOMAS BITTNER

BEN JONES

Mo Cap TD. . . . . . . . . . . . DUNCAN ROBSON

DEBBIE LANGFORD

Fur Groomer

Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . JEAN-PASCAL LEBLANC

Fur Groomers

GABRIEL ARNOLD VANESSA BOYCE

JESSICA GROOM MATT HICKS

DAMEON O’BOYLE CARL PRUD’HOMME

FX Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIALL FLINN

FX TD

NIGEL ANKERS CIARAN DEVINE

RICHARD GOMES ROB HOPPER

KEVIN MANNENS HARRY MUKHOPADHYAY

MARK NEWPORT DAVID STOPFORD

OLIVER WINWOOD

Cloth and Hair Simulation

HOWARD MARGOLIUS CLAIRE PEGORIER

STEVEN SANDLES DANIEL WARDER

Environments . . MIKAEL GENACHTE-LE-BAIL

RICHARD NOSWORTHY

DOUG WINDER

Look Development

Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDERS LANGLANDS

Lighting Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . PATRIC ROOS

Lighting Leads

MARK ANDREW DE LA GARZA DIEGO G. GUERRERO

KEVIN T. HAHN BJORN LILJEQUIST

DAVID MUCCI LARRY WEISS

Lighting TD

JON ATTENBOROUGH ANDREW BAGGARLEY

NIC BIRMINGHAM UROS CADEZ

RICHARD CLEGG ROBERTO CLOCHIATTI

HASLINA DASLEY BENOIT DE LONGLEE

JOE EVELEIGH CLEMENT GERARD

MARK HARRISON VLAD HOLST

BRYAN LITSON NAKIA MCGLYNN

PAUL MCWILLIAMS DAVID MENKES

MATTHEW MIDDLETON STEVE MONCUR

 

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CREDITS

RAFAEL MORANT MARCELL NAGY

RICHARD SANDOVAL SHELDON STOPSACK

FREDRIK SUNDQVIST ADRIEN SAINT GIRONS

DANIELE TOSTI JOYCE YOUNG

FABIO ZANGLA MOHAND ZENNADI

Compositing Leads

ARUNDI ASREGADOO RICHARD W. BAKER

MARK CURTIS DOUG LARMOUR

STUART LASHLEY ANGELA BARSON

Compositors

MIODRAG COLOMBO PAOLO ACRI

TERENCE ALVARES HENRY BADGETT

SUSANNE BECKER MICHAEL BRAZELTON

KELLY BRUCE DANIEL BRYANT

IZET BUCO STUART BULLEN

IVAN BUSQUETS SCOTT CHAMBERS

HAYLEY COLLINS LUAN DAVIS

JAN DUBBERKE MARCO FIORANI PARENZI

IGOR FIORIENTINI ANDREW FLETCHER

JULIAN GNASS BEN GOODSON

ALEX GURI QIAN HAN

SIMON HASLETT JEREMY HEY

GREG HOWE-DAVIES RYAN HUTCHINGS

JONATHAN KNIGHT AREK KOMOROWSKI

BENJAMIN KREBS KIRSTY LAMB

PEDRO LARA ALASDAIR MCNEILL

DANIEL MILLER MATTHEW PACKHAM

ANTHONY PECK BENJAMIN PERROT

MARTIN RIEDEL STEVE J. SANCHEZ

FLORIAN SCHUCK MARTIN SIMCOCK

MALCOLM SOUTER GIUSEPPE TAGLIAVINI

SCOTT TAYLOR GAVIN TOOMEY

OSCAR TORNINCASA JON VAN HOEY SMITH

HENRY JEFFERSON SUSAN WEEKS

 

Modeling Leads

GILES DAVIES ANDREW MCDONALD

ELLIOT NEWMAN

Modelers

GUSTAV AHREN ALFONSO COTTIER

LISA GONZALEZ DIRK MAUCHE

DAVID MAYHEW SAM ROWAN

ASHLEY TILLEY JON CAPLETON

ADAM WALKER

Texture Leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALWYN HUNT

ALBAN ORLHIAC

Texture Artists

MARTIN HESSION BENOIT JOUBERT

NERYS LINCOLN MARTIN NEWCOMBE

ADAM REDFORD PHIL YOUNG

Rigging Lead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOM REED

 

Riggers

DRAGO AVDALOVIC JAKUB KROMPOLC

ANGELA MAGRATH SIMON PAYNE

WAIKIT WAN DANIEL ZELCS

Roto Matchmove

Production Coordinator . . RACHAEL POTTER

Roto Supervisor . . . . . . . . . KIM HEADSTROM

Prep Supervisor . . CHRISTINE TROIANELLO

Match Move Supervisor . . . . . JIGESH GAJJAR

Match Move

ANTHONY ABEJURO OLIVER DALE

DREW FULCHER CHRISTOPH GAUDL

OWEN JONES MARC JONES

ALEX HISLOP JUSTIN LONG

JONATHAN MILLER RIKKI KNIGHT-TREMBATH

DAVID SUDD TAHIR PALALI

PUJA PARIKH NICK REED

STEPHEN WONG

Roto/Prep

RICHARD BAILLIE GRAHAM DAY

BENEDICT GILLINGHAM-SUTTON ANDREW HOGDEN

JONNA ISOTALUS HELEN JOHNSON

KEITH JONES PENG KE

ELLEN MIKI LEO NEELANDS

FANI VASSIADI ROB WILLIS

Shader Writers

MO SOBHY MATTHEW OVENS

PETER SEAGER

Digital Artist Leads

BEN COLE DAMIEN FAGNOU

HANNES RICKLEFS

Digital Artists

LUCY BAILEY TOM COWLAND

JAMES LEANING STEFANO GIORGETTI

ROB HUGHES PAUL-GEORGE H. ROBERTS

TOM MELSON DAVIDE PESARE

JAMES TURNER DANIELE FEDERICO

ANDREA INTERGUGLIELMI ROB PIEKE

JIMMI GRAVESEN JEFFREY HIGGINS

JONATHAN WILLS DANIEL BAILEY

DAVID GREGORY BABAK KHATAEE

ISKANDER MELLAKH PAUL NENDICK

ROBERT TOVELL CHRIS ARMSDEN

ANDREW BUNDAY PHILIP MCAULIFFE

VFX Editorial

ALED ROBINSON CHRIS COUPLAND

CAROLINE ROWLANDS

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Visual Effects by FRAMESTORE-CFC

VFX Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JON THUM

VFX Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBIN SAXEN

CG Supervisor . . . . . . . MIKE MULHOLLAND

Animation Supervisor. . . . . . . KEVIN SPRUCE

Compositing Supervisor . . MARK BAKOWSKI

Environment Supervisor . . . . KEVIN JENKINS

CG Effects Supervisor. . . . MARK HODGKINS

Rigging Supervisor . . . . . MATTHIAS ZELLER

Look Dev & Lighting

Supervisors . . . . . . . SHADI ALMASSIZADEH

PAUL BEILBY

IAN COMLEY

CG Leads

DANIELE BIGI ROBERT BYRNE

NICK EPSTEIN JOHN-PETER LI

ARON MAKKAI MARK OSBORNE

SAUL REID MARTIN TARDIF

CG Lighters

MARK BAILEY CARL BIANCO

JOHN CHATAWAY NOEL HOCQUET

RICKY KANG STEVEN KHOURY

PATRICK LOWRY LASZLO MATES

OLIVER MCCLUSKEY ALESSANDRO MOZZATO

CARLO CHRISTIAN NICKEL ROBERT O’NEIL

STEFAN PUTZ ANDREW ROWAN-ROBINSON

WILSON STOCKMAN RUPERT THORPE

Lead Animator . . . . . . . . . . . . PHILIP MORRIS

Animators

LAURENT BENHAMO ROSS BURGESS

FERRAN CASAS ARSLAN ELVER

CATHERINE ELVIDGE JAMES FARRINGTON

SAMY FECIH DANIEL GERHADT

JORDI GIRONES NICOLAS GUEROUX

SANTIAGO HURTADO NATHAN MCCONNEL

PHILIP NGUYEN TO RHIANNON NICHOLAS

KEVIN O’SULLIVAN CRAIG PENN

SIMON PICKARD MATHIEU POIREY

JURE PREK ALISON SANDERS

NICOLAS SECK BRAD SILBY

SIMON THISTLETHWAITE MATHIEU VIG

Environments. . . . . . . . . . DANNY GEURTSEN

 

DAREN HORLEY

HIROAKI MURAMOTO

Massive TDs BRIAN GOODWIN

BENJAMIN LOCH

ALAN WOODS

CG Effects

JAMES ATKINSON DAVID DEES JOHNSON

ALEXANDER HESSLER FLORIAN KRAFT

JOE THORNLEY

Modelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MYLES ASSETER

IRFAN CELIK

SAMUEL REMFRY

Riggers . . . . . . . . . MAXIMILIAN MALLMAN

NICOLAS SCAPEL

SEBASTIEN POTET

Texture Artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SWEEKIM LAI

JEAN-DAVID SOLON

Fur Developers. . . . . . . . . . GEORGE HARKER

ALEXANDER ROTHWELL

OLIVIER SOARES

Fur

Groomers . . . OHKBA AMEZIANE-HASSANI

MATT BELL

NATALIE HOMEWOOD

Compositing Leads

SEAN DANISCHEVSKY CHRISTIAN KAESTNER

JEREMY SAWYER DENIS SCOLAN

DAVID SHERE ANTHONY SMITH

Compositors

AARON BARKLEY GIACOMO BARGELLESI SEVERI

TOM BASKAYA RONAN BROUDIN

WARWICK CAMPBELL JOSE FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO

JASON FLEMING JULIEN GOLDSBROUGH

BRYAN JONES ZOE LAMAERA

KIRSTY LAWLOR MARTIN MUELLER

BRUCE NELSON PER GUSTAF NILSON

STEVE PARSONS HOWARD PROTHEROE

THOMAS PEGG RAJAT ROY

MARKUS SCHNEIDER WENRUI SEDDON

MATT TWYFORD

Lead Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . TOM PARTRIDGE

Senior Production . . . . . . . LUCINDA KEELER

SARA TREZZI

VFX Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ILLONA BYTH

TUREA BLYTH

PETER FORSON

VFX Coordinators . . . . . MICHAEL CURRELL

CLAIR GALPIN

Paint & Roto Artists

REBECCA CLAY JAMES FLEMING

MARC HANKEL FREDERIC HEYMANS

SARAH JUNIPER PAVAN KUMAR

NICHA KUMKEAW AARON LEAR

PETER LOGARUSIC EPHRAIM MWAKANDU

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CREDITS

CAROLINE PIRES JAMES ROBERTS

PRAGTI WADHWA MARGARET WALBY

MELISSA WIDUP

Match Movers

SABINA BEJASA-DIMMOCK ANDREW BRITTAIN

DANIEL BUHIGAS LEE DEXTER

JAMES LIU DANIEL LLOYD-WOOD

TOM MORTIMER RADHIKA PATEL

TOBY WINDER

Digital Artists

MATT BARNETT JAMES BRAID

DAIRE BYRNE NARDEEP CHANDER

LUCA DAMIANI DAVE ROBINSON

Visual Effects by

WETA DIGITAL LTD.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

Executive Producer . . . . . . . . EILEEN MORAN

Supervising VFX Editor . . . . . MATT HOLMES

VFX Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . GUY WILLIAMS

VFX Producer . . . . . . . . . REBECCA DOWNES

Rotoscope Supervisor . . . . SANDY HOUSTON

Paint Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . QUENTIN HEMA

Digital FX Supervisor . . . . . . . DAN LEMMON

2D Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . COLIN ALWAY

CG Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAKE LEE

Senior Production

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN L. SHERWOOD

Production Manager. . . . . . . STEPHEN NIXON

Pre-Production Manager . KATHRYN HORTON

Animation Supervisor . . . . . . . . . PAUL STORY

Animation Lead. . . . . . . . . DANIEL BARRETT

Production Coordinators. . . . JULIETTE DAVIS

SUSIE MAY KLEIS

Models Supervisor . . . . . MARCO REVELANT

Creatures Supervisor . . . . . . . . DANA PETERS

Camera Supervisor. . . . . . . . LEE BRAMWELL

VFX Art Director . . . MICHAEL PANGRAZIO

Digital Imaging Manager . . . PETE WILLIAMS

3D Department Manager . . KRISTINA FLACH

Senior Animators

GRAHAM BINDING RICHARD DEXTER

MARCHAND JOOSTE JALIL SADOOL

JOHN SORE JEE YOUNG PARK

3D Leads

FRANK DUERSCHINGER JANE O’CALLAGHAN

MARK GEE MIAE KANG

JEAN MATTHEWS

3D Lighting TDs

MICHAEL BALTAZAR HAMISH BELL

SAM BUI CHRISTOPHER EDWARDS

ZACHARY FRANKS ANNE HALL

KATHERINE HURST JASON LAZAROFF

MINGZHI LIN CHRISTOPH MATTHIESEN

JENNIFER NONA ALEX NOWOTNY

ANTON OGNYEV ALIREZA RAZMPOOSH

MAHRIA SANGSTER ALESSANDRO SAPONI

GLEN SHARAH GEOFF TOBIN

JEDRZEJ WOJTOWICZ KELLY BECHTLE WOODS

2D Sequence Leads . . . . . . . . . . . . LYSE BECK

HELEN PAUL

CHARLES TAIT

2D Production Manager . . . . . GAYLE MUNRO

Digital Colourist . . . . . . . . . JOERG BUNGERT

Lead Compositors

NORMAN CATES PAUL CONWAY

DAVID HOUGHTON LAURE LACROIX

ALFRED MURRLE MARK RICHARDSON

Senior Compositors

JOHAN ABERG GG HEITMANN

TIM HEY SIMON JUNG

MASAKI MITCHELL DAVID PHILLIPS

CATERINA SCHIFFERS CAMERON SMITH

HOLLY ACTON JEAN-LUC AZZIS

MARK BARBER DAVID BRUNETT

PETER CONNELLY STEVE CRONIN

BRETT DIX ERICH EDER

GEOFF HADFIELD ED HAWKINGS

SEAN HEUSTON MATT HOLLAND

MICHAEL LANZENSBERGER STEVE MCGEE

STEVE MCGILLEN BEN MORGAN

HANNAH PEIRCE PAUL REDICAN

KARIM SAHAI CHRISTOPH SALZMAN

HAMISH SCHUMACHER STEVE TIZZARD

Senior Modeler. . . . . . . . . MARCO DI LUCCA

Models Department

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . JESSICA FERNANDES

Lead Modelers. . . . . . FLORIAN FERNANDEZ

PAUL JENNESS

JAMES OGLE

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Digital Modelers

MATTHEW BULLOCK CEDRIC CANLAS

WILLIAM J. EARL NICHOLAS GAUL

ROJA HUCHEZ SUJIN PARK

JOSE SAMSON JOHN STEVENSON-GALVIN

MATSUNE SUZUKI SHANNON THOMAS

MICHAEL TODD JAMES WILLINGHAM III

CLARE WOODFORD-ROBINSON JAMES MOORE

Creatures Department

Manager . . . . . . KRISTIE BRESLIN-HUSSON

Lead Creature Supervisor . . ANDREA MERLO

Lead Creature TDs . . . . . . . . . JAMES JACOBS

ERIC TANG

PETER MEGOW

Creature TDs. . . . . STEPHEN CULLINGFORD

JAMES GAMBELL

JOHN HOMER

SUNNY TEICH

Senior Texture Painters. . . . . . . . . MIA ASKEW

PAUL CAMPION

LINA HUM

MEL JAMES

Texture Painters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE BAIN

SHAR STEWART

Textures Coordinator . . JENNAH RASMUSSEN

Matte Painters/

Concept Art . . . . . . . . HOVIG ALAHAIDOYAN

PETER BAUSTAEDTER

YVONNE MUINDE

TODD O’SULLIVAN

Senior Camera TDs . . . . . . . MATT MUELLER

WOLFGANG NIEDERMEIER

STEPHAN REMSTEDT

ALBRECHT STEINMETZ

ALEX KRAMER

Senior On-Set

Camera TD. . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL SARKIS

On-Set Camera TD . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE KELLY

Camera Production

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . SANDY COCO TAYLOR

Match Mover. . . . . . . . . . MARZENA ZAREBA

Senior Paint & Rotoscope Artists

PAULA BELL JIM CROASDALE

PAUL EVERITT CHRISTINE FEISTL

TROY RAMSEY BRAD SELKIRK

Rotoscope Artists

KATHLEEN BEELER ADAM BRADLEY

TIM CHENG EVAN CHRISTIE

DANNY JONES SETH MILLER

DAVID OWEN EMRYS PLAISTED

ROXANNE SUTHERLAND VALENTINE PHIL VAN DER REYDEN

VFX Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . LUCAS PUTNAM

Associate VFX Editor. . . . . . . . . BEN HATTON

Visual Effects by

SCANLINEVFX MUNICH – LOS ANGELES

VFX Supervisor . . . . STEPHAN TROJANSKY

2D VFX Supervisor . . . . . . . GABRIEL DEDIC

CG Supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IVO KLAUS

 

JOHN HAN

VFX Producers . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL MIELKE

ISMAT ZAIDI

SARA LEE

Simulation

ROMAN SCHMIDT JULIA MURCZEK

KORBINIAN MEIER SEBASTIAN KUECHMEISTER

DANIELLE PLANTEC MASAKAZU MURAKAMI

Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . MASCHA JÜRGENS

CHRISTIAN KRATZERT

Shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEREON ZWOSTA

CHRISTIAN POKORNY

Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLAUDIA KNORR

MIN DUC TRAN

Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . OLIVER KIRCHHOFF

THORSTEN ROLLE

Compositing Lead . . . . . . . . . . . KAI WOYTKE

TAMARA STONE

Compositing Artists

FINLAY HOGG STEPHAN SCHWEIZER

JOERG BAIER MARTIN ZWANZGER

MANDA CHEUNG

K.N.B. EFX GROUP, INC.

Shop Foremen. . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL DEAK

SHANNON SHEA

Art Department Supervisor . . . . . . ALEX DIAZ

Art Department Crew

GINO ACEVEDO JAREMY AIELLO

JAMIE GROVE AKIHITO IKEDA

JORDUE SCHELL AARON SIMMS

ANDY SCHONEBERG JOHN WHEATON

EDDIE YANG JAVIER ZEPEDA

Mold & Lab

Department Supervisor. . . . JAMES LEONARD

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CREDITS

Mold & Lab Department Crew

CHRIS CERA BARRY CRANE

JEFF DEIST ROB FREITAS

JOE GILES BRIAN GOEHRING

JOHN HALFMAN GRADY HOLDER

CARI JONES TIM LEACH

GILBERT LIBERO STEVE MUNSON

GARY PAWLOWSKI DIRK ROGERS

FRANK RYBERG CALEB SCHNEIDER

LINO STAVOLE AJ VENUTO

BRANDON WHYNAUCHT CHRIS ZEGA

Fabrication Department

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETH HATHAWAY

Fabrication Department

FRANCISCA CAMPOS VALERIE CRAWFORD

CONSUELO DURAN JON FEDELE

TERRI FLUKER PENNY MACKIE

KAREN MASON BRUCE MITCHELL

LYNETTE ROY JOHN SHEA

KATHERINE SULLY

On-Set Fabrication Crew . . SERENA HIGGINS

VIRGINIE LEBRUN

Foam Department

Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . BEN RITTENHOUSE

Foam Department Crew. . . . . . . . STEVE KATZ

DEREK KROUT

JASON PINSKER

PATRICIA URIAS

CHRIS WALKER

 

DERIK WINGO

Monster Makers

Foam System . . . . . . . . . ARNOLD GOLDMAN

Seaming Department

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . TONY MATIJEVICH

Seaming Department

Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTINA PRESTIA

Hair Department Supervisor. . . MARK BOLEY

Hair Department Crew

JERI BAKER TODD BATES

ANNELIESE BOIES JACK BRICKER

CONSTANCE CRISWELL KARIN HANSON

PHANNIN JIAVILAIVUI NICOLE MICHAUD

PAUL MOLAR RON PIPES

RAPEEPORN RODCHOMPU KHAN TRAN

DOMANIQUE TROIAN

Mechanical Department

Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROB DERRY

Mechanical Department

DAVE WOGH CHAD ATKINSON

JEFF EDWARDS ERIC FIELDER

HARRISON LORENZANA LON MUCKLEY

MARK RAPPAPORT LEONARD MACDONALD

DWIGHT ROBERTS

KNB Production

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . VERONICA TORRES

KNB Production

Manager/Accountant . . . . . . . . . RANDY BALL

Purchasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDSAY VIVIAN

KNB Assistant

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . JACKIE KOLOMPAR

KNB On-Set Coordinator. . . . MARK BALLOU

Assistant On-Set

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . ELISKA MALIKOVA

Key Prosthetic Makeup Artist . . . . TAMI LANE

Prosthetic Makeup Artist . . . SARAH RUBANO

On-Set Makeup Artists

ADRIAN ATWOOD ARTURO BALSERIO

LIBA BARLOVA KATHERINE BROWN

LISA BUSCHER VINCENZA CELENTANO

MEGAN CHASSAY JANA DOPITOVA

MICHAEL FIELDS LISA FOOTHEAD

VASEK FRANK KRISTELLE GARDINER

JO GROVER KERRIN JACKSON

DAVID JONES PAUL KATTE

TOMAS KUCHTA JENNIFER LATOUR

GORAN LUNDSTROM VIVIAN BLISS MACGILLICUDDY

ANDREA MCDONALD ANGELA MOOAR

CLARE MULROY RUZENA NOVOTNA

GABINA POLAKOVA JANE OKANE

LUKE POLTI CLARE RAMSEY

TRACEY REEBY JESS REEDY

IVO STRANGMULLER TRISTAN VERSLUIS

ELKA WARDEGA KEVIN WASNER

Aslan Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . JEFF HIMMEL

Satyr Supervisor . . . . . . . . . DAWN DININGER

Specialty Wardrobe, Armour & Weapons by

RICHARD TAYLOR

 

WETA WORKSHOP, NEW ZEALAND

Workshop Manager . . . . . . . . TANIA RODGER

Workshop Supervisor . . . . . GARETH MCGHIE

Business Manager . . . . . . . . ANDREW SMITH

Production Manager . . . . . . GRANT BENSLEY

Accounts . . . . . . WENDY BAMBRO-TILYARD

 

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Purchasing Officer . . . . . . . JONATHAN EWEN

Assistants to Richard Taylor. . . . RI STREETER

LINDA HUGHES

Production

Assistants . . . . . . . . EMILY-JANE STURROCK

SHERRYN MATTHEWS

TRACEY MORGAN

Runner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSS COLLINGE

Design Department

Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . KATE JORGENSEN

Stills & Videographer. . . . . . . . STEVE UNWIN

Designers

GUS HUNTER PAUL TOBIN

NICHOLAS KELLER BRAD GOFF

BEN WOOTTEN DANIEL FALCONER

STEPHEN CROWE STEPHEN LAMBERT

WARREN MAHY CHRISTIAN PEARCE

JOHNNY FRASER ALLEN

3D Modeling Supervisor . . CHARLOTTE KEY

3D Milling Supervisor . . JORDAN THOMSON

3D Modeling . . . . . . . ULI BECK SCHNEIDER

LUCY CANT

RUSSELL BROWNING

ED DENTON

TIM GIBSON

3D Model Support. . . . . . . JOHN MCMULLEN

AKSAHY PARBHU

Weta Costume/Armour

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATT APPLETON

Costumes & Armour

MIKE GREALISH DARIN GORDINE

CARL PAYNE TREE HARRIS

NADINE JAGGI RUPERT GROBBEN

GABRIELLE BERTOGG PRANEE MCKINLAY

TIRA O’DALY CLAIRE PREBBLE

JASMIN VAN LITH

Specialty Weapons & Props

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN HARVEY

Weta/Tenzan Supervisors. . . . . . . . FRED TANG

GRANT WALLIS

Specialty Weapons & Props

MICHAEL REITTERER CALLUM LINGARD

DANIEL BENNETT NIKO KAYE

ALEX FALKNER VIBOL MOEUNG

DALLAS POLL GARETH JENSEN

COLIN JACKMAN KRISTOS FOCAS

MATT WARD JOE PAICE

RICHARD THURSTON CARLOS SLATER

STEPHEN EDWARDS ANDREW MOYES

DAVID MACLURE RICHARD MATTHEWS

NICHOLAS ANTUNOVIC DANIEL COCKERSELL

BRYCE CURTIS CHRIS COVICH

NEIL SCHRADER PIETRO MARSON

DAVID MENG ERIN PALMER

DARREN MOSHER CLAIRE MIDDLETON

DAVID TREMONT FRANCES RICHARDSON

Armoury/Swordsmith

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETER LYON

Swordsmiths . . . . . . . . . . . . WAYNE DAWSON

STUART JOHNSON

Sculptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAX PATTE

BEN HAWKER

BILL HUNT

GREG TOZER

GARY HUNT

Mold Making

Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL WALLACE

Mold Makers . . . . . . . . BRIAN STENDEBACH

MASAYASU MINOURA

SIMON GODSIFF

Paint Department

Supervisor . . . . . SOURISAK CHANPASEUTH

Painters

LES NAIRN JOHNNY BROUGH

DORDI MOEN ANDREW GORDON

PAUL HAMBLETON CHARLOTTE BOWIE

GENEVIEVE COOPER

Engineering Supervisor . . . . . . . . DAVE IRONS

Engineer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETER OSBORNE

Miniatures Supervisor . . . . . . GREG ALLISON

Miniatures

JOHN BASTER PAUL VAN OMMEN

REBECCA ASQUITH DON BROOKER

DAN HORTON SUZI DYKES-SMITH

MARCO WUEST MARY PIKE

MELISSA BRINSDIN FRAZER ANDERSON

SHARI FINN DUNCAN BROWN

NEIL MARNANE ISAAC MAYES

JAMES FRENCH NATHAN MITCHELL

RYK FORTUNA HIROSHI TANG

Visual Effects by

STUDIO C

VFX Supervisor . . . . . . CARLOS ARGUELLO

 

Additional Visual Effects by

RISING SUN PICTURES

 

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SECOND UNIT

 

Director of Photography. . . MILAN CHADIMA

1st Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . PHIL JONES

Production Manager . . MARTINA BURGETOVA

Unit Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIRI HUSAK

“A” Camera/Steadicam . . CAMERON MCLEAN

“A” Camera 1st Assistant

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANTISEK NOVAK

“A” Camera 2nd Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAN VOJTECH

“B” Camera Operator . . . . . . . . . . JIRI MALEK

“B” Camera 1st Assistant

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIBOR BRUHA

“B” Camera 2nd Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HYNEK PANTUCEK

1st Assistant

Directors CZ . . . . . . . . . . FRANTISEK REZEK

MICHAELA STRNADOVA

2nd Assistant Director CZ . . JAKUB ELIASEK

Second 2nd Assistant

Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAREK SEDLARIK

3rd Assistant

Directors . . . . . . . . . . . VLASTA KARERABEK

JIRI KOLARSKY

Set Production Assistants . . . . . . . JIRI SPACEK

ANTONIN ZOUBEK

Art Director/

Standby . . . . . . . . . JASON KNOX-JOHNSTON

Video Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIRI SÍP

Cable Guy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTIN MECKO

Key Grip/“A” Dolly Grip . . ROBERT KODERA

Best Boy Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAN HLADIK

Gaffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETR KONRAD

Best Boy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETR SULC

Extras Coordinator . . . . . DUSAN ROBOVSK_

Set Nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ONDREJ DVORAK

HANA POKORNA

Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIRL TICHACEK

Assistant Accountant . . . . KAROLINA CERNA

Payroll Accountant . . . KRISTINA LUKASOVA

Costumers . . . . . . . . . . . . PHILLIPPA O’BRIEN

JENNY RUSHTON

Standby Costumer. . . . . ELISKA PETROVSKA

Production Coordinator. . . . . . . JANA VESELA

Assistant Production

Coordinators. . . . . . . . . . LENKA PAVLAKOVA

MARTINA VLASAKOVA

Production Assistant . . GEORGIA MAHAFFIE

SFX Floor

Supervisor . . . ALBRECHT VON BETHMANN

SFX Foreman . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL LUPPINO

Script Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . KAZI KOPECKA

Key Hair &

Makeup Artist . . . . . . . . . . KAREN EDWARDS

Hair & Makeup Artists. . . . . LUCIE KUPROVA

RADEK PETR

Key Armour/Weapons Standby. . ROB GILLIES

Extras Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIM TOZER

Lead Standby Armourer. . . . . . . SIMON WARD

Production Sound Mixer . . . . ROBERT DUFEK

Boom Operator. . . . . . . . . . MARK WILLIAMS

2nd Boom Operator. . . . . TOMAS CERVENKA

VFX Production

Manager . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA MCDOWELL

VFX Data Wranglers . . . . . . . . . . JON BROWN

FILIP SANDERS

VFX Set Wranglers. . . . . ALICE KOSNAROVA

EWA SZCZEPANIAK

VERONICA ZVOLSKA

VFX

Coordinator . . TEREZA MANDIC LISTIKOVA

Transport Coordinator. . . . LENKA LIKAROVA

NEW ZEALAND UNIT

2nd Assistant Director . . . . . . EMMA HINTON

3rd Assistant Directors. . . ARMAND WEAVER

GABRIEL REID

Production Coordinator . . . . . . . . . JUDY DALE

Location Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . ERIC NAPIER

Art Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . JILL CORMACK

DAVE COOKE

Assistant Art Director NZ . . TONY WILLIAMS

“A” Camera 2nd Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PHILIP SMITH

“B” Camera Operator . . . . . RICHARD BLUCK

“B” Camera 1st Assistant

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEAN MCCARROLL

“B” Camera 2nd Assistant

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GARTH MICHAEL

“C” Camera 1st Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ULRIC RAYMOND

“C” Camera 2nd Asst Camera . . SAM BAILEY

Digital Preview Technician . . NISHA SAMUEL

Set Production

Assistants. . . . . . . . . . KENDALL FINLAYSON

SIOBHAN NOLAN

VFX Production

Manager NZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON COWAN

Digital Video Assist

Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIGEL BURTON

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Video Assist Assistant . . . . . VANESSA WOOD

Key Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAY MUNRO

Best Boy Grip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BAZ MCGINN

Dolly Grip “A” Camera . . . . . . . MICK VIVIAN

Dolly Grip “B” Camera. . . . . . . SIMON JONES

Rigging Grip . . . . . KARL RICKARD-WORTH

On-Set Best Boy. . . . . . . . . . . . . LEIGH MEAR

Best Boy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REAGAN JONES

Best Girl Grip . . . . . . . . . . MELISSA RIRINUL

Key Grip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LUKE SAULBREY

Gaffer NZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEAN O’NEILL

Best Boy Electrics Off-Set . MIKE LOUGHEED

Best Boy Electrics On-Set . . . JOHN ENRIGHT

Rigging Gaffer. . . . . . . . . . . MARK GILLINGS

Best Boy Rigging Electrics. . . HENARE MATO

Casting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIZ MULLANE

Extras Casting

Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA BEYNON

Cast Liaison . . . . . . . SALLY-ANN LOUISSON

South Island

Location Manager . . . . . . . CARL BEAUMONT

Production Accountant NZ . . DAVID ROWELL

Horse Trainer . . . . . . . WAYNE MCCORMACK

Leadman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PHRED PALMER

Assistant Propsmaster . . . . KARMA RUSSELL

Props Buyer . . . . . . . . . . . . ANGELA DURBIN

Standby Props . . . . . . . . . . . . NYREE WINTER

Costume Supervisor. . . . . . . . NICOLA CLEGG

Set Costumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUZ DECK

JASMINE EDGAR

Assistant Production

Coordinators . . . . . . . . . . . KARLA WALLACE

KELVIN J. PADFIELD

Preproduction Office

Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . ANGELA THOMAS

Production Assistants . . . . . . . . EVE PETCHER

FIONA WADMAN

Key Makeup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANITA AGGREY

Paramedic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK GABITES

SFX Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON DUREY

Workshop Supervisor . . . . . . . DEAN CLARKE

Construction Manager . . . . . . . . PHIL CHITTY

Construction Coordinator . . . . TANYA BIDOIS

Construction Foremen . . . . . . . . JED HOOKER

FRANCIS ASKWITH

HOD Greens . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL HOFFMAN

Greens Leading Hands. . . . . . DAVE WISHART

TIM BUTT

Standby Greensman . . . . . . . CHRISTIAN PICK

Transport Manager . . . . . . . . . . . REG GIBSON

Transport Captain . . . . . . . . . AARON GIBSON

Transport Coordinator. . . . . . . . . KAY TAYLOR

On-Set Transport Coordinator . . . ISAAC LANE

Aerial 1st Assistant

Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER BUTCHER

Aerial Director of

Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEVE KOSTER

Drivers

ALLENE GIBSON SCOTTY CHIPLIN

DONNA HARVEY ESTHER CLEWLOW

ELIZABETH LANE CAMERON LOGAN

JULIE GUNSON GRAHAM HUGHES

Aerial Unit Shoot

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNIE DODMAN

Locations

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . MEIGHAN DESMOND

NEW ZEALAND SECOND UNIT

Director of Photography . . BRAD SHIELD, ACS

Unit Production

Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON AMBRIDGE

Production

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . ANDREW COCHRANE

Assistant Production

Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KYLIE GAUDIN

Production Assistants . . ALANA MARTINERO

STEVE BROWN

DEAN JOHNSTON

Unit Accountant. . . . RACHAEL CAMPBELLO

2nd Assistant

Director . . . . . . . . . . STEPHANIE WESTRATE

Additional Assistant

Director . . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD MATTHEWS

Set Production Assistant. . . . RICHARD MILLS

“A” Camera 1st Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRENDEN HOLSTER

“A” Camera 2nd Assistant

Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEN ROWSELL

Costumer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS PICKARD

Greens Foreman. . . . . . . . . . . . DREW FRASER

Gaffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK GILLINGS

Best Boy Electrics . . . . . . DAVID SARGINSON

Key Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAM STRAIN

Best Boy Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSH DUNN

Dolly Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON JONES

Makeup Artist. . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL KREHL

Hairdresser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHEN ROSE

Set Nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CATH BEATTIE

Water Safety . . . . . . . . . STEFAN CRAWFORD

Script Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH HINCH

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Sound Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE WESTGATE

Boom Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATT CUIRC

MINIATURES UNIT

Director of

VFX Photography. . . . . . . ALEX FUNKE, ASC

Production Manager . . . . BELINDALEE HOPE

Production Coordinator . . NAOMI WALLWORK

1st Camera Assistant . . . . . . HARRY SLOWEY

Focus Puller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE KNUDSEN

1st Assistant Director. . . . . . . . . . . ROD SMITH

Gaffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROB KERR

Script Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . MERRIN RUCK

Motion Control Operators . . . . . HUGH SMITH

HENK PRINS

OLLY COLEMAN

Lead Model

Technician. . . . . . . . . . . FRASER WILKINSON

Model Shop Coordinator . . . . . . IVAN ROODA

Model Technicians . . . . . NICOLE COSGROVE

KATE COSGROVE

NICK MOORE

SFX Assistant/Stage Hand. . . . . ANDY SOUTH

Mocon/Camera Engineer . . . . . MARTIN JAGO

Model Assistant . . . . . . . . ALEKS SAKOWSKI

Motion Control Technician . . . . . . TONY REED

POLAND UNIT

Line Producer for

Ozumi Films . . . . . . MARIANNA ROWINSKA

Production Manager. . . . . . JANUSZ B. CZECH

Production

Coordinator . . . . . . . MAGDALENA GENSLER

Production

Assistants . . . . . . . . . . KRZYSZTOF WARWAS

FILIP JACOBSON

MARTA KOMOROWSKA

Location Manager . . . MIKOLAJ POKROMSKI

PA Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAREK CZPAK

Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . PATRYCJA ZLOMEK

Production Services in Poland

Provided by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OZUMI FILMS

Production Coordinator/

Accommodation . . . . . . . . . . PAULINA CZECH

SLOVENIA UNIT

Line Producer for

Propeler Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIEGO ZANCO

Production Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . IRA CECIC

Assistant Production

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NINA MAJCAN

Unit Production Manager . . . FRENK CELARC

Location

Manager . . . . . . . . ZDRAVKO MADZAREVIC

Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARKO KOPAC

Payroll Accountant . . . . . . MAJA SLATENSEK

Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATJA SOLTES

Assistant Art Director . . . . . . . JANEZ STUCIN

Assistant Location Manager . . . . MATEJ FELC

Construction Services. . . . . GORAZD HUMAR

PRIMORJE GROUP

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the animal action. No animal was harmed

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TOWN OF KUDOWA ZDROJ, POLAND

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MUNICIPALITY OF BOVEC, SLOVENIA,

 

MAYOR DANIJEL KRIVEC

 

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Written by Regina Spektor

Arranged and Produced by

Harry Gregson-Williams

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Performed by Oren Lavie

 

“This Is Home”

Written by Jonathan Foreman, Andy Dodd

and Adam Watts

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Brian Malouf

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Andy Dodd

Mixed by Brian Malouf

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:

PRINCE CASPIAN

 

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

 

The wardrobe is gone…the White

Witch is dead…and Aslan has been

missing for over 1,000 years.

Now, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy

Pevensie are beckoned back to Narnia to

find a vastly different world, where a new

enemy stalks the battlefield and the land’s

kindly creatures find themselves on the

brink of extinction.

Walt Disney Pictures and Walden

Media present THE CHRONICLES OF

NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN, the second motion picture based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved

series of literary classics. The film continues the spectacular story that began with the Oscar®winning

2005 release, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”

which earned over $745 million in its worldwide theatrical release, making it one of the most

successful movies ever made, and one of

the biggest successes in the annals of the

Walt Disney Studios.

Acclaimed director Andrew Adamson

(the Oscar®-winning “Shrek,” “Shrek 2”)

embarks on his second Narnian film

adventure from a screenplay he co-wrote

with Emmy® Award-winning writing

partners Christopher Markus & Stephen

McFeely (HBO’s “The Life and Death of

Peter Sellers”), who also co-scripted the

first film. Adamson also reunites with the producers of the first Narnia movie—Academy

Award® winner Mark Johnson (“Rain Man,” “Bugsy,” “The Notebook”) and Philip Steuer

(“The Rookie,” “The Alamo”). Also reprising their roles are executive producer and former

Walden Media executive Perry Moore and co-producer Douglas Gresham, author Lewis’

stepson.

Once again toplining as the Pevensie children are the four young British talents discovered

by Adamson for the first film: 12-year-old Georgie Henley as Lucy, the youngest and the first

to encounter the great Aslan on their new journey through Narnia; 16-year-old Skandar

 

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Keynes as Edmund, the younger boy who betrayed his siblings for his own selfish gain in the

first adventure; 19-year-old Anna Popplewell as Susan, the cautious and practical older sister;

and 21-year-old William Moseley as Peter, the eldest of the siblings and now High King of

Narnia who valiantly leads the battle to save his realm from the tyrannical reign of the evil

King Miraz.

The film’s title character is played by

Ben Barnes, a 26-year-old British stage

actor best known for his role in the drama

“The History Boys” for London’s

National Theatre Company, the first West

End staging of Alan Bennett’s award-

winning play. He recently completed the

film adaptation of Noel Coward’s “Easy

Virtue” opposite Jessica Biel and Colin

Firth, starred in the independent feature

“Bigga than Ben” and had a featured role in Matthew Vaughn’s fantasy film “Stardust.”

Also co-starring in the new film are Peter Dinklage (“The Station Agent,” “Death at a

Funeral,” “Elf ”) as Trumpkin the Red Dwarf, who accompanies the Pevensie children on their

new journey, and Warwick Davis (“Willow,” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “Return

of the Jedi”) as the suspicious Black Dwarf, Nikabrik.

Veteran Kiwi actor Shane Rangi (“Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe”) plays Asterius, the aging minotaur, and British musical theater star Cornell S.

John (Sir Trevor Nunn’s “Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,” Julie Taymor’s “The Lion King”) is

Glenstorm, the leader of the centaurs.

The film’s international cast includes

acclaimed Italian actor-director Sergio

Castellitto (“The Big Blue,” “Mostly

Martha,” “Don’t Move”) as the villainous

King Miraz; fellow Italian performer

Pierfrancesco Favino (“Night at the

Museum,” “Romanzo Criminale”) as the

leader of the Telmarine army, General

Glozelle; Mexican star Damián Alcázar

(“Men with Guns,” “And Starring Pancho

Villa as Himself ”) as Lord Sopespian,

another high-ranking soldier in Miraz’s army; Spanish actress Alicia Borrachero

(“Periodistas,” TV’s “Hospital Central,” “Love in the Time of Cholera”) as Miraz’s loyal wife,

Queen Prunaprismia; and veteran French-Flemish actor Vincent Grass (“Vatel,” “Ma Vie en

Rose”) as the wise old sage, Doctor Cornelius.

Scottish actor Ken Stott (“Casanova,” “King Arthur,” “The Boxer”) lends his vocal talents

to the CGI character of Trufflehunter, the faithful badger. Academy Award® nominee Liam

Neeson (“Schindler’s List”) returns as the voice of Aslan the Lion, and veteran English comic

Eddie Izzard (TV’s “The Riches”) voices Reepicheep, the swashbuckling mouse.

Inspired by Lewis’ imaginative creations, the story’s human cast will once again be

complemented by a gallery of original creatures portrayed onscreen in the combined efforts of

 

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live action and CGI animation under the supervision of returning visual effects co-supervisor

and Oscar® nominee Dean Wright (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,”

“Titanic”), who will collaborate this time with VFX veteran and longtime Adamson ally

Wendy Rogers (“Shrek,” “Flushed Away”).

The pair, who supervised over 1,600 CGI shots for the film, teamed with the movie

magicians at London’s Moving Picture Company (all five “Harry Potter” films, “Wallace and

Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit”), the Oscar®-winning Framestore-CFC (“Superman

Returns,” “Children of Men,” all five “Harry Potter” films) and Weta Digital in New Zealand.

Five-time Academy Award®-winning visualist Richard Taylor (“Lord of the Rings” trilogy,

“King Kong”) and the wizards from his Weta Workshop designed the film’s armor and

weaponry for Narnia’s new inhabitants,

the Telmarines.

Oscar® winners Howard Berger,

Gregory Nicotero and Tami Lane also

return to design and apply the film’s

special makeup effects, manufacturing

hundreds of creature prosthetics for many

of the unique characters in the story. KNB

EFX Group, Berger’s award-winning

design house in Los Angeles, fabricated

several full-scale animatronic suits for the

story’s unique Narnian beasts, which include minotaurs, satyrs and centaurs.

Oscar®-nominated production designer Roger Ford (“Babe,” “Peter Pan,” “The Quiet

American”), award-winning costume designer Isis Mussenden (“Shrek,” “Shrek 2,” “10 Items

or Less”), film editor Sim Evan-Jones (“Shrek,” “Shrek 2”) and Grammy®-nominated

composer Harry Gregson-Williams (“Shrek,” “Shrek 2,” “Flushed Away”) all repeat their roles

from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, bvk

(“Independence Day,” “Stargate”) joins Adamson’s technical team as director of photography.

In addition to its commercial success,

“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”

also earned numerous awards, including

the Oscar® for Best Achievement in

Makeup, as well as nominations for visual

effects and sound; the British Academy

(BAFTA) Award for Best Makeup, along

with nominations for visual effects and

costumes; Golden Globe® nominations

for Best Movie Score and Alanis

Morissette’s original song “Wunderkind”;

and a pair of Grammy® nominations for score and Imogen Heap’s original composition “Can’t

Take It In.”

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN began filming on February 12,

2007, for six weeks on both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, where locations

again included Henderson Studios’ soundstages as well as brand-new sites on the country’s

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Haast River Valley bordering the Tasman Sea on the country’s verdant South Westland coast,

and forests near Paradise Valley and Glenorchy outside of Queenstown.

After concluding the New Zealand portion of the schedule in late March, the company

relocated to Eastern Europe and the legendary soundstages at Prague’s Barrandov and

Modrany Studios. Key exterior locations in the Czech Republic included the Northern

Bohemian city of Usti, the primary site of the film’s epic climactic battle, and locales in

Poland and Slovenia.

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The enchanting characters of C.S. Lewis’ timeless fantasy come to dazzling life again in

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN. This time out, the Pevensie

siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund and

Lucy—are magically transported from

World War II-era England to Narnia

through a tube station near London’s

Trafalgar Square, embarking on a perilous

new adventure and an even greater test of

their faith and courage.

One year after the incredible events of

“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”

the former kings and queens of Narnia

find themselves back in that faraway

realm, only to discover that more than 1,300 years have passed in Narnian time. During their

absence, the Golden Age of Narnia has faded into legend. The land’s magical talking animals

and mythical creatures exist as little more than folktales to the Telmarines, a race of humans

led by the merciless Lord Miraz. The mighty lion Aslan has not been seen in 1,000 years.

The four children have been summoned back to Narnia by Caspian, the young heir to the

Telmarine throne, to combat his evil

uncle, Miraz. With the help of a crusty,

valiant dwarf (Trumpkin), a courageous

talking mouse named Reepicheep and a

mistrustful Black Dwarf (Nikabrik), they

lead the Narnians on a remarkable

journey to restore magic and glory to the

land.

Prince Caspian is the second of Lewis’

seven-book Chronicles of Narnia series,

which includes The Voyage of the Dawn

Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, The Last Battle

and the story that launched the series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Published

between 1950 and 1956 and long regarded as one of literature’s most enduring and imaginative

classics, Lewis’ books have sold over 100,000,000 copies in more than 35 languages, making

it one of the biggest book series the world over.

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Gresham (the son of Lewis’ wife, Joy

Davidman Gresham, and her first

husband, novelist William Lindsay

Gresham) worked for over 20 years to

bring Lewis’ books to the big screen.

Following the resounding success of “The

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”

Gresham is embarking on what he calls

“the second chapter in a lifelong dream.”

“I watched that dream come true when

‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’

exploded onto movie screens around the world in 2005,” Gresham exclaims. “I always

expected the movie to be a delight and a joy to world audiences, but I have been somewhat

humbled by its level of success.”

Producer Mark Johnson believes the second film has surpassed the original in many

respects. “This movie is bigger than ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,’” he says. “It’s

bigger in terms of the number of people behind the camera. It’s bigger in terms of the number

of people in front of the camera and, most importantly, it’s bigger dramatically. The themes

that we’re playing out here, and the relationships, are much bigger and a bit darker than they

were in the first film.”

Director Adamson explains: “PRINCE CASPIAN tells the story of Narnia 1,300 years after

the Pevensies left. The Telmarines have taken over Narnia and driven all the creatures into the

forest. Prince Caspian, the rightful heir to the throne, has been ousted by his uncle, Miraz.

Caspian blows Susan’s horn to bring the Pevensie children back to Narnia to save the land

from Miraz, this unrightful king.”

The story reminds Johnson of the films

he loved as a kid. “It harkens back to some

of those movies that were full of adventure

and swashbuckling and brave characters.

We even have a castle and a moat! On top

of that, it takes place in Narnia, so it

involves C.S. Lewis’ imagination.”

Unlike the first movie, which

deliberately started small and built to the

epic battle scene, PRINCE CASPIAN

starts big and gets even bigger. “We’ve seen that epic world now,” notes Adamson. “So, at the

beginning of this movie, we had to start epic and then get more epic. We had a lot more

exterior locations. We had castles and kingdoms created by a new race of men, the Telmarines.

So there was this whole new world to design. Also, this film is probably a little darker and

grittier than the last one, partly because the children are older, making the story more adult

in nature.

“In the last film, I think we went to some pretty dark places,” he adds. “Aslan’s death,

certainly, is one of the darkest moments in the film. I think this movie has the potential to be

even more sinister. Miraz is potentially someone that we might actually see in real life, which

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“‘The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe’ is a very emotional story about

sacrifice and forgiveness,” Adamson says.

“In some ways, this is a more personal

story, a story of these kids returning to a

place that they love but that no longer

exists. This is more about coming to

adulthood, about growth and adventure.”

That idea resonated with the director

on a personal level. Although born in New

Zealand, Adamson spent his formative

teen years in Papua New Guinea, “which no longer exists as I remember it growing up. For

me, it’s a similar experience for these four children as they venture back to Narnia, a world

that is not the same as when they first went there.”

“When I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child, I remember getting to the

end of it and thinking, ‘Well, hang on a sec,’” Adamson recalls. “These guys were kings and

queens. They ruled Narnia for 15 years. They fought battles. They won wars against giants and

now they have to go back to school? I wanted to see what happened next.”

“PRINCE CASPIAN is a completely different story from ‘The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe,’” producer Johnson explains. “The children have adjusted to a varying degree to

being British school kids again. All of a sudden, they’re brought back to Narnia because they

are needed to help save the land once again.”

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“It’s a wonderfully nostalgic story,” adds Adamson. “Basically, the children have come back

to a place that they’ve longed to be, the place they ruled for 15 years. Everything has changed.

Cair Paravel is in ruins. The people they know have been driven into the wild. Aslan hasn’t

been seen for 1,000 years. They’ve got to come to terms with that, and at the same time, try

to restore Narnia as they know it.”

That theme intrigued the screenwriters

as well. “It’s an area Lewis left mostly

untouched,” offers screenwriter Markus.

“Lewis memorably examined what it

would be like for a 1940s school kid to

become King of Narnia. However, he

didn’t much consider what it would be

like for a King of Narnia to return to

being a 1940s school kid.”

“Their year back in London must have

been awkward at best,” adds writing partner McFeely. “Given their different personalities,

each Pevensie handles the situation with varying levels of success. Their sudden return to

Narnia pushes different buttons in each.”

And, how do the experiences of the four young British actors compare to what their screen

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The eldest of the foursome, 21-yearold

William Moseley, says his anticipation

and anxiety to get back in front of the

movie cameras echoed what his character

Peter endured in the time between his 15year

reign of Narnia and his return to the

kingdom in the new story. Just like his

character, the handsome British native

returned to secondary school.

“Finishing the first film was an

amazing experience,” he says. “Then it

was all taken away. Even though I didn’t react the same way Peter does, I can really understand

how he feels.”

Once the senior sibling returns to Narnia, “he becomes slightly arrogant,” the actor notes

of his character. “There’s fighting within the group. Peter cannot accept Caspian. His plans are

not set from his heart, but from his ego. Even when he doubts himself, he still is too stubborn

to back down and accept that he might be wrong. And ultimately, he pays the highest price.”

In the process, Moseley says, his character becomes a man. “When he gets back to Narnia,

it’s 1,300 years later and people don’t know he’s a high king. They just see a boy. Peter has to

prove who he is to the Narnians.”

“When we cast William as Peter, he was just 15 and had never done anything like this

before,” Adamson notes. “William’s transformation was not dissimilar to that of his character,

Peter, in the story, from this 17-year-old boy into a young man. I don’t think he’d even been

on a movie set before. He was just this really great kid you wanted to be your big brother. And

now, William has turned out to be a handsome and capable young man.”

Adds co-star Anna Popplewell, “Although William is 21, he’s playing a 16- or 17-year-old.

But he’s an adult now. I had my first audition with him when I was 13. And we really have sort

of grown up together. Everyone has grown up a little bit, and changed a little bit,” she

observes.

However, Popplewell did notice how the character of Susan had changed when she read

through the script. “Susan gets to be involved in a bit more action this time,” the actress

enthuses. “I loved doing the fighting scenes. I loved being in the raid and the battle and getting

my teeth into some of the stunts. I didn’t get to do much of that in the first movie.”

The film marks the end of Narnia’s road for the eldest Pevensies, Susan and Peter.

Popplewell admits, “I feel incredibly lucky to have had this experience, a fantastic time. And

I’d so much rather have been here than not been here. But, at the same time, it’s really sad that

I won’t be coming back.”

After finishing “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Popplewell concentrated on her

secondary school studies and landed a coveted spot at Oxford’s Magdalen College, the same

school where author C.S. Lewis served a three-decade tenure from 1925-54, although she did

not know of Lewis’ longtime connection to the college until she read a biography of the famed

author.

Co-star Georgie Henley has grown into a bright and studious 12-year-old who has written

two of her own stories, The Snow Stag and A Pillar of Secrets.

About Lewis’ imaginary world, its story and its characters, Henley says, “They’re just

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brilliant because of the way C.S. Lewis

wrote them. He didn’t put too much

description in, so Narnia is almost our

complete imagination. We can interpret it

however we like. I think that most people

have their own interpretation of these

books and these characters.”

Henley acknowledges two changes in

her character in the second film. “In the

last film, I was sweet little Lucy, and now

I’m a bit more ‘actiony,’ which was quite

fun,” she says, adding that she spent time learning to ride a horse and wield a dagger for her

role. “Also, Lucy stands up for what she believes in more than in the last film—her faith in

Aslan. She’s braver and she has her own view about what she thinks is right. She sees Aslan

before her siblings do, which I think shows Lucy’s trust in Aslan more than the others.”

Producer Mark Johnson describes Lucy Pevensie’s dilemma as a fundamental question of

faith. “She’s asking, ‘Who am I? What is the right thing to do?’ Her conscience dictated a lot

of what she did on the last film. In this one, it’s put to some pretty severe tests.”

Skandar Keynes, who plays Edmund, was 12 when he started shooting the first movie. By

the end of PRINCE CASPIAN, he had turned 16. Despite his being five years younger than

his co-star Moseley, Keynes sees his character as taking the role of the older brother in his

relationship with the elder sibling Peter this time out.

“Edmund is always looking out for Peter,” says the young actor. “He always helps him, but

never gets the credit he deserves and that gets to him a bit. It’s one of the recurring themes—

how Edmund’s always helping Peter out. You know, there was even a day on the call sheet

where the scene description was ‘Edmund

saves the day.’ I didn’t let anyone forget it.

I walked around with a call sheet in my

hands all day saying, ‘Edmund saves the

day.’ That was really cool.”

Co-star Moseley believes moviegoers

will see the Pevensies in a new light in

PRINCE CASPIAN. “Peter and Susan

especially. These two had challenges in

the first film, but nothing on this level. I

think audiences will be surprised and

engaged by both the physical battles and the emotional battles endured by our characters.”

“They’ve all grown up really well,” director Adamson says, sounding like a proud parent of

the young actors portraying the Pevensie clan. “A large reason for me to do this again was

working with the same children. There is this wonderful relationship between the kids, how

they became a family and how they let us become a part of that family. There’s change in very

positive ways in growing up, but I’d like to say the movie didn’t change who they are, which

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The characters battling for control of the vastly altered Narnia are played by two new faces

on the Hollywood movie scene—the young, charismatic British stage actor Ben Barnes as the

film’s title character and seasoned Italian movie star Sergio Castellitto, who embodies pure

evil as King Miraz.

Barnes was no stranger to the C.S. Lewis literary series. “I was a massive Narnia fan as a

kid,” Barnes exclaims with the exuberance of an eight-year-old boy delving into the novels for

the first time. “I definitely remember the books being a big part of my childhood. When I found

out I got the part, I looked through my bookshelves and found this copy of Prince Caspian with

a 1989 copyright, when I

was eight.”

“We took a long time to

find Ben and saw many

actors for this role,”

Johnson says. “We needed

a young man who could

be heroic, but who also

had something in his

personality that reflected what the character learns through the journey in this film.”

English casting veteran Gail Stevens had an assistant who had seen Barnes in the recent

West End staging of the award-winning drama “The History Boys.” When she contacted his

agent, the actor taped an audition reading for Adamson.

That video introduction led to a personal audition where the director crowned him the star

of his new movie. “When we finally met Ben in person, we found him charming and fun and

comfortable. He won us over,” Adamson recalls. “You could see from his effort and

enthusiasm how much he wanted the role. I admired his work ethic.”

Barnes’ whirlwind adventure began almost immediately. Costume fittings, horseback-

riding practice, dialect lessons, fencing and stunt rehearsals consumed his early days and

weeks on location in New Zealand.

In addition to immersing himself in the

role, he also had to find a place for

himself in a tight-knit film family. All

four Pevensies were anxious to meet

Barnes and see how he would fit in when

he first arrived in New Zealand.

“He became an honorary Pevensie,”

jokes Keynes. “And the fact that he was

25 when we made the movie made

everyone else act a bit more mature.”

“Ben had a lot to live up to before we’d

even met him,” says Popplewell. “Especially for William and me, because we knew that we

were not in the next story. We were, in a sense, passing the films onto someone whom we

really liked. He had that something that we very much connected with.”

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for a campaign against his own people, the Telmarines. “They’re trying to kill him,” Barnes

explains. “I blow the magic horn and summon the Pevensies back to Narnia. Peter, as the High

King, rightfully assumes that he’s in charge. We both have different ideas about how we should

go about defeating my evil uncle, which leads to this conflict between us.

“Even though the story takes place in a fantasy world, you have to play every moment as

truth,” says Barnes. “I hope those moments translate into something that the audience can

really become involved with. If so, they will get behind Caspian and see him through from the

beginning to the end of his journey.”

“The adult characters are much more scary in this film,” says Moseley. “The White Witch

was scary, but you’ve seen nothing until you’ve seen Miraz. I fought both of them one-on-one,

and Miraz took my breath away. It was really interesting watching Sergio change into Miraz.

He takes on a whole new persona!”

During the casting process for the evil Miraz, the filmmakers were immediately intrigued

with Castellitto. “Sergio is one of the most accomplished and well-regarded European actors

around today,” says producer Johnson about his screen villain. “As soon as we saw his audition

tape, we said, ‘Let’s explore this further.’”

Castellitto’s lengthy acting resume includes some of Italy’s best-known movies over the last

quarter century. He is well known for roles in Luc Besson’s “The Big Blue” and Best Foreign

Film Oscar® nominees from Italy such as “La Familia” and “L’Uomo delle stele.”

“I have a lot of admiration for Andrew Adamson because he pays attention to the

psychological aspect of the performance and character,” Castellitto says. “We spoke about the

character as a human being. We spoke about the battle between youth and age. The good and

evil is evident in that dichotomy between Miraz and Caspian.”

Once actor and director had established Miraz’s psychological profile, they next turned to

his physicality. The physical look of the

film’s human cast fell to a team of

makeup magicians led by two-time

Academy Award® nominee Paul Engelen

(“Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,”

“Lord of the Apes,” “Casino Royale”) and

hair designer Kevin Alexander (“Casino

Royale”).

Engelen, a 40-year industry veteran

with one of his craft’s best professional

resumes, in collaboration with Adamson,

created a Mediterranean look for the Telmarine characters. The longtime makeup artist felt

immediately that Miraz should have some kind of beard. “The character of Miraz demanded

that he be very forceful and intimidating for the part to succeed, and I very soon arrived at the

triangular design we decided to use,” Engelen says. “I enlarged the chin area with an extension

piece. With the addition of extended eyebrows, some darker color in and around the eyes, and

the character’s trademark earring, we ended up with a good character look for Sergio.”

Add to this a wardrobe that costumer Mussenden describes as “a bit pirate, barbaric in

character, but sophisticated in style and all inspired by images of 15th-century Spanish soldiers,”

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Howard Berger and his award-winning makeup magicians had been waiting two years to

return to Narnia. “We were chomping at the bit to go back for the next film and get a chance

to revisit all the Narnian inhabitants we helped create for the first film,” Berger says.

Berger was eager to create the new,

wilder look of the creatures of Narnia,

who have been living in hiding for

centuries when the film begins. “In

PRINCE CASPIAN, we had heavyset

fauns, old-age fauns, female dwarves,

African-Narnian centaurs and their

families. The minotaurs are now on the

side of good. We have a new hag, a

werewolf and the satyrs are back, but all

redesigned to be more animal-like.”

The task would require a large staff of experts ranging from concept artists to creature-suit

fabricators, from hair designers to latex-piece manufacturers. “We estimated close to 3,000

makeups on the film, which would keep the foam department busy almost 24/7 for the next

nine months. We ended up applying 4,600 makeups by the end of the shoot, which is, I believe,

a world record,” Berger reports.

Berger and a team of more than 40 special makeup artists gave birth to the film’s more

fantastical creatures. “My favorite Narnians are the dwarves,” Berger says. “We had two

fantastic dwarf characters in the film: Trumpkin, played by Peter Dinklage, and Nikabrik,

played by Warwick Davis. We designed some very intricate makeup applications to transform

them into Narnians.”

When the role of Trumpkin was being conceived, director Adamson knew that Dinklage

was his first choice to play the role. “I knew when I saw ‘The Station Agent’ that I wanted to

cast him,” the filmmaker says.

“He’s the first actor we cast for this movie,” exclaims Johnson about Dinklage. “He’s just

phenomenal.”

Once signed on, Dinklage turned to the books—which he did not read as a youth—for

research and inspiration. He describes his character as “curmudgeonly” but adds “too much

of that and you’re not going to want to spend time with him on the journey. Let’s just say that

the Pevensies annoy him, and he’d rather have a glass of wine back in his tree.”

Before agreeing to take the role, Dinklage caught a glimpse of what Trumpkin might look

like when he visited with Adamson in Los Angeles for an introductory meeting. The

filmmaker showed Dinklage some of the pre-visualization materials, “some computer

animation of what appeared to be these big battle sequences,” the actor remembers.

“I sat there in this room filled with computers and watched as my likeness came up in these

computer images,” he continues. “I had never seen anything like that before. It was weird,

really, but I felt like I couldn’t say no at that point.”

Even with this unexpected peek at Trumpkin’s appearance, Dinklage had no notion as to

what Berger and his team would devise to transform the blue-eyed actor into a vivid Narnian

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unrecognizable, except for his piercing eyes.

Working from a concept painting of what Berger envisioned for the character, Lane began

the daily two-and-a-half-hour transformation by shaving Dinklage’s head completely and

painting it. She dyed his eyebrows before gluing on latex face pieces. Finally, the makeup

artist tacked on the intricate hair work that turned Dinklage into a fantastical, otherworldly

creature.

“The last thing was a really long, red beard and wig made of yak hair,” Dinklage says. “And

somewhere there’s a yak on top of a mountain who’s very cold. And I’m sorry. However,

because we filmed in the summer in Prague, it was not the coolest of makeups for me.

“With a lot of makeups, you can lose the actor underneath them,” the actor continues.

“Howard and Tami really managed to make me look completely different and still allowed my

expressions, my emotions, to come through.”

“Peter brought so much life to the character,” says Berger. “I always say that a makeup is

half successful if we do our jobs right. That, plus the performance, made Trumpkin truly alive

and believable. We gave Trumpkin his look. Peter gave him his heart.”

While Lane concentrated her daily efforts on actor Dinklage, fellow makeup artist Sarah

Rubano won the assignment to metamorphose Warwick Davis into a character the actor

himself calls “sour inside.”

“Howard’s makeup was loads of help for me in understanding the character,” says Davis.

“Then you find the character’s voice. Then Isis’ costume, which was such an immaculate piece

of workmanship…while the detail may not come across for audiences, subliminally, it’s all

there. As an actor, it makes you feel so at home in the character. I lived, worked and fought in

those clothes. You are then placed in the surroundings, the sets, and magically, you are in

Narnia.”

“Warwick is an actor who has been able to imbue all of his characters with something

different,” notes producer Johnson.

“That’s what I prize most in an actor—

surprises. I think his Nikabrik character is

very surprising because he is irascible, yet

speaks real logic. Nikabrik has really paid

for the fact that Narnia has been under the

thumb of the Telmarines. So he has some

real surprises as a character up his

sleeve.”

Davis was intrigued by a clever

illustration of the character done by one

of Berger’s associates at KNB, John Wheaton. “It was brilliant, because it was me, but as an

old man. It was my photograph over which he painted the character concept. It captured

Nikabrik perfectly.”

When Davis looked in the mirror after the marathon session, “What I saw was the character

in three dimensions that Howard’s artist had portrayed in two dimensions,” the actor notes. “It

was astounding.”

Another daily visitor to Berger’s trailer camp was English musical-theater star Cornell S.

John, who plays Glenstorm, the powerful Afro-Narnian centaur who aids Prince Caspian and

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“For Glenstorm, Andrew wanted a tall and imposing actor of African descent,” casting

director Stevens remembers. “Glenstorm is a wise, spiritual character who is also a great

warrior, so he needed to move with grace and dignity. We did a global search that went as far

afield as Africa and found Cornell in London. We had known and admired him in many

leading roles in musical theater and opera, from ‘The Lion King’ to ‘Porgy and Bess.’”

John endured a lengthy makeup process that transformed the actor into one of mythology’s

quintessential creatures, the centaur—half man and half horse. Latex face appliances

combined with green-screen tights over which the VFX magicians superimposed the body and

legs of a horse turned the soft-spoken actor into one of the film’s most imposing creations.

“I’m 160-percent Mike Fields, the guy who did my makeup,” John states. “In the

beginning, I had no idea what I should look like. I was hoping for something that expressed

honor, pride and tradition. Because centaurs can live for hundreds of years, there’s no age limit

on this. I put myself at 170 Earth years. This face of Glenstorm is the face of time.”

And, as they did on the first film, KNB created life-sized animatronic puppets and suits for

the CGI character of Aslan for use on the set during filming.

“Andrew wanted him to be 15 percent larger,” says Berger. “We were able to utilize the

digital scanning information from the first film and have Cyber FX mill out a new sculpture

15 percent larger than the first. We ended up with a very large lion in the shop.”

The face of Reepicheep, the swashbuckling mouse, did not come from the brush of one of

Berger’s talented artists. Instead, the rodent was born from the strokes of a keyboard mouse,

through computer software under the control of VFX co-supervisor Wendy Rogers.

“I grew up on the Narnia books and Reepicheep was definitely one of my favorite

characters,” director Adamson says of the gallant, honorable and noble mouse who wields “a

tiny little rapier,” in author Lewis’ description of the character. “He was ingrained in my

imagination. The trick here was finding the right voice. He was difficult to find, but we finally

cast Eddie Izzard for the part.”

The filmmakers auditioned over 100 voices to find the right actor to bring the character to

life, says producer Mark Johnson. “Eddie Izzard’s voice came closest to the seriousness of the

character and yet didn’t in any way repel us or not let us have immediate affection for

Reepicheep.”

Once the filmmakers chose Izzard, Rogers focused on physicalizing the character.

“Reepicheep is a big mouse, some 22 inches tall,” Rogers explains. “That will take some

suspension of disbelief. At that size, we still have to make him feel like he’s a mouse. We have

to find the correct balance between anthropomorphizing Reepicheep and maintaining the fact

that he is a real animal—a mouse.

“The voice actor plays such a big part in defining the character,” Rogers continues. “It’s not

the fact that the animated character resembles the actor playing him. The actor may do some

mannerisms or a physical flourish, like wave a sword. We have lipstick cams at these recording

sessions to capture that. That helps our exploration of who the character is.”

Of all the Narnian characters London-based visual effects house The Moving Picture

Company (MPC) had to create for PRINCE CASPIAN, Reepicheep was the one requiring the

most art direction and overall attention to detail, says MPC’s Greg Butler. “One of the first

challenges was that a very big mouse would be hard to keep looking ‘mousey.’ We wanted to

make sure Reepicheep didn’t end up looking like a rat. We also had to work out an anatomy

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as well as four legs.”

“This story is Reepicheep’s introduction,” says Adamson. “Dawn Treader will be his story.

What we’ve done is establish him for the next Narnia adventure. I didn’t really get to exploit

him like so many other characters. But he is so worthwhile and interesting.”

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C.S. Lewis began Prince Caspian with the following passage:

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy,

and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

how they had a remarkable adventure.

The second remarkable journey for Adamson and his team of artisans and actors (which

numbered about 2,000 by the time filming ended) began while the first project was still in

post-production. While screenwriters

Markus and McFeely toiled on the script,

pre-visualization artist Rpin Suwannath

coordinated a staff of 12 artists and

started visualizing the movie in a

computer.

“Pre-visualization is the process of

creating computer-generated animatics

that serve as a creative, technical and

useful tool for budgeting the movie and

let Andrew visualize his scenes months

before he shoots them,” explains Suwannath, who oversaw the same responsibilities on the

first movie.

The process was vital to Adamson’s ability to mount a film of this magnitude. “It helps you

see pieces of the puzzle that aren’t there on the day you direct these huge scenes,” the director

says. “I can’t imagine not using pre-vis for a movie like this.”

While Suwannath and his team began to visualize the world of Narnia inside their

computers, the filmmakers began their lengthy, global search to find locations that would

evoke a vastly different realm than the winter landscape depicted in “The Lion, the Witch and

the Wardrobe.”

“Narnia doesn’t exist,” says Mark Johnson. “Except in C.S. Lewis’ imagination. And in

Andrew Adamson’s vision. In putting together this physical Narnia, we had location scouts all

over the world for almost a year before filming began, trying to find places we could use to

portray Narnia.”

James Crowley, who served as location manager on the first film, along with a team of

regional scouts, went to 20 countries, spanning six continents.

“There was a predetermined feeling about New Zealand,” Crowley says. “Europe was also

discussed, but not where specifically. Part of this was due to the seasons. For this story, we

needed an endless summer, so the seasons and the hemisphere played a huge factor in

determining the final locations for the movie.”

The filmmakers ultimately chose to shoot in the Czech Republic (including Prague, Usti

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and the Brdo region near Dobris), Poland (Stolowe National Park near Kudowa-Zdrój; the

Kamiencyka Gorge in Szklarska Poreba), Slovenia (the River Soca in Bovec near the country’s

only national park, Triglavski Narodni Park) and New Zealand.

“The thing that New Zealand offers that a lot of places don’t is a proliferation of old-growth

forests,” Adamson says, explaining what drew him back to his native country. “There’s not an

area of Europe that hasn’t been felled and regrown at some point, so finding an old-growth

forest is very difficult. In New Zealand, the whole west coast of the South Island is covered

with ancient forests.”

Shooting began at two breathtaking sites on the Coromandel Peninsula’s Mercury Bay,

which served as the settings for scenes in which the Pevensie children take their first steps

back into Narnia: Cathedral Cove, a spectacular beach on the eastern shore of the peninsula,

and a majestic bluff rising several hundred feet above the ocean where the siblings discover

the ruins of Cair Paravel.

The company then departed for the country’s South Island, a magical place offering some

of the planet’s most glorious scenery. Three sites were chosen for the two-week trip south. The

first two, spectacular rivers in the country’s South Westland area have been given aliases to

prevent them from being overrun by tourists—the “Westland River,” a scenic site which

dramatically empties out to the Tasman Sea, and “Glasswater River.”

This second locale is defined by a dramatic river chasm bookended by cascading waterfalls

that plunge 200 feet into the glassy waters. The water shimmered so clearly, actress Popplewell

says, “Audiences won’t believe it’s real water because it appears to be an optical illusion

created by VFX in post-production.”

The third South Island site chosen for filming was Paradise, a privately owned horse ranch

about an hour’s drive from Queenstown. “There were a couple of locations that were perfect

for this movie that only New Zealand could offer,” says Johnson. “In many ways, it is a

fairytale country with the kind of locations that make your jaw drop. New Zealand gave us the

magic of Narnia.”

After a ten-day break in production to relocate scores of crew members and the film

equipment literally halfway around the world, PRINCE CASPIAN resumed filming in Prague,

also known as “the City of 100 Spires” because of the plethora of church and castle towers

that dot its skyline.

“Prague is a popular place for film

shoots,” says Johnson, “for a number of

reasons. They have very good film crews;

all the necessary equipment and

soundstages are available here; and it’s a

relatively inexpensive place to shoot,

which is a real factor these days.”

The location was also an advantage for

the cast. “It was really difficult on the

children and their families to spend six or

seven months in New Zealand on the last film,” he says. “From central Europe, they could be

back home in England in a couple of hours. That was really important for them.”

The capital of the Czech Republic doubled for World War II England with the collective

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Rudolfinum, one of the city’s grand

concert halls, was transformed into

Trafalgar Square circa 1941, with a bit of

help from VFX supervisor Wright, who

rotoscoped in footage from that era.

Prague is also the home of legendary

Barrandov Studios, which has attracted

plenty of large-scale productions over the

last decade, of which this film is

reportedly the biggest. Since its

beginnings in 1931, Barrandov has

launched the careers of cinema giants including Milos Forman, Jirí Menzel and the late Ján

Kadár. In recent years, Hollywood has brought in productions including “Casino Royale,”

“The Brothers Grimm” and “The Bourne Identity,” as well as “The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe.”

The studios are large enough to house a small forest. In fact, Barrandov’s brand-new “Max”

Stage 8 became C.S. Lewis’ Dancing Lawn, an indoor forest complete with a sophisticated

sprinkling system to feed the living set. “Dancing Lawn is a place so deep in the forest that

the Telmarines have never found it,” production designer Roger Ford explains. “In the book,

it’s a place where the fauns and other Narnian creatures go to dance in the night. In the film,

it’s the place the Narnians gather to plan their campaign with Caspian.”

The designer used Lewis’ scant descriptive phrases as the inspiration for his vivid

interpretations of the film’s settings. He did not take his obligations lightly, understanding that

his interpretations would be closely scrutinized by fans.

Ford’s signature set piece was the mammoth castle courtyard built on the studio’s backlot.

The set, which he calls a character in the story, began with Lewis’ simple phrase: “Caspian

lived in a great castle…” Six stories high, the castle shoots some 200 feet into the sky,

courtesy of VFX augmentation, and contains more than 20,000 square feet of interior space.

The magnificent design took 200 carpenters, painters, sculptors and other craftspeople 15

weeks to build.

Two symbols were chosen to emphasize that the Telmarines “are warlike, and not a very

nice bunch of chaps,” according to Ford. Much of the Telmarine world is adorned with the

head of an eagle, which embellishes not only the castle courtyard on the backlot and the

crossbows used by the Telmarines, but the arms of the various thrones scattered throughout

Miraz’s Great Hall.

In addition, Ford was inspired by the Telmarines’ origins as a pirate culture to use the

compass on the soldiers’ shields in the architecture of the Great Hall and in the banners

fabricated for each of the 21 lords under Miraz’s rule.

Equally impressive in scope and detail are the ruins of the Stone Table in the How, where

Aslan the Lion was sacrificed in the first story. The crypt-like, circular structure was carved

out of plaster and polystyrene, with pillars reaching dozens of feet towards the stage’s towering

ceiling. It contains a series of detailed plaster carvings that depict the history of the Narnians

over the past 1,300 years.

“The How was such an important storytelling piece because of the Stone Table,” explains

supervising art director Frank Walsh. “We had to develop and tell the story of what happened

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during those missing hundreds of years. These carved stone panels are all very important

images.”

Adamson came up with the idea of “a channel or trough around the How directly beneath

the wall carvings,” Ford says. “It is a well of oil that Caspian lights with a torch. The flames

encircle the room, lighting up the panels.”

“We couldn’t use real oil or burning liquid because it’s hard to control,” explains

mechanical effects supervisor and designer Gerd Feuchter. “We had to create a special

propane burner which we then placed underneath a level of colored water.” The grid of

propane valves sat underwater in the circular trough, which baffled set visitors, who had no

idea that propane could burn underwater.

Ford’s crew spent over two months in the Bovec region of Slovenia erecting a massive

bridge over the River Soca and its tributary Gljun for the setting of what may be the most

memorable moment in the film, the River God sequence.

“In the book, the Bridge at Beruna is built by the Telmarines hundreds of years earlier,” says

the designer. “When the Narnians are finally victorious, Aslan calls on the River God to

destroy the bridge and free the river.”

Industrial engineers were called in to reroute the river’s flow to accommodate Ford’s set

designs for the scene. The film’s bridge was constructed out of oversized pine logs lashed

together with massive ropes. It had to be a practical bridge that could hold 200 soldiers (and

dozens of crew members and heavy equipment) charging across it. “It was really quite

extraordinary,” Ford says, referring to the engineering and the machinery involved.

“It required a real piece of civil engineering,” adds supervising art director Frank Walsh.

“We were introduced to the biggest bridge builder in Slovenia, the Primorje Group, and they

didn’t even bat an eye. They adapted their operation and approach to what we wanted, came

on board and were fantastic.”

One of Ford’s more whimsical designs for the film is Trufflehunter’s Den, an octagonal

structure built on wheels so that pieces of the set could be dismantled to allow intricate camera

angles. Director Adamson mounted a still-photo camera on a pole and used it to photograph

an actual badger’s den inside the hollow of an oak tree. Those photos inspired Ford’s set design

and Kerrie Brown’s set dressing, which added a touch of verisimilitude to Lewis’ imaginary

world.

At New Zealand’s Henderson Studios outside of Auckland, Ford’s crew built the Treasure

Chamber, a decaying, two-story subterranean cavern. For inspiration in creating the massive

treasure collection, Brown visited several museums in London and Paris and took photographs

of lavish gifts that had been presented to the nobility of various countries. “We wanted the

room to show that Peter and Edmund and Susan and Lucy, when they were kings and queens

in Narnia, had been presented with treasures from people from different lands,” she says.

Brown next scoured prop stores in Australia and New Zealand to rent chalices, urns, armor

and such, “but there wasn’t enough to fill up this huge room.” She added over 2,000 props

designed, molded and sculpted by her prop department. That busy department, headed by

Roland Stevenson, kept a staff of 35 working around the clock to manufacture over 7,000 prop

pieces for the entire film.

Costume designer Isis Mussenden engineered the creation of hundreds of original

wardrobe designs to clothe the Telmarines. Supervising a staff of over 70 artisans in both

Prague and Auckland, Mussenden drew upon two sources for her vivid designs—folk dress of

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Sardinia and the paintings of the Cretan artist and Byzantine Mannerist, El Greco. “There are

images in Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the book that stay with one forever,” Mussenden

recalls. “We never intended to ignore them. At the same time, I could not be bound by her

illustrations either, because we are designing three-dimensional costumes.

“I like to start with a color palette,” she

notes about the cool silver and gray

shadings of the Telmarine army. “We

already had the palette of the Narnians,

but we needed to create one for the

Telmarines. We didn’t want to use red and

gold. Those are Narnian colors. I

eventually chose several paintings of El

Greco. They are gruesome images, acidic

and cool, and were perfect for our needs.”

The next piece of the puzzle was taken

from a book about the Sardinian cultural dress she found on a shopping trip to Italy. “Sardinia

is a notorious rough-and-tough island which sported the new look I was after,” Mussenden

says. “Skirts, vests, wide belts, garters and jackets…no capes! We went for the Mediterranean

feel, which was a call by Andrew, to get ourselves in a different culture, a little different skin

tone, a little different flavor.”

She also visited the curator of one of the world’s foremost armor collections, Stuart Pyhrr

of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. A private tour and an afternoon in the archives

provided the spark for what would become the Telmarines’ battle gear.

“The scope of this film for us in the wardrobe department was ten times bigger than the

first one,” she exclaims. “Not only in the actual count of how many characters and extras for

whom we had to make costumes, but also the number of multiple costumes we had to make

to cover stunt doubles, photo doubles, actors’ growth and just wear and tear over six months

of shooting.”

“I designed and manufactured an army, which I have never done before,” Mussenden says.

“While it was fascinating and interesting, it was also more work than I could have ever

imagined.” Mussenden and associate designer Kimberly Adams, her longtime colleague and

friend, estimate they built 262 cast outfits, 3,722 individual items for the Telmarine army

(including helmets, masks, brigandines, underbrigs, shirts, pants, boots, gloves and grieves),

1,003 Telmarine villager stock items and 2,184 metal rivets per brigandine (for a total of

almost 1,000,000 rivets).

Mussenden closely collaborated with Weta’s Richard Taylor in the design of the weapons

and armor for both Telmarines and Narnians. “We also had a wonderful team of armorists in

the Czech Republic who fabricated everything for the Telmarines’ soldiers and lords using

Richard’s prototypes for the helmets and etching motifs,” she continues. “It was an interesting

contrast of old-world techniques and the high-tech new design world of Weta.”

“Miraz and his lords needed special weaponry,” Taylor says. “Weta created individual

swords, scabbards and sculpted faceplate helmets for the featured lords, including Glozelle,

who also has a beautiful dagger. Miraz himself has a special shield, sword, scabbard, full plate

armor and an ornate faceplate helmet.”

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Taylor says about the unique designs. “The idea that it’s a faceless army hidden behind these

masks, not showing their emotions or their faces, is captured in these very stylistic Italian

ceremonial masks they wear.”

Taylor felt strongly that the sword defines the Telmarine culture. For Miraz and his fierce

army of soldiers, he chose rapiers and falchions. “The rapier is a sophisticated weapon with a

very long blade and a basketed hilt. It is used in a much more refined and subtle motion than

the hack-and-slash motion of some of the weapons in the first film,” he says. “There’s a lot of

ceremony in these various pieces, as well as an ornamentation that illustrates the pomp and

ceremony of Miraz and his people.”

Taylor’s team manufactured 200 polearms in two different styles, 200 rapiers of varying

design, over 100 falchions, 250 shields and 55 crossbows, including the handsome and deadly

weapon wielded by Miraz’s queen, Prunaprismia. The Telmarine cavalry was equipped with

soft shields and stunt gear, which included stunt-safe horse faceplates for the warhorses and

unusual, sculpted faceplate helmets for the soldiers.

“The Telmarines were a very exciting race of people to design,” Taylor concludes. “They

are almost feudal. Their armor is resplendent and rich and beautiful, complemented by some

very fine weaponry. They are a very fierce fighting force, so quite an adversary for the

Narnian creatures.”

The world of Narnia was magically enriched through the collective talents and efforts of

the production’s visual effects artists, once again headed by Oscar® nominee Dean Wright.

Wright and longtime Adamson ally Wendy Rogers collaborated with a whole new group of

computer wizards for PRINCE CASPIAN.

Wright and Rogers drafted three of the industry’s top VFX designers to bring the world of

Narnia to the screen in this new chapter. Two London firms, The Moving Picture Company

and the Oscar®-winning Framestore-CFC,

joined the Oscar® winners from Weta

Digital in New Zealand to digitally

enhance the world of Narnia and envision

CGI creatures the River God, Jadis the

White Witch, Trufflehunter the faithful

badger, Aslan the Lion and the valiant,

swashbuckling rodent, Reepicheep.

As in the first film, virtually every

moment and scene in the film has been

touched by a VFX shot of some sort.

“This is one of the biggest visual effects films ever made,” claims Wright. “Andrew was bound

and determined to up the ante this time. We started off with at least twice the number of VFX

shots as ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.’”

For the castle-raid sequence, the movie’s epic action set piece, Wright partnered with two

colleagues—The Moving Picture Company’s Greg Butler, whose team oversaw the action and

character effects created for this sequence, and Guy Williams from Weta Digital in New

Zealand, who created the environments for the scene.

A virtual glossary of VFX practices were used to bring together all the elements to

complete the film’s first big action scene. Wright estimates that at least 300 VFX shots have

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Adamson also wanted to break the CGI

barrier by merging real people

realistically with the CG characters. Lucy

hugging Aslan, Susan riding on the back

of Glenstorm the centaur during their

escape from the castle raid and the

Pevensies and Caspian being carried into

the castle by gryphons all are prime

examples of the intricacy of the film’s

VFX work.

The decision to have gryphons carry

the children, Caspian and Trumpkin into the castle meant months of technical design, research

and development with the assistance of motion-control expert Ian Menzies. The VFX teams

all over the world had to work in perfect synchronicity in order to pull off this eye-popping

effect perfectly.

Animators at MPC in London plotted the path the children would fly and supervised the

intricate moves on-set in Prague. The digital files for the shots were sent to Weta Digital in

New Zealand, where “matchmakers” converted them for Alex Funke’s miniature crew to use

in a camera test on the 1/24th-scale castle model. Any changes required were then passed on

to the on-set animators, who incorporated the new camera moves into their animation before

finally sharing it with Menzies’ team. He took the information and fed it into the computer-

control “gryphon rigs” connected to the motion-control cameras to shoot the blue-screen

photography of the actors.

Months after the actual castle-raid sequence was

completed on location in Prague, Wright returned to New

Zealand where he and Funke, one of the industry’s best

miniature effects directors, shot footage on various

miniature versions of the castle built at different scales.

“Andrew is a big fan of trying to put whatever is real in

the frame,” Wright says. “Miniature sets make it seem

more organic within the frame and the story. When you

have a well-lit miniature, you again fall into this world of

believing everything you’re seeing, and that’s what we

wanted to do.”

“Having Andrew in the director’s chair is a godsend for

us,” Dean Wright says. “As visual effects professionals, we

want to be pushed. I think all the innovation that comes

from visual effects comes from a director pushing you

farther than you ever thought you could go.

“Andrew wanted to make this film bigger than the last, which meant throwing more

complicated stuff at VFX,” the effects supervisor continues. “When kudos go out for visual

effects, there should be an honorary place for the director. He’s the one that comes up with 95

percent of the vision of what you’re going to create. We’re there to help it and enhance it.”

Adamson says his goal was to give the audience something they hadn’t seen before. “And

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experimented with that we can take advantage of in the future. How do you do a centaur? How

do you do a minotaur? We’ve got a forest of trees that join the battles this time, and we’ve

generated trees that can move and wade through the earth. Now that we know how to do it, we

don’t have to spend that money again.”

The biggest challenge for the film, according to Johnson, is living up to the standards

created by “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” “People have seen the first movie and

enjoyed it throughout the world,” he points out. “Their expectations are even higher. So we

cannot be as good as ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.’ We have to be even better.”

Adamson says directing The Chronicles of Narnia films has been one of the most satisfying

projects of his career. “I have been given the opportunity to take a hugely important childhood

memory and show people something that had previously only existed in our collective

imaginings. I’ve approached these films by setting out to make movies inspired by my

memory of the books as an eight-year-old. You’re very lucky if that happens once in your

lifetime…but for me, it has happened again.”

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BEN BARNES’ (Prince Caspian) first Hollywood motion-

picture starring role is the title character of C.S. Lewis’ second

adventure in the land of Narnia.

Barnes is a veteran of the British stage. The 26-year-old U.K.

native studied drama at Kingston University and was a member of

the National Youth Music Theatre, where he debuted in “The Ballad

of Salomon Pavey” at the age of 15. His other credits with NYMT

include “The Ragged Child,” “Bugsy Malone” at the Queen’s

Theatre, “The Dreaming” and “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 50th

Birthday” at the Royal Albert Hall.

Most recently, Barnes triumphed onstage again, winning rave reviews for his role of the

charming, manipulative predator, Dakin, in Alan Bennett’s award-winning play, “The History

Boys,” which had its West End premiere at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre.

Other British stagings include “Sex, Chips & Rock n’ Roll” at the Royal Exchange in

Manchester, “Loving Ophelia” at the Pleasance Theatre, “Judi Dench & Friends” gala at the

Kingston Rose Theatre, as well as the workshop productions of “Blag” and “Talking to Mr.

Warner” at the Chocolate Factory.

His recent film roles include the lead character of Cobbakka, a Russian delinquent who

runs riot in London, in the independent feature “Bigga than Ben,” and a featured role in

Matthew Vaughn’s (“Layer Cake”) recent big-screen fantasy, “Stardust.” He also co-starred for

director Simon West (“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”) in his recent CW network telefilm, “Split

Decision” and just completed a co-starring role opposite Jessica Biel and Colin Firth in

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WILLIAM MOSELEY (Peter) reprises his role as Narnia’s

High King, who returns to the enchanted land with his three

siblings, not to replace Caspian but to help the young prince save

Narnia from tyranny under the reign of the evil Miraz. Prince

Caspian represents Peter’s final appearance in the series.

Moseley (now 21 years old) had his first motion-picture starring

role in the first “Narnia” film, for which he earned nominations for

the Saturn and Young Artists Awards.

The son of English cinematographer Peter Moseley, Moseley is

a native of Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds area of England. He

was first spotted by casting director Pippa Hall almost a decade ago (while in primary school)

when she was casting the 1998 English TV movie “Cider with Rosie,” based on Laurie Lee’s

memoirs about his childhood in the Cotswold Valley (coincidentally, the village next to the

young actor’s own). Hall kept her eye on the budding talent over the ensuing years, which led

to his first audition for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” 18

months before filming commenced in June 2004. Hall’s casting partner, Gail Stevens, cast him

in the 2002 SMG telefilm “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” his first professional role.

ANNA POPPLEWELL (Susan) returns to the land of Narnia

as older sister Susan, this time showing a softer, more emotional

side (unlike her pragmatic persona in the previous adventure). In the

midst of the forming battle, she finds herself falling for the young,

handsome Prince Caspian. The film represents the teenage Susan’s

final appearance in the series.

Popplewell made her professional acting debut in the 1998

television adaptation of du Maurier’s novel, “Frenchman’s Creek.”

She has appeared in such other feature films as “The Little

Vampire,” “Me Without You” and “Mansfield Park.” Her television

roles include “Dirty Tricks” and the BBC costume dramas “Love in a Cold Climate” and

“Daniel Deronda.” Prior to her role in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” the 19-yearold

beauty appeared as Vermeer’s eldest daughter in Peter Webber’s globally acclaimed drama,

“Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

Born and raised in London (the daughter of a barrister father and doctor mother), she is the

eldest of three siblings, all of whom have attended Allsorts, a children’s drama class. Her sister

Lulu appeared in Richard Curtis’ “Love, Actually,” and her brother Freddie was Michael

Darling in P.J. Hogan’s 2003 film, “Peter Pan.” Following her work on PRINCE CASPIAN,

Popplewell began her studies in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, where author

Lewis spent much of his academic career.

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SKANDAR KEYNES returns in the role of Edmund Pevensie,

the younger brother who, after betraying his siblings for his own

selfish gain during the Pevensie’s first journey through Narnia,

redeems himself by fighting on the side of good against evil.

Though still a boy, he has gained in wisdom and his courage has

strengthened as the four Pevensies embark on this new adventure to

assist the young Prince Caspian in overthrowing his evil uncle,

Miraz, who has usurped his throne.

Keynes is a 16-year-old actor who first appeared at the age of

nine in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Macbeth”

for TV. He immediately followed with another TV part as a Victorian waif in Jonathan Meade’s

docudrama for BB2, “The Victorians.”

In 2001, Keynes played the world-famous Italian racing driver Enzo Ferrari as a child in

Duemila Productions’biopic “Ferrari.” It was in 2004, shortly before the start of filming, that

Keynes was cast as Edmund Pevensie in “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and

the Wardrobe.”

 

GEORGIE HENLEY (Lucy) returns as the youngest of the

Pevensie siblings. With her memory of Aslan resonating strongly

with her, Lucy remains a child at heart in the second story. It is her

gift for insight, understanding and relentless faith that helps her

family and companions overcome Miraz’s reign and restore Narnia

to its former glory.

Henley made her professional acting debut in “The Lion, the

Witch and the Wardrobe.” The 12-year-old from Ilkley, W. Yorkshire,

in the north of England, was already a member of a local drama club

called Upstagers, where she was discovered by casting director

Pippa Hall in a countrywide casting call for the film launched in June 2003. Henley won the

role over 2,000 other hopefuls.

For her work in the first film, Henley collected numerous awards and nominations from

organizations around the world. She won the Phoenix Film Critics Award (Best Performance

by a Youth in a Support or Lead Role, Female), the Michael Eliot Trust Award (Child Star of

the Year), the Total Film Award (the Dakota Fanning prize for Best Child Actor) and theYoung

Artists Award (Best Performance/Feature Film—ages ten and under).

Additionally, Henley earned nominations as Best Young Actress from the Broadcast Film

Critics Association, Most Promising Newcomer for the United Kingdom’s Empire Awards,

Best Breakthrough Performance from the Online Film Critics Society and Best Newcomer

from the Chicago Film Critics Circle.

Since her debut in the first “Narnia” film, Henley played the young Jane Eyre in last year’s

BBC production of “Jane Eyre.”

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PETER DINKLAGE (Trumpkin the Red Dwarf) is well known

to movie audiences as Finbar McBride, the despondent loner who

moves into an abandoned train depot after the unexpected death of

a friend, in Thomas McCarthy’s acclaimed comedy-drama, “The

Station Agent.” For his performance in the endearing film, Dinklage

was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award, the Screen Actors

Guild Award (as Best Actor and as part of the film’s Best Ensemble

Cast) and the Online Film Critics Association Award.

Dinklage, a New Jersey native, studied his craft at Vermont’s

Bennington College before furthering his studies at the Royal

Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the Welsh School of Music and Drama in Wales.

He made his film debut in Tom DiCillo’s 1995 independent comedy, “Living in Oblivion.”

He followed with appearances in John Hamberg’s “Safe Men” (opposite Sam Rockwell, Steve

Zahn and Paul Giamatti), Michel Gondry’s “Human Nature” (written by future Oscar® winner

Charlie Kaufman), Alexandre Rockwell’s “13 Moons” (reuniting with co-star Steve Buscemi)

and the romantic comedies “Never Again” and “Just a Kiss” before triumphing in “The Station

Agent,” which won acclaim at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Since that auspicious big-screen starring debut, Dinklage has worked on over two dozen

projects, most notably in Jon Favreau’s popular holiday classic, “Elf ”; Sidney Lumet’s

courtroom drama, “Find Me Guilty”; the acclaimed FX series, “Nip/Tuck”; “Lassie” opposite

Peter O’Toole; “Tiptoes” with Gary Oldman; “The Baxter”; and the recently completed

features “Penelope” (with Reese Witherspoon), “Death at a Funeral” (directed by Frank Oz),

“3/5 of a Man” and “Underdog.”

On the small screen, he guest-starred on “Third Watch,” “I’m with Her,” “Life as We Know

It” and co-starred opposite Brent Spiner on the CBS series “Threshold.”

Dinklage’s stage work includes the title role in The Public Theatre’s production of “Richard

III,” “I Wanna Be Adored,” “Hollywood,” “Imperfect Love” and Charles Sturridge’s

production of Beckett’s “Endgame” at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and The Barbican Theatre

in London. Following his work on the film, he returned to the stage at the Acorn Theatre’s

“Things We Want,” which marked the Off-Broadway directorial debut of actor Ethan Hawke.

WARWICK DAVIS’ (Nikabrik the Black Dwarf) roles have

taken the veteran actor from his roots in Surrey, England, to galaxies

far, far away, to the magical world of J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts, and

to C.S. Lewis’ fantastical land of Narnia in a career spanning over

two decades.

Davis began his career purely by chance as a boy in 1981. His

grandmother heard a radio announcement calling for people under

four feet tall to appear in the new “Star Wars” film, “Return of the

Jedi.” Originally cast as a background player, Davis’ gestures were

so characteristic of George Lucas’ vision of an Ewok that he was

recast as Wicket, who became one of the film’s lead creature characters. After the huge success

of the third “Star Wars” epic, Lucas made two Ewok movies for ABC television, “The Ewok

Adventure” and “Ewoks: Battle for Endor,” with Davis reprising his role as Wicket in both

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Two years later, the 3'6" talent was called to Elstree Studios in London for a meeting with

producer George Lucas and director Ron Howard about a new project called “Willow,” with

the title role written specifically with the actor in mind. The project, in which he co-starred

alongside Val Kilmer, allowed Davis to showcase his acting talent beyond the portrayal of

strange creatures hidden behind special makeup, earning him a Saturn Award nomination from

the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

Following that big-screen success, the teenage Davis was immediately back in front of the

camera, this time for the small screen, in yet another fantasy epic. He was cast in two series

for the BBC—playing the swashbuckling mouse, Reepicheep, in the Narnian adventure

“Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” then returning to C.S. Lewis’ wondrous

world as Glimfeather the Owl in “The Silver Chair.” He next followed with his first villainous

role in the cult horror classic, “Leprechaun,” whose success spawned no less than five sequels

over the years, with Davis returning to the title role in each.

In 1997, he returned to filmmaker Lucas’ famous galaxy far, far away in “Star Wars:

Episode I—The Phantom Menace,” in which he essayed three roles in the film. In addition to

the characters of Wald and Weazel, he also played the famous Jedi Master, Yoda, for scenes

where the character was required to walk.

In 2001, the literary phenomenon Harry Potter became a cinematic one, with Davis playing

two characters (Professor Flitwick and the Goblin Bank Teller) in “Harry Potter and the

Sorcerer’s Stone” for director Chris Columbus. He reprised the role of Flitwick in the next four

sequels, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (again for Columbus), “Harry Potter and

the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” “Harry Potter and the Order

of the Phoenix” and the sixth in the series, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.”

The career next launched him back into space, this time hitching a ride as Marvin the

Paranoid Android in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the big-screen adaptation of

Douglas Adams’ beloved novel. He also recently played the supporting role of Oberon, the

jazz club MC who introduces singer Ray Charles to the performing world in Taylor Hackford’s

Oscar®-winning “Ray.”

His other credits over the years include “Labyrinth” (alongside David Bowie), the NBC

telefilm “Gulliver’s Travels (co-starring opposite Ted Danson), “Prince Valiant,” “A Very

Unlucky Leprechaun,” “The New Adventures of Pinocchio,” “The White Pony,” the

groundbreaking NBC miniseries “The 10th Kingdom,” the BBC sitcom “The Fitz,” the ABC

telefilm “Snow White,” the gangster caper “Al’s Lads” and two BBC productions, “Dr.

Terrible’s House of Horrible” and “Murder Rooms: The Kingdom of Bones.” He recently

completed a role in “Small Town Folk,” played himself in an episode of Ricky Gervais’ wicked

industry satire, “Extras,” and will next write, produce and star in the action film “Agent One-

Half.”

As well as the many roles on the big and small screen, Davis has trodden the boards of

theaters throughout the United Kingdom. In addition to numerous appearances in “Snow

White,” he has appeared as Smee in “Peter Pan” and as the Genie in “Aladdin.”

Davis also maintains his own website—www.warwickdavis.co.uk.

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SERGIO CASTELLITTO (King Miraz) has been called “one

of the most popular Italian actors for international audiences since

the heady days of Mastroianni and Gassman.” In addition to his

lengthy acting career encompassing work in films, in television and

on the Italian stage, Castellitto is also a noted writer-director, with

his most recent directorial achievement, “Don’t Move,” in which he

starred opposite Penelope Cruz, triumphing as one of Italy’s biggest

critical and commercial successes of 2004.

Castellitto and Cruz won Italy’s David di Donatello honors for

their respective leading performances, with the film (based on the

Strega-winning and bestselling novel by his wife, the acclaimed Italian writer Margaret

Mazzantini) earning nine other nominations, including Best Film and writing and director

nods for Castellitto. The film was also showcased in 2004 as part of a retrospective of the

actor-director’s work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Born in Rome, Castellitto graduated from the Silvio D’Amico National Academy of

Dramatic Art in 1978. He began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with

Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such

as “La Madre” by Brecht, “Merchant of Venice” and “Candelaio” by Giordano Bruno. He next

starred at the Teatro di Genova in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and

Jean in Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. Over the ensuing

years, he also starred in such theatrical productions as “L’Infelicita Senza Desideri” and

“Piccoli Equivoci” at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, as well as “Barefoot in the Park”

by Neil Simon and “Zorro,” a monologue written for him by his wife, Margaret. He also

directed her in her own original comedy, “Manola.”

While continuing a successful career on the stage, the actor made his film debut in 1982

alongside Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée in “L’Armata ritorna”

(“The General of the Dead Army”), directed by Luciano Tovoli, then followed the next year

with Stefania Sandrelli in the feature “Il Momento magico” (“Magic Moments”).

He continued working in Italian cinema with some of the industry’s finest young auteur

directors, such as Marco Colli (“Giovanni Senzapensieri”) and Felice Farina (“Sembra Morto

Ma E’ Solo Svenutoi”), for which Castellitto also served as the subject and screenwriter. In

1986, he co-starred with Vittorio Gassman and Fanny Ardant in Ettore Scola’s epic saga, “La

Famiglia” (“The Family”), which earned an Oscar® nomination as Best Foreign Film and won

five David di Donatello awards, including Best Film.

He next reunited with actress Fanny Ardant in Margarethe von Trotta’s “Paura e amore”

(“Love and Fear”), then co-starred alongside Jean Reno and Rosanna Arquette in Luc Besson’s

acclaimed drama “Le Grand Bleu” (“The Big Blue”), which earned a Cesar nomination as

Best Film. He won his very first David di Donatello prize (as Best Supporting Actor) for his

role alongside Gian Maria Volonte in “Tre colonne in cronaca.”

As a new decade approached, Castellitto graduated to leading roles in the film adaptation

of Claudio Bigagli’s play “Piccoli Equivoci” (reprising his stage role of Paolo), “La Carne”

(“The Flesh”), Mario Monicelli’s “Rossini! Rossini!,” Giuseppe Tornatore’s “L’Uomo delle

stelle” (“The Star Maker,” a Best Foreign Film Oscar® nominee in 1996, for which he won the

Nastro d’Argento Critics Award) and Francesca Archibugi’s “Il Grande Cocomero” (“The

Great Pumpkin”), winning his second David di Donatello award and first as Best Actor. As the

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1990s grew to a close, the actor turned his talents to directing his first feature, “Libero Burro,”

also co-writing the screenplay with his wife, Margaret Mazzantini, his co-star in the film. The

production earned Best Film honors from the Los Angeles Italian Film Awards.

In addition to his busy career in Italy, Castellitto spent much time in Paris, where his

popularity soared in such films as “Alberto Express” and “Ne Quittez Pas” by Arthur Joffe,

Laetitia Masson’s “A’Vendre” and “Le Cri De La Soie” by Yvon Marciano.

In 2001, he reteamed with director Ettore Scola in his acclaimed drama, “Concorrenza

sleale” (“Unfair Competition”), then gained international acclaim as Ugo, the artistic director

of an Italian theater troupe visiting Paris, in Jacques Rivette’s “Va savoir.” He next starred as

the temperamental chef in the acclaimed international comedy “Bella Martha” (“Mostly

Martha,” Best Actor—European Film Award), then triumphed again in the bittersweet Italian

comedy “Caterina va in città” (“Caterina in the Big City”), winning his second Nastro

d’Argento Critics Award. He earned another Donatello nomination (his third) for Marco

Bellocchio’s award-winning drama “L’Ora di religione” (“My Mother’s Smile”). He most

recently reunited with Bellocchio in “Il registra dei matrimoni” (“The Wedding Director”) and

also starred in the Italian drama “La Stella che non c’E” (“The Missing Star”), directed by

Gianni Amelio, and provided one of the voices for the French version of “Arthur and the

Invisibles.” He is the only Italian actor to star in the French homage to Paris, “Paris Je

T’Aime,” in an episode directed by Isabel Coixet.

His television work includes the miniseries “Cinema” with Alain Delon, the great Italian

biopics “Don Milani-Il Priore di Barbiana,” “Il Grande Fausto” (the life of Fausto Coppi),

Carlo Carlei’s “Padre Pio” and “Enzo Ferrari,” “Victoire ou la vie des femmes” directed by

Nadine Trintignant and two projects he also co-wrote, “Il Commissario Maigret: L’ombra

cinese” and “Il commissario Maigret: La trappola di Maigret,” both starring Margherita Buy.

His most recent TV project was “O’Professore,” written by Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia,

director Maurizio Zaccaro.

In addition to co-writing a new film (which he will also direct) with wife Margaret

Mazzantini, Castellitto will also return to the theater to direct John Patrick Shanley’s award-

winning play “Doubt.”

PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO (General Glozelle) most

recently co-starred as Christopher Columbus in the megahit

American comedy “Night at the Museum.”

A native of Rome, Italy, Favino graduated from the Silvio

d’Amico National Drama Academy before honing his craft at the

Teatro di Roma under the direction of Luca Ronconi. He started his

career in the theater (directed by such renowned Italian artists as

Ronconi and Gigi Proietti) before making his film debut in the 1995

boxing drama “Pugili,” directed by Lino Capolicchio.

Over the past decade, Favino has showcased his versatility in

both drama and comedy in films directed by a host of new, young Italian filmmakers,

including Luigi Magni (“La Carbonara”), Marco Bellocchio (“Il Principe di Homburg,” a

Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or nominee), Gabriele Muccino (“L’Ultimo bacio,” Audience

Award, 2002 Sundance Film Festival; David di Donatello nominee, Best Film), Giuseppe

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Amelio (“Le Chiavi di casa,” Pasinetti Award, 2004 Venice Film Festival) and Michele Placido

(“Romanzo criminale”). He followed his work on the Narnia film with a featured role in Spike

Lee’s WWII drama, “Miracle at St. Anna.”

He won the David di Donatello Award for his supporting turn as The Lebanese, a ruthless

gangster bent on conquering Rome’s crime world, in “Romanzo criminale,” which received 14

total nominations, including one for Best Film. Favino also won the Nastro d’Argento Award

as Best Actor for his performance and earned another nomination as Best Supporting Actor

for his work in “Le chiavi di casa.” He collected his first nomination for Italy’s prestigious

Donatello prize for his supporting role of a World War II soldier fighting in Africa in “El

Alamein,” directed by Enzo Monteleone.

DAMIÁN ALCÁZAR (Lord Sopespian) is one of Mexico’s

most prominent acting talents. In addition to his award-winning

career in film and television, Alcázar is also a dedicated acting

teacher and founding member of the Veracruzano Theatre Forum at

Veracruzana University (where he served on the faculty) and the

Center for Experimental Theatre.

A native of Jiquilpan, Michoacán, on Mexico’s west coast,

Alcázar has starred in numerous Mexican films, including “B.C., El

Limite del Tiempo,” “El Anzuelo,” “Katuwira,” “Tres Minutos en la

Oscuridad,” “Dos crímenes” (Best Actor, Cartagena Film Festival),

“No Juegues con el Amor,” Arturo Ripstein’s “La Mujer del Puerto,” “Abuelito de Batman,”

“La Leyenda de una Mascara,” “Un Mundo Maravilloso” (Best Actor, Los Angeles Latino

Film Festival), “La Ciudad al Desnudo,” John Sayles’ Spanish-language drama “Men with

Guns” and Sebastian Cordero’s “Crónicas,” for which he won his seventh Ariel Award

(Mexico’s equivalent of the Oscar®) and Best Actor honors at the Cartegna and San Sebastian

International Film Festivals.

He was also awarded Ariel prizes for “Las Vueltas del citrillo” (Best Actor, 2006; also Best

Actor, La Havanna, Cuba), “El crimen del padre Amaro” (Best Supporting Actor, 2002; also

Best Actor, Muestra Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara), “La Ley de Herodes” (Best Actor,

1999; also Best Actor, Valladolid, Spain), “Baja, California: El limite del tiempo” (Best Actor,

1998), “El Anzuelo” (Best Supporting Actor, 1996) and “Lolo” (Best Supporting Actor,

1994). He collected three additional nominations for Mexico’s prestigious acting honor,

including “Dos crimines” (1995), “Pachito Rex: Me voy pero no del todo” (2001) and “La

Habitacion azul” (2002). He also won the Best Actor honor at the Miami International Film

Festival for “Crónicas.”

He has also co-starred in such English-language films as John Duigan’s “Romero,” Alex

Cox’s “Highway Patrolman,” Bruce Bereford’s HBO feature “And Starring Pancho Villa as

Himself,” Cruz Angeles’ upcoming “Don’t Let Me Drown” and the TV movie “Nurses on the

Line: The Crash of Flight 7.”

Upcoming projects include “El Camino del diablo,” “El Viaje de Teo,” “Mordidas,”

“Satanás” and “El Soldado Perez.”

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VINCENT GRASS (Doctor Cornelius) is a native of Belgium

who began his acting studies as a boy growing up in Brussels. Born

into a classically trained musical family (his father was a conductor,

his mother a classical singer), Grass opted to pursue his love of

acting, attending the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, where he

made his stage debut in a dozen or so plays. Because of his musical

heritage, he also fronted a local cover band called Crash, where he

learned to speak English by memorizing the lyrics to some of the

most popular rock songs of the 1960s.

After completing his studies in Brussels, he headed to England,

where he honed his craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA),

starring in several LAMDA Theatre Club productions, including “The Plain Dealer,” directed

by Norman Ayrton.

Grass maintains a very busy career (in both English and French) on the stage, in television

and in motion pictures from his home base in Paris, where he has been living for 30 years. He

has worked for such directors as Roland Joffe (“Vatel”), Mike Binder (“Four Play”), Agneska

Holland (“To Kill a Priest,” the French telefilm “Largo Desolato”), Jacques Demy (“Lady

Oscar”) and Peter Greenaway (“The Tulse Luper Suitcases II”).

His list of French movie credits includes Valerie Lemercier’s “Palais Royal,” Chris Nahon’s

“Empire of the Wolves” (“L’Empire des loups”), Gerard Corbiau’s “The King Is Dancing”

(“Le Roi danse”), Claude Berri’s “Uranus,” Michel Blanc’s “Dead Tired” (“Grosse fatigue”),

Catherine Corsini’s “Les Amoureux,” the Dardenne’s “Je Pense a vous,” Bertrand Blier’s

“Thank You Life” (“Merci la vie”) and Alain Berliner’s “My Life in Pink” (“Ma Vie en rose,”

a film-festival favorite in 1997 and winner of the Golden Globe® as Best Foreign Film). He

has also appeared in several short films, most notably “La Carte postale,” directed by Vivian

Goffette, which earned an Oscar® nomination in 1999 as Best Live Action Short. Following

his role in Narnia, he joined actress Isabelle Huppert in Rithy Panh’s film “Un barrage contre

le Pacifique” on location in Cambodia.

For French television, Grass has appeared in dozens of series and telefilms, including

“David Nolande,” “Louis La Brocante,” “Police District,” “Le Frère Irlandais,” “Julie

Lescaut,” “Theo et Marie,” “L’Enfant de L’Absente,” “Jeunesse sans Dieu,” “Les Vacances de

Maigret” and “Maigret ches les Flamands,” “Les Colonnes du ciel” and “Saint-Germain ou La

négociation.” His English-language TV projects encompass Yves Simoneau’s “Napoleon,” the

Emmy® Award-winning “Horatio Hornblower,” “Sharpe’s Enemy,” “Memories of Midnight,”

“Murder, Inc.” and “Night of the Fox.”

On the Paris stage, Grass has starred in three plays mounted at the Theatre Silvia

Montfort—“Masterclass” (“Staline Melodie”), “La Question D’Argent” and Miller’s “Death

of a Salesman.” He appeared in Genet’s “High Surveillance” at the Theatre Le Lucernaire and

has appeared in many productions staged throughout Belgium, including “Mistero Buffo” at

the Brussels National Opera, Kafka’s “The Castle” on a national tour, “Murder in the

Cathedral” at the Flobecq Festival, Moliere’s “The Bourgeois Gentilhomme” at the National

Theatre, Ionesco’s “The Killer” (“Tueur sans gages”) at Compagnie de Bruxelles, Hampton’s

“Total Eclipse” (“Les Fils du Soleil”) at the Rideau de Bruxelles, Chekov’s “The Seagull” at

the Theatre Royal de Namur and “The Knack, or How to Get It” at the Waltra Theatre in

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He also enjoys a lucrative voice-over career in which he has dubbed the French dialogue

for such projects as “The Matrix” (Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith), “Lord of the Rings” trilogy

(John Rhys-Davies’ Gimli and Treebeard), Peter Firth (the British TV series “Spooks”) and

George Miller’s recent Oscar®-winning animated feature, “Happy Feet” (again, Hugo

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ALICIA BORRACHERO (Queen Prunaprismia), a Madrid

native, earned her B.A. in Drama from Nazareth University in

Rochester, New York. She returned to her homeland to pursue her

career, which encompasses work in films, television and the theater.

On the big screen, she most recently completed a co-starring

role in Mike Newell’s “Love in the Time of Cholera,” based on the

novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She appeared in Peter Yates’

Hallmark Entertainment adventure “Don Quixote” and was named

Best Actress at the Benaldamena Film Festival for Fidel Cordero’s

drama “The Fabulous Story of Diego Marin” (“La Fabulosa historia

de Diego Marin”).

Other motion-picture credits include the starring role in “Vidas pequeñas,” “Things I

Forgot to Remember” (“Cosas que olvidé recordar”), “Death in Granada” (“Muerte en

Granada”), “Blind Blood,” “The Killer Tongue” (“La lenga asesina”), “Three Words” (“Tres

Palabras”) and “Shooting Elizabeth.”

Her television work includes such programs and specials as “Tres Años en el Paraiso,” “Las

Hijas de Mohamed,” “Un Lugar en el Mundo,” “Comedian’s Club” (for Canal Plus+), “7

Vidas,” “Medico de Familia,” “El Rinoceronte,” “Hermanos de Leche,” “Farmacia de

Guardia,” the miniseries “Delantero,” “Kinsey II” (for BBC Television) and “Oxigeno.”

On the Spanish stage, her credits include Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” (Cope Best Actress

Award), Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Cambio de Marea,” Beth Henley’s

“Crimes of the Heart,” “Untimely Death,” “Pack of Lies,” “The Lover,” the musical “The

Robber Bridegroom” and Wilder’s “Our Town.”

Borrachero starred in two of Spain’s most popular television series—“Periodistas,” the

long-running drama set inside the newsroom of a major metropolitan newspaper, and

“Hospital Central,” the current weekly serial (equates to a Spanish-language version of “ER”)

in which she plays Dr. Cruz Gándara.

For her work on both series, Borrachero won the Spanish Actors Guild prize for Lead

Performance in “Periodistas” and was nominated in the same category for “Hospital Central.”

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SHANE RANGI (Asterius the Minotaur) returns to the world of

Narnia after portraying General Otmin, the fierce minotaur and

leader of the White Witch’s army, in “The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe.”

Rangi is well known among fantasy-film enthusiasts for his role

of the Witch King of Angmar in Peter Jackson’s Oscar®-winning

“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” He returned

in the series’ second chapter, “The Two Towers,” as the Easterling

NCO and portrayed a Harad Leader in “Return of the King.” In

addition to his character roles, Rangi also doubled for Lawrence

Makaore as Gothmog and the Black Witch King and for Paul Norell as the King of the Dead,

not to mention was also a utility stunt performer in all three titles of Jackson’s landmark movie

trilogy.

When not portraying specific characters before the cameras, the New Zealander keeps busy

as a stuntman based out of Wellington. His stunt credits include Jackson’s “King Kong,” “X-

Men: The Last Stand,” Vincent Ward’s “River Queen,” Jay Russell’s family film “The Water

Horse” and Patrick Tatopoulos’ up-and-coming fantasy film “Underworld 3: The Rise of the

Lycans.”

Between film assignments, Rangi can be found at Weta Digital, which is Peter Jackson,

Jamie Selkirk and Richard Taylor’s award-winning VFX house in New Zealand that creates a

wide variety of computer-graphic images for film, television and game projects.

Rangi was raised in New Zealand’s North Island but hails from the east-coast village of Tiki

Tiki, near Gisborne. The imposing, 6'4" Maori began his performing career during his

secondary school years, first with a local operatic company before winning entry into the New

Zealand Drama School, one of only twelve applicants awarded a position out of 600 potential

candidates. He began his professional career doing local theater before breaking into the

feature-film arena.

CORNELL S. JOHN (Glenstorm the Centaur) was born in

Birmingham, England. He maintains a very high profile on the

British stage, where he has triumphed in such musical productions

as “The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess” (directed by Sir Trevor Nunn),

“Les Misérables,” “The Full Monty” and Disney’s “The Lion King,”

in which he originated the West End role of King Musafa (the

character vocalized in the 1994 animated classic by James Earl

Jones) for director Julie Taymor.

His lengthy list of theater credits also includes Sondheim’s

“Pacific Overtures,” “You Don’t Kiss,” Satan in the European tour

of Steven Berkoff’s “Messiah,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” “Brother to

Brother,” “Rum Shop Opera,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Heavenly Bodies,” Medgar Evers in

“JFK,” the Japan/UK tour of “Carmen Jones” (directed by Simon Callow), “Dutchman,”

“Buddy,” “Kiss Me, Kate,” Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti,” Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and

Men,” “Bad Boy Johnny,” “Scratches,” “Damn Yankees” and Kander and Ebb’s “Chicago.” He

credits his role as Oscar Lindquist, the shy tax accountant in the West End production of

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Television credits include the popular BBC series “EastEnders,” “Holby City,” “Doctors,”

“The Block,” “‘Orrible, Maise Raine” and “3 Minute Heroes,” as well as “Revolver,” “Final

Passage,” “The Farm” on C4, “Lenny Henry in Pieces,” “The Knock,” “Thief Takers,” “The

Milkman” and ITV’s “The Upper Hand.” His roles on the big screen include “Kidulthood”

and the upcoming sequel, “Adulthood,” “Rottweiler,” “Red Mercury,” “Hush Your Mouth” and

“Rage.”

John has enjoyed recent success making his directorial debut with the plays “Dutchman”

and “Birth of a Blues” for Bush Boy Productions in London and is blessed with the continued

love and support of Jane Elizabeth and his daughter, Kaiya.

LIAM NEESON (voice of Aslan the Lion) has become one of the leading international

motion-picture actors today. Whether it is his Academy Award®-nominated role of Oskar

Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s highly acclaimed “Schindler’s List” (1993), his award-winning

portrayal of legendary Irish Republican hero in “Michael Collins” (1996) or his role as

controversial sex therapist Alfred Kinsey in the critically acclaimed “Kinsey” (2004), Neeson

continues to display an acting range matched by few.

In 2007, Neeson completed production on Pierre Morel’s “Taken,” which is due out in the

U.S. later this year. Neeson stars as an ex-soldier trying to track down the Albanian slave

masters who have kidnapped his daughter. Currently, Neeson is filming Richard Eyre’s “The

Other Man” opposite Laura Linney, and he recently completed production on THE

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN, where he reprised his role as the voice of

the lion, Aslan, in the sequel to the 2005 box-office success “The Chronicles of Narnia: The

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

In 2006, Neeson graced the screen in the classic revenge drama “Seraphim Falls” opposite

Pierce Brosnan. In 2005, he appeared in Ridley Scott’s crusades epic “Kingdom of Heaven.”

He also co-starred that year in “Batman Begins,” directed by Christopher Nolan.

Neeson’s portrayal of Alfred Kinsey in Bill Condon’s “Kinsey,” co-starring Laura Linney,

garnered him a Best Actor award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Prior to that,

Neeson co-starred with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Keira Knightley in the Working

Title film “Love Actually” (2003), written and directed by Richard Curtis.

Neeson returned to Broadway in 2002, co-starring with his friend Laura Linney in Arthur

Miller’s classic “The Crucible.” Mr. Neeson’s performance as John Proctor earned both him

and Linney a Tony® award nomination.

In 2001, he starred opposite Harrison Ford in the true story of Russia’s nuclear submarine

tragedy entitled “K-19: The Widowmaker” and starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the black

comedy “Gun Shy” (2000).

Neeson starred in the box-office phenomenon “Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom

Menace” (1999) in the role of Qui-Gon Jinn, the Master Jedi Knight who bestows his Forceful

wisdom upon Obi-Wan Kenobi and the young Anakin Skywalker. In the same year, he

starred opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jan De Bont’s “The Haunting” (1999).

In addition, he starred in the screen adaptation of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables” in the

role of Jean Valjean, co-starring Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes. Also that

year, Neeson played Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s new play, “The Judas Kiss,” which opened

in London’s West End and subsequently on Broadway.

Neeson starred in the title role in Neil Jordan’s “Michael Collins” (1996) for which he

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received Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival, a Golden Globe® Best Actor

nomination and London’s prestigious Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. The film also

received the highest honor in Venice—The Golden Lion Award.

It was in 1993 when Neeson received worldwide attention for his starring role in the

Academy Award®-winning film “Schindler’s List.” In addition to winning an Academy Award®

nomination for Best Actor, he was nominated for a Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award.

The Irish-born actor had originally sought a career as a teacher after attending Queens

University, Belfast, and majoring in physics, computer science and math. Neeson set teaching

aside and, in 1976, joined the prestigious Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast (“The best training

any actor could have”), making his professional acting debut in Joseph Plunkett’s “The Risen

People.” After two years with the Lyric Players, he joined the famed National Theatre of

Ireland, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Neeson appeared in the Abbey Theatre Festival’s

production of Brian Friel’s “Translations” and a production of Sean O’Casey’s “The Plough

and the Stars” for the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England, where he received a

Best Actor Award.

KEN STOTT (voice of Trufflehunter) is a triple threat in the English performance world,

an Olivier Award-winning veteran of the British stage, television and films.

Born in Edinburgh in 1955, Stott was educated at George Heriot’s School, where his father

was Dean of the English Department. He next trained at Mountview Theatre School and began

his acting career at the age of 18 at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Ireland.

He spent the next ten years doing repertory (in places like Belfast, Ipswich, Manchester and

Plymouth) before landing his first lead role in “Through the Leaves” at the Traverse Theatre in

Edinburgh. When the play transferred to London, the 30-year-old actor began attracting notice

and, a year later, was performing at the Royal National Theatre. Over the next few years, the Scot

established his reputation as one of Britain’s finest performers, garnering numerous nominations

and awards, including an Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actor for “Broken Glass” in 1994.

He earned a second nomination for “The Recruiting Officer” at the National Theatre.

His early stage work includes The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of “Henry V,”

“Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” before winning larger roles in

Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo,” Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” and Arthur Miller’s

“Death of a Salesman,” in which he starred as Willy Loman opposite Jude Law as his son,

Happy.

But it was his part in the initial cast of the West End hit “Art” (earning his third Olivier

nomination) with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay at Wyndham’s that really brought him into

the limelight. With his stage career on hold while winning acclaim on British television in the

late 1990s, he returned to the West End boards in 2001 in Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” at the

Almeida Theatre in King’s Cross. More recently, he starred opposite Richard Griffiths and

John Hurt in the drama “Heroes,” returning to the Wyndham’s in London’s West End in 2006.

While working to establish his name in the repertory theater world, Stott debuted on

English TV with a role in “The Secret Army” in 1977. Although small roles ensued over the

next two decades in a variety of programs like “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and Dennis Potter’s “The

Singing Detective” on the BBC, he won acclaim as the alcoholic hospital deejay in the BBC

black-comedy miniseries “Taking Over the Asylum,” which won the BAFTA award as Best

Drama Series.

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He became a familiar face on the BBC in such series and programs as “Mug’s Game,”

“Rhodes,” “Stone, Scissors, Paper,” “Messiah,” “Vicious Circle” and a mainstay on ITV in the

five seasons of “The Vice,” starring as Det. Inspector Pat Chappel (BAFTA-nominated for his

work in 1999). That show, one of the U.K.’s most popular series, drew an estimated 10 million

viewers weekly. He most recently won praise over two seasons in the title role as Scotland’s

favorite anti-hero cop in another ITV series, “Rebus.”

While establishing his profile on the stage and television, Stott also found his way into

motion pictures, making a dramatic debut in a brief (30-second) appearance as a 16th-century

Spaniard in 1983’s “Being Human.” He later had supporting roles in a wide variety of films,

from the Oscar®-winning short film “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” (with Richard E.

Grant) to the musical spectacle “A Beggar’s Opera.”

He won his first major film role as the alcoholic coach Ike Weir in Jim Sheridan’s “The

Boxer” (after co-star Daniel Day-Lewis saw his performance onstage in “Art” and suggested

him for the part) and, two years later, starred in his first lead role opposite Billy Connolly in

the dark thriller “The Debt Collector,” a part written expressly for him. He played the sadistic

Chance in Jake Scott’s “Plunkett & Macleane” (alongside Liv Tyler, Robert Carlyle and Jonny

Lee Miller) and also co-starred in such motion pictures as Danny Boyle’s “Shallow Grave,”

Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur,” Lasse Hallstrom’s “Casanova,” Mike Hodges’ “I’ll Sleep

When I’m Dead” and Bill Forsyth’s “Being Human.”

Stott’s most recent screen work includes his role as Zvi Rafiah in Mike Nichol’s film

“Charlie Wilson’s War,” and he is currently starring in Yazmina Reza’s new play “God of

Carnage” at the Gielgud Theatre, with Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig and Janet McTeer.

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ANDREW ADAMSON (director/co-producer/co-screenwriter) returns to the land of

Narnia after directing and co-writing the extraordinarily successful “The Chronicles of

Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” with THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:

PRINCE CASPIAN. He has quickly made a name for himself as a forerunner in the art of

directing and producing visual effects, as well as a unique skill for writing fantasy and

adventure, creating films that appeal to filmgoers of all ages and is taking his next turn on a

similarly epic story.

Based on the second novel in C.S. Lewis’ children’s fantasy franchise, The Chronicles of

Narnia, PRINCE CASPIAN is the second film from the Walt Disney Pictures and Walden

Media series. In this film, the Pevensie siblings are pulled back into the land of Narnia, where

1,000 years have passed since they left. The children are once again enlisted to join the

colorful creatures of Narnia in combating an evil villain who prevents the rightful prince from

ruling the land. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN is scheduled to be

released in theaters on May 16, 2008.

Adamson’s directorial debut with 2001’s “Shrek” made history winning the first Academy

Award® ever presented for Best Animated Feature. Three years later, he followed up that

incredible success with the triumphant sequel, “Shrek 2,” a film he both directed and co-wrote

the screenplay for. “Shrek 2” went on to become the highest-earning animated feature film to

date in Hollywood. It earned Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Feature and for

Best Original Song.

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Following those great accomplishments, Adamson directed and co-wrote his first live-

action feature, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” which, in

addition to its commercial success, won the Academy Award® for Best Makeup and collected

two additional nominations for Visual Effects and Sound. Most recently, he served as

executive producer on “Shrek the Third.”

Adamson began his career in computer graphics 20 years ago in his native New Zealand,

working as a computer animator and a design director and animator. He first joined

PDI/DreamWorks (formerly Pacific Design Graphics) in 1991 as a visual effects supervisor

on films including “Angels in the Outfield” and “Double Dragon.” He has also worked on the

visual effects for such films as “True Lies,” “Heart and Souls” and Barry Levinson’s “Toys.”

Adamson served as a key member of PDI/DreamWorks’ commercial division on numerous

award-winning spots, including Converse’s “Planet Kevin,” Dow’s “Scrubbing Bubbles

Greatest Show” and Miller Genuine Draft’s “Juke Box.” Apart from PDI/DreamWorks,

Adamson’s work as a visual effects supervisor includes the features “Batman Forever,” “A

Time to Kill” and “Batman & Robin.”

Additional honors include an Annie (Achievements in Animation) and BAFTA Children’s

Award for “Shrek,” a Grammy® nomination for “Shrek 2” and two nominations for the Cannes

Film Festival’s Palme D’Or for both “Shrek” features.

CHRISTOPHER MARKUS and STEPHEN McFEELY (screenwriters) return to the

land of Narnia having co-written the adaptation of the first project, the global box-office hit

“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Their work on that film

earned them nominations for the Saturn, Hugo and Humanitas Awards.

Markus and McFeely, born in Buffalo and San Francisco, respectively, have been writing

together since 1995. Chris (Rutgers University) and Steve (University of Notre Dame) met

while attending the Graduate Writing Program at UC Davis.

Prior to their success with the C.S. Lewis project, Markus and McFeely penned the original

screenplay for the critically acclaimed HBO feature “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,”

starring Academy Award® winner Geoffrey Rush. Their first produced film premiered in

competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and went on to earn numerous honors, including

nine Emmy® Awards. Markus and McFeely themselves won the Emmy® for Outstanding

Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special as well as a Writers Guild Award.

“You Kill Me,” based on their original screenplay and directed by John Dahl, was released

last year. Their latest project is “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”

C.S. LEWIS (author), one of the 20th century’s most respected and prolific authors,

produced fiction ranging from children’s books to fantasy, science fiction and novels. His

scholarly work, from medieval and Renaissance literature to literary theory, and his witty and

imaginative exposition of Christian belief have made him an intellectual and spiritual mentor

to millions.

Born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was educated in

various secondary schools before entering Oxford University in 1917. His college education

was interrupted by his service in World War I as a second lieutenant with the Somerset Light

Infantry. Wounded and hospitalized in 1918, he returned to Oxford in 1919, graduated with

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In 1925, Lewis began a three-decade tenure at Oxford when he was named fellow and tutor

at Magdalen College, Oxford. He retained the post until 1954, when he was elected professor

of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, an appointment he

held until his death in 1963.

He is the author of over 40 books, which includes virtually every genre except biography

and drama. Lewis first expressed interest in becoming a poet with the publication of his first

two volumes of verse, Spirits in Bondage (1919) and Dymer (1926), both written under the

pseudonym of Clive Hamilton (his own first name plus his mother’s maiden name).

His reputation as a scholar was established with his 1936 tome, The Allegory of Love: A

Study in Medieval Tradition, which earned the Gollancz Memorial Prize for literature. He

ventured into fiction with his 1938 novel, Out of the Silent Planet, the first of his science-

fiction trilogy that included Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945), fiction

dealing with the cosmic struggle between good and evil.

Lewis’ broader reputation rests with his scholarly interpretation of Christianity, a subject

the former atheist explored in such original works as The Screwtape Letters (1942), a unique

look at life on Earth as seen from the viewpoint of the Devil, which became one of his most

popular books; The Great Divorce (1946), a first-person narrative depicting a busload of souls

from hell who travel to heaven to repent their sins; and Mere Christianity (1952), a collection

of lectures on the basics of Christian faith broadcast by the BBC during World War II.

In 1950, Lewis turned to the world of fantasy and fairy tales with the first of seven

children’s books, collectively entitled The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe, the first book published, introduces the reader to the imaginative land of Narnia, an

enchanting world of talking animals ruled by a noble lion, Aslan, which is discovered by a

quartet of siblings in a magical wardrobe in an English country house.

Lewis published six more volumes, one annually, continuing with Prince Caspian (1951),

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and His Boy

(1954), The Magician’s Nephew (1955, and the prequel to the first book) and concluded his

adventures in Narnia with The Last Battle (1956), the latter honored with the prestigious

Carnegie Award, the highest mark of excellence in children’s literature. To date, the series has

sold over 85,000,000 copies.

Lewis’ other works of note include The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for

Christianity, Reason and Romanticism (1933), The Problem of Pain (1940), Reflections on the

Psalms (1958), Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) and two autobiographical works—

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955) and A Grief Observed (1961), the former

his spiritual journey from atheism to Christianity and the latter a response to his wife’s

untimely death from cancer in 1960. Lewis himself died on November 22, 1963, the same day

as author Aldous Huxley and assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Three years after his

death, his letters, edited and with a memoir by his older brother, W.H. Lewis, were published.

With translation of dozens of books into scores of languages and foreign sales in multiple

millions, Lewis has become a thinker of international importance.

MARK JOHNSON (producer), one of the industry’s most accomplished producers,

returns to the world of Narnia following the global box-office hit “The Chronicles of Narnia:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” which earned over $745 million in its worldwide

theatrical release and collected numerous awards, including the Oscar® for Best Achievement

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in Makeup (as well as nominations for visual effects and sound).

Johnson is no stranger to the podium at the Academy Awards®—he won the Best Picture

honor for Barry Levinson’s poignant 1988 drama, “Rain Man,” starring Dustin Hoffman (Best

Actor Oscar®) and Tom Cruise. One of several films Johnson made with Levinson during a 12year

span, the movie (winner of four Oscars®) also captured a Golden Globe® as Best Picture.

Three years later, Johnson returned to the Oscar® ceremonies as a nominee for Levinson’s epic

biopic “Bugsy,” which earned ten nominations, including Best Picture and Director.

Born in Maryland, Johnson spent ten years of his youth in Spain. Before commencing his

career in feature films, he earned his undergraduate degree in drama from the University of

Virginia and his M.A. in Film Scholarship from the University of Iowa. From there, he moved

to New York and entered the Director’s Guild Training Program, where one of his first projects

was Paul Mazursky’s touching autobiographical drama “Next Stop, Greenwich Village.” He

subsequently relocated to Los Angeles and moved up from production assistant to assistant

director on such projects as “Movie, Movie,” “The Brinks Job,” “Escape from Alcatraz” and

Mel Brooks’ “High Anxiety,” which was co-written by future business partner Barry Levinson.

In his successful partnership with Levinson, Johnson produced all of the writer-director’s

films from 1982-94. In addition to “Rain Man,” their diverse slate of acclaimed features

includes “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “The Natural,” “Tin Men,” “Toys,” “Young Sherlock

Holmes,” “Avalon,” “Diner” (their 1982 debut project, for which Levinson earned an Oscar®

nomination for his screenplay) and “Bugsy,” which also captured a Best Picture Golden

Globe® in addition to its ten Oscar® nominations.

In 1994, Johnson established his own independent production company and won the Los

Angeles Film Critics New Generation Award for his very first effort—“A Little Princess,”

directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Johnson, under his new banner, also produced the comedy

“Home Fries” with Drew Barrymore, and the dramatic thriller “Donnie Brasco,” starring Al

Pacino and Johnny Depp. He served as executive producer for CBS-TV’s “L.A. Doctors” and

“Falcone” and also executive-produced the hit CBS drama “The Guardian.” He currently

serves as executive producer on the AMC episodic drama, “Breaking Bad.”

He most recently produced Nick Cassavettes’ hit drama, “The Notebook,” based on

Nicholas Sparks’ bestseller, The Wendell Baker Story, which marked the directorial debuts of

filmmaking brothers Luke and Andrew Wilson, and reunited with Walden Media on the film

adaptation of Thomas Rockwell’s children’s book, How to Eat Fried Worms. He just completed

two more feature films—the independent drama “Ballast” (as executive producer) and

Richard Shepard’s “The Hunting Party,” starring Richard Gere and Terrence Howard.

Other recent motion pictures include “The Alamo” and “The Rookie,” both directed by

John Lee Hancock; “The Banger Sisters,” with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn; Brad

Silberling’s drama, “Moonlight Mile,” with Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman; Tom Shadyac’s

supernatural thriller, “Dragonfly,” with Kevin Costner and Kathy Bates; Levinson’s Irish satire

“An Everlasting Piece”; Robert Zemeckis’ spooky thriller “What Lies Beneath,” starring

Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer; the hit comedy “Galaxy Quest” with Tim Allen and

Sigourney Weaver; and “My Dog Skip,” the acclaimed family drama (co-produced with John

Lee Hancock) starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane and Kevin Bacon.

Additionally, Johnson has either presented or executive-produced Luis Llosa’s directorial

debut, “Sniper,” Tim Robbins’ directorial debut, “Bob Roberts,” Steven Soderbergh’s “Kafka”

and Robert Redford’s Oscar®-nominated “Quiz Show.” He serves as the chairman of the

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Foreign Language Film award selection

committee and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy (Producers Branch).

PHILIP STEUER (producer) reunites with producer Mark Johnson for their fifth project

together. In addition to the first “Narnia” project, Steuer first executive-produced two John

Lee Hancock movies—“The Rookie,” one of 2002’s critical and commercial hits, and his epic

retelling of the battle for Texas independence, “The Alamo.” He and Johnson also produced

the Walden Media adaptation of Thomas Rockwell’s popular children’s book How to Eat Fried

Worms.

The son of Robert Steuer, a film production/distribution executive at American

International Pictures, Steuer spent summers as an intern on several of AIP’s productions.

Those apprenticeships imbued the future producer with a thorough education of all aspects of

filmmaking.

He became a top property master in the feature-film arena (working with such respected

filmmakers as Mike Nichols, Neil Jordan, Ken Russell and Bruce Beresford) before

graduating to production supervisor on Peter Weir’s award-winning “The Truman Show,”

David Mirkin’s comedy, “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” and Beresford’s prison

drama, “Last Dance.”

Steuer next established an ongoing collaboration with respected filmmaker Neil LaBute.

The pair joined forces for Propaganda Films and produced “Your Friends and Neighbors,” the

biting romantic satire starring Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhardt and Jason Patric. They collaborated

again on the critically acclaimed, offbeat comedy “Nurse Betty,” with Renée Zellweger,

Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, which was nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or at the

2000 Cannes Film Festival. He again reunited with LaBute on “The Shape of Things,” a quirky

romantic story starring Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz.

In addition to his stellar film resume, Steuer has also lent his talents to the advertising

world, executive-producing the second series of memorable BMW Internet short features. The

followup trilogy, “Hire: The Hostage,” once again starred Clive Owen in spots directed by

John Woo, Joe Carnahan and Tony Scott. Additionally, he has produced over 40 national

commercial campaigns with such notable production companies as RSA, Propaganda and

Anonymous Content, among others.

PERRY MOORE (executive producer) was a longtime production executive for Walden

Media who was instrumental in bringing the “Narnia” franchise to the company (the first film

represented his debut as a motion-picture executive producer). After landing the rights to the

C.S. Lewis series, he segued into a production deal with his former employer. In addition to

his work in production and development, Moore also wrote the film’s official “making of”

book for HarperCollins, titled The Chronicles of Narnia—The Lion, the Witch, and the

Wardrobe Official Illustrated Movie Companion, which became a New York Times bestseller.

Moore hails from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He majored in English at the University of

Virginia (where he was an Echols Scholar) and later served as an intern in the White House

before launching his entertainment career in talent and development at Viacom’s premier

music networks, MTV and VH1.

He followed that experience as one of the original segment producers for the upstart “Rosie

O’Donnell Show,” one of daytime television’s most popular recent hits. Changing arenas, he

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segued into the motion-picture world as a development executive for the late filmmaker Ted

Demme (“Blow”) and producer Joel Stillman (co-writer on “Shrek,” “Shrek 2”) before joining

Walden Media, where he developed and oversaw such film projects as the upcoming “I Am

David,” the big-screen adaptation of Anne Holm’s acclaimed novel “North to Freedom.”

During his tenure with Walden, Moore also obtained and developed such forthcoming

Walden projects as “The Giver,” “Bridge to Terabithia” and “Manhunt.” Most recently, he

made his feature-film writing-and-directing debut (with co-writer/director Hunter Hill) on the

independent drama “Lake City,” starring Sissy Spacek, Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews,

Keith Carradine, Drea De Matteo and Troy Garity.

In addition to his work in the film arena, Moore just completed a new novel, Hero,

published by Hyperion last August, the first in a multiple-book deal with the publisher.

DOUGLAS GRESHAM (co-producer), who served in the same capacity on “The Lion,

the Witch and the Wardrobe,” is the son of Joy Davidman Gresham and William Lindsay

Gresham and stepson of C.S. Lewis.

Gresham was born in 1946, the second son of novelist William Lindsay Gresham (190962),

and the poet/novelist, Helen Joy Davidman Gresham (1915-60). After the publication of

his father’s novel, Nightmare Alley, in 1946, the family moved to Ossining, New York, and then

to Staatsburg. It was not long afterwards, however, that marital problems began, and in 1952,

his mother spent several months in England completing her book Smoke on the Mountain

(1953). While there, she became friends with C.S. Lewis and spent Christmas with the Lewis

brothers in Oxford. After breaking with William Gresham, his mother returned to England

(London) in 1953 with her sons.

Following his parents’ divorce in 1954, the young Gresham went to school in Surrey. The

next year, the family moved to Headington, Oxford. In 1956, his mother and Lewis were

married in a civil ceremony, which was shortly followed, after the discovery of her terminal

cancer condition, by a Christian marriage. After his mother died of cancer in 1960, Douglas

continued to live with Lewis in their Headington Quarry home until Lewis’ death in 1963 (the

year after the death of his own father).

For the next few years, Gresham studied agriculture and worked on farms. During this time,

he met and fell in love with Meredith (“Merrie”) Conan-Davies, with the couple marrying in

1967. Shortly after the wedding, he and his new wife sailed for Australia. Over the many and

eventful years they spent in Australia, he was a farmer, a radio and television broadcaster, a

restauranteur and many other things between. It was there in Australia that their children were

born—James in 1968, Timothy in 1969, Dominick in 1971 and Lucinda in 1976. In 1990, they

adopted Melody, then five years old, from Korea. They now have nine grandchildren.

Since 1973, Gresham has worked with all aspects of the Estate of C.S. Lewis, and in 1993,

the family moved to Ireland so that he could give it more of his attention. He and his wife (both

committed Christians who recently relocated to Malta) previously made their home in County

Carlow Ireland, a multifaceted non-denominational Christian House Ministry, which

specializes in counseling ministry and seminar-hosting.

In 1988 he published his autobiographical book Lenten Lands (HarperCollins). His new

book, Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis, was published by Broadman and Holman in

October 2005. He now works full-time for the C.S. Lewis Company and devotes his spare time

to a variety of Christian work.

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KARL WALTER LINDENLAUB, ASC, bvk (director of photography) was born in

Bremen, Germany, and raised in Hamburg. The award-winning cameraman studied his craft

at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (Academy of Television & Film in Munich, or HFF,

one of Germany’s two original film schools) before earning a scholarship to further his studies

at England’s renowned National Film and Television School.

Following early cinematography credits on student films made at HFF and in the European

cinema, Lindenlaub established ongoing associations with such filmmakers as Michael

Caton-Jones (“City by the Sea,” “Rob Roy,” “The Jackal”), Wayne Wang (“Maid in

Manhattan,” “Because of Winn-Dixie”), Garry Marshall (“The Princess Diaries,” “Georgia

Rule”), Jon Avnet (“Red Corner,” “Up Close and Personal”) and fellow German Roland

Emmerich, with whom he has collaborated seven times.

His work with Emmerich includes the sci-fi epics “Independence Day” and “Stargate,” as

well as “Universal Soldier,” “Moon 44” (winning the German Camera Award for his

cinematography), “Hollywood-Monster” (aka “Ghost Chase”), “Eye of the Storm” (which

Emmerich executive-produced) and his very first feature, “Altosax,” which he co-wrote with

Emmerich in 1980 while a student at the Munich academy.

Lindenlaub has also worked with such directors as Jan de Bont (“The Haunting”), Bob

Dolman (“The Banger Sisters”) and, most recently, Paul Verhoeven (on the upcoming release

“Black Book”).

ROGER FORD (production designer) is one of Australia’s most distinguished film artists

whose work (in both art direction and costume design) has been honored with several awards

and nominations, most notably an Academy Award® nomination for his production design on

Chris Noonan’s endearing classic “Babe.” He returns to the world of Narnia after having

designed several dozen dazzling sets for the first film, “The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe.”

Ford won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for production design on Peter

Duncan’s “Children of the Revolution,” John Duigan’s “Flirting” and AFI’s Open Craft

Category for Russell Mulcahy’s miniseries, “On the Beach.” He has collected six additional

AFI nominations, for production design on “Doing Time for Patsy Cline” and Mulcahy’s

“Swimming Upstream,” for costume design on “The Nostradamus Kid” and his debut feature,

“Those Dear Departed,” and dual nominations (costume and production design) for Philip

Noyce’s acclaimed docudrama, “Rabbit-Proof Fence.”

Ford also worked with Noyce on the Oscar®-nominated drama “The Quiet American” and

collaborated with Aussie filmmaker Duigan on two additional titles—“Romero” and “Sirens.”

He joined director George Miller, who produced “Babe,” on the acclaimed sequel, “Babe: Pig

in the City,” and also designed the films “Lilian’s Story,” the IMAX film “Sydney—Story of

a City” and P.J. Hogan’s recent version of “Peter Pan.”

A native of England, Ford attended the Leicester College of Art before working at the BBC,

where his earliest projects in production design included “The Cliff Richard Show,” “The

Cillia Black Show,” “The Spike Milligan Show,” “The Dave Allen Show” and the cult classic

“Dr. Who.” After a six-year stint at the BBC, Ford visited Australia with the intent of staying

for two years. His initial assignment with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) led

to becoming design department head, and those two years have turned into three decades for

the adopted Aussie.

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SIM EVAN-JONES, A.C.E. (film editor) reunites with director Andrew Adamson after

having previously served as his editor on “Shrek” (for which he earned an American Cinema

Editors Eddie Award nomination), the blockbuster sequel, “Shrek 2,” and “The Chronicles of

Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

A native of Great Britain, Evan-Jones received a degree in Film and Communication from

the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He joined DreamWorks SKG in 1995 after

working at Steven Spielberg’s Amblimation studio in London. His credits there included the

posts of assistant editor on “An American Tail” and co-editor on “We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s

Story” and “Balto.” He also served as associate editor on DreamWorks’ 1998 animated

musical “The Prince of Egypt,” then a visual effects supervisor.

ISIS MUSSENDEN (costume designer) reunites with director Andrew Adamson after

designing the wardrobes for his two animated classics, “Shrek” and “Shrek 2,” and “The

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” For her work on the latter

project, Mussenden won the Costume Designers Guild honor and the Academy of Science

Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Saturn Award and received a nomination for the British Academy

Award (BAFTA).

In a career spanning two decades, the California native has created costumes for a wide

range of stage and screen projects, including such diverse films as “Jay and Silent Bob Strike

Back,” “Thirteen Days,” “Life of the Party,” “American Psycho,” “The Astronaut’s Wife,”

“Some Girl,” “Dante’s Peak,” “Daylight,” “Albino Alligator,” “White Man’s Burden,” “Ghost

in the Machine,” “Shocker,” “Bodies, Rest & Motion,” “Matinee,” “The Waterdance,” “Dirty

Dancing: Havana Nights,” “Breakin’All the Rules” and Brad Silberling’s offbeat dramedy, “10

Items or Less.”

She made her feature debut in 1986 with the romantic comedy “The Allnighter” and earlier

served as an assistant designer on “Crocodile Dundee” and “Falling in Love” and a costume

assistant on Robert Benton’s Oscar®-winning “Places in the Heart” and Woody Allen’s “The

Purple Rose of Cairo.”

She has also worked on a number of long-form television projects, including HBO’s “A

Private Matter,” Lifetime’s “Storm and Sorrow,” CBS’ “Taken Away” and Turner Pictures’

“Memphis,” for which she earned a CableACE nomination for her designs. She also served as

a costume assistant on the miniseries “Kennedy,” starring Martin Sheen in the title role.

Mussenden attended the University of California at Santa Barbara as an art major and later

graduated from New York’s prestigious Parson School of Design, earning her Bachelor of Fine

Arts degree in fashion design. She began her career with two seasons at Joseph Papp’s

renowned New York Shakespeare Festival and cut her teeth in the theater world on dozens of

plays, including “Been Taken,” “The Crate,” “At Home” and Roger Hedden’s “Bodies, Rest &

Motion” at Lincoln Center. She also designed the wardrobes for the “Marathons” festival of

one-act plays (by such playwrights as Hedden, David Mamet and Shel Silverstein) at New

York’s Ensemble Studio Theater. She is currently working with Sam Raimi on his upcoming

horror film titled “Drag Me to Hell.”

HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS (composer) is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after

composers, working on a variety of high-profile projects, both animated and live action. Over

the last few years, Harry has scored some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters, including

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“Shrek the Third,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” (for

which he received nominations for a Golden Globe® and Grammy®), “Shrek” (for which he

received a BAFTA nomination), “Shrek 2” and “Chicken Run.” He most recently wrote the

score for “Gone Baby Gone,” which marked the directorial debut of Ben Affleck.

Gregson-Williams has collaborated on several movies with director Tony Scott, including

“Man on Fire,” “Domino,” “Spy Game” and “Déjà Vu,” as well as three films with Joel

Schumacher, the thriller “Phone Booth,” “Veronica Guerin” and the recent film “The Number

23,” starring Jim Carrey. His other film credits include “Seraphim Falls,” “Kingdom of

Heaven” (nominee for a Classical Brit award and winner of a Golden Satellite award),

“Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” “Enemy of the State,” “The Replacement Killers,”

“Smilla’s Sense of Snow” and “Antz,” among others. Born in England to a musical family,

Gregson-Williams earned a scholarship from the music school of St. John’s College in

Cambridge at the age of seven.

By age 13, his singing had been featured on over a dozen records, and he subsequently

earned a coveted spot at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He started his

film career as an orchestrator and arranger for composer Stanley Myers and went on to

compose his first scores for the veteran English director Nicolas Roeg. Gregson-Williams’

initiation into Hollywood film scoring was then facilitated by his collaboration and friendship

with Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer. This resulted in Gregson-Williams providing

music for such films as “The Rock,” “Broken Arrow,” “The Fan,” “Muppet Treasure Island,”

“Armageddon,” “As Good as It Gets” and “The Prince of Egypt.” Gregson-Williams has

conducted acclaimed concerts of his music from “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the

Witch and the Wardrobe” in Madrid in 2006 and in Denver in 2007.

Upcoming projects include “The Taking of Pelham 123,” directed by Tony Scott; “G-Force”

from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney; and “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” directed by

Gavin Hood.

DEAN WRIGHT (visual effects supervisor) earned nominations for the Oscar®, BAFTA,

Saturn and Visual Effects Society awards for his work as visual effects supervisor on “The

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (sharing the nominations with

fellow VFX wizards Jim Berney, Scott Farrar and Bill Westenhofer).

Prior to his achievement on “The Chronicles of Narnia,” Wright had been involved with

motion-picture visual effects for over a decade on such prestigious projects as “Titanic,”

“What Dreams May Come,” “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” and “Lord of the Rings:

The Return of the King”—all Academy Award® winners for their innovative effects works.

Wright, a Michigan native, enrolled in the University of Arizona film school to pursue a

career as a filmmaker. After completing his studies in 1986, he secured his first job on a

Western movie-of-the-week for NBC entitled “Desperado.” Relocating to Los Angeles in

1989, he soon landed work with one of the industry’s most prominent directors, James

Cameron, on the groundbreaking project “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” which went on to win

the Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects.

This project propelled Wright into larger production roles in a variety of capacities—

production coordinator, post-production coordinator and, ultimately, production manager for

such acclaimed filmmakers as Wes Craven (“Scream”), Christopher Guest (“Almost Heroes”),

Ron Underwood (“Heart & Souls,” “Speechless”), Glenn Jordan (“Neil Simon’s Jake’s

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Women”), Diane Keaton (“Wildflower”) and Danny DeVito (“Sunset Park”).

Wright was again presented with an opportunity to work in the visual effects arena as the

VFX Production Manager for Cameron’s own VFX house, Digital Domain. Collaborating

with Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato, Wright dove into what would prove to be the most

popular movie of all time, “Titanic,” which captured 11 Academy Awards® in 1997, including

the Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.

Following this triumph, Wright was promoted to visual effects producer and helped land

the facility’s next landmark project, “What Dreams May Come.” Working with director

Vincent Ward and visual effects supervisor Kevin Scott Mack, Wright and Digital Domain

again helped create cutting-edge work, and the film earned the Academy Award® for Best

Visual Effects for 1998.

After producing the VFX for several other projects, he joined Dream Quest Images. During

his four-year tenure there (1998-2002), Wright was responsible for the production of all VFX

at the facility, overseeing more than 30 feature films, theme-park attractions and animation

projects, including “Kangaroo Jack,” “Reign of Fire,” “102 Dalmatians,” “Mission to Mars,”

“Inspector Gadget,” “Mighty Joe Young” (Oscar® nominee), “Unbreakable,” “Gone in 60

Seconds,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Bicentennial Man” and “Shanghai Noon,” to name a few.

In early 2002, filmmaker Peter Jackson called upon Wright to fill the role of visual effects

producer for the final two chapters in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy—“The Two Towers” and

“The Return of the King,” teaming with Oscar®-winning VFX supervisor Jim Rygiel. In 2003,

“The Two Towers” would be recognized for its revolutionary achievements in visual effects

with an astounding eight Visual Effects Society Awards, the BAFTA Award, as well as the

Academy Award® for Visual Effects.

“The Return of the King,” proving to be the ultimate jewel in Jackson’s triple crown,

shattered box-office records worldwide to become the second-highest-grossing film of all

time and the second film to cross the $1 billion mark (both behind “Titanic”). “The Return of

the King” would also triumph at the 2004 Academy Awards®, sweeping all 11 categories in

which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Director and Visual Effects. Wright himself

picked up the top Visual Effects Society Award in recognition for his work on the project.

WENDY ROGERS (visual effects supervisor) reteams with director Andrew Adamson,

with whom she collaborated on visual effects for his Oscar®-winning animated hit, “Shrek,”

and Joel Schumacher’s “Batman” films—“Batman & Robin” and “Batman Forever” (on

which she served as technical director for the exciting “Luge” sequence).

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Rogers majored in business studies as a student in

Brisbane. She began her career in computer programming before segueing into graphic design

and visual effects.

She moved to the U.S. in 1991 and worked as a senior animator at Pacific Data Images

(now PDI/DreamWorks), where she met another rising visual effects talent, Andrew Adamson

(first working with him on Barry Levinson’s film “Toys”).

Her early animation and CG work include such live-action credits as Oliver Stone’s

“Natural Born Killers” and Brian de Palma’s “Carlito’s Way,” as CG supervisor on the epic

“Waterworld” and as digital artist on Peter Jackson’s 1996 horror film, “The Frighteners.”

In 1997, she joined DreamWorks, initially as a CG visual development artist on Adamson’s

“Shrek.” She followed as digital effects supervisor on the animated film “Spirit: Stallion of

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the Cimarron,” then as the lead effects artist on “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.” Most

recently, she supervised the visual effects on the computer-animated hit film “Flushed Away.”

THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY/MPC (visual effects) creates world-leading

digital visual effects and computer animation for feature films, advertising, music videos and

television. Based in Soho, London, MPC is a purpose-built facility boasting a dedicated

digital infrastructure to ensure the most efficient VFX pipeline is utilized by 550 of the most

talented visual effects artists and production staff.

In addition to PRINCE CASPIAN, the team again executed VFX for high-profile projects,

including sole vendor handling all the VFX for the newly released “Sweeney Todd” musical

film directed by Tim Burton. Other projects encompass “10,000 B.C.” (Roland Emmerich),

“Golden Age” (Shekhar Kapur), “The Other Boleyn Girl” (Justin Chadwick) and “Fred Claus”

(David Dobkin). MPC is also excited to have completed shots for its fifth movie in the “Harry

Potter” franchise, entitled “The Order of the Phoenix,” directed by David Yates.

MPC was proud to work on international feature films including Wolfgang Petersen’s

Academy Award® VFX nominee “Poseidon,” Ron Howard’s “The Da Vinci Code,” Brett

Ratner’s “X-Men 3: The Last Stand” and Danny Boyle’s space feature “Sunshine,” for which

it created all the visual effects.

In the last couple of years, the crew has successfully matched stylized CG work to

internationally renowned stop-motion projects, including creating CG bunnies for the Oscar®winning

“Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and the floating veil, birds and

spiders for Burton’s acclaimed animated feature “The Corpse Bride.”

MPC also won the VES (Visual Effects Society) Award for Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of

Heaven.” The company picked up two additional nominations for the TV program “Hogfather”

and for The Killer’s music video “Bones.” It also won an Emmy® for “Virtual History: The

Secret Plot to Kill Hitler” (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic and

Artistic Design) and an Annie Award for its animated effects on “Wallace and Gromit: The

Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”

London’s bespoke Digital Lab has digitally color-graded high-profile movies, including Joe

Wright’s “Pride and Prejudice,” Burton’s “The Corpse Bride” and Nick Park and Steve Box’s

“Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” Other features to have been graded at MPC

include Paul Weiland’s “Sixty Six,” Wolfgang Petersen’s epic “Troy,” the runaway “zomcom”

“Shaun of the Dead” (Edgar Wright) and “Sunshine,” “28 Days Later” and “Millions,” all

directed by Danny Boyle.

The other side of MPC works on some of the most exciting commercials in the world today.

By mixing fresh talent from different cultures, they’ve built a dynamic team of artists and a

diverse creative portfolio. Recent work has included spots such as the BTAA Ad of the Year

2006, Jonathan Glazer’s Sony Bravia “Paint”; Johnny Green’s Audi, “Satellite”; and Lynn

Fox’s Ballantines, “Underground.” The team was also instrumental in contemporary classics

such as Anthony Minghella’s Guinness, “Redemption”; Volkswagen Golf GTi, “Singin’ in the

Rain” (N-eo); and the BTAA ad of the year 2005, Stella Artois, “Ice Skating Priests”

(Jonathan Glazer) as well as new campaigns for high profile brands such as Levi’s,

“Moonbathe” (Anthony Atanasio); Orange, “Illuminations” (Nicolai Fuglsig) Vodafone

“Work and Play” (Dougal Wilson); and many of the “Planet 3” (Traktor) series.

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production for Sky One’s “Hogfather.” Recently completed TV work includes the development

of the new Channel 4 screen idents, BBC One’s “The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs” and

“Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution” for BBC History. The team completed award-

winning effects for “Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler” through Tiger Aspect for

The Discovery Channel. This ground-breaking documentary sees accurate face replacement

(CG mapped onto the faces of real actors to recreate accurate archive footage of Adolf Hitler,

Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt) for the first time on television.

For PRINCE CASPIAN, MPC has assigned two of its creative wizards to serve as VFX

supervisors on the film—Tom Wood and Greg Butler.

Coming from a fine art and graphic design background, Tom Wood brings a nonconformist

approach to the visual effects branch of the company. With 11 years of experience supervising

digital effects in London and five years as a visual effects supervisor, Tom has built a reputation

for quality image-making for some of the world’s most influential directors.

He has served as VFX supervisor on three projects—“Sunshine,” “Sylvia” and Ridley

Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven,” for which he shared a VES Award for Best Supporting Visual

Effects in a Motion Picture. His other work for MPC (in digital effects, compositing and title

design) include two 007 thrillers, “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “The World Is Not Enough,”

“Lost in Space,” “Event Horizon,” “Enemy at the Gates,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of

Secrets” and “Snatch.”

Greg Butler has a long history in creature- and character-dominated visual effects. After an

early introduction to large-scale CG production at ILM, the Connecticut native joined a small

team at Tippett Studio as they transitioned from a traditional stop-motion creature shop to

create the bugs for Paul Verhoeven’s “Starship Troopers.”

Prior to joining The Moving Picture Company for the final stages of “Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory,” Butler spent six years in New Zealand, first building Weta Digital’s Creature

Department, then supervising sequences on all the “Lord of the Rings” films. He shared a VES

Award for Outstanding Character Animation for the final chapter, “Return of the King.”

With an academic background in film, television and theater design, the Hampshire

College graduate approaches visual effects work with an emphasis on blending traditional

rules of these older crafts with emerging visual technologies.

His other motion-picture credits include CG supervisor on all three of Peter Jackson’s

“LOTR” films as well as “King Kong,” “I, Robot” and “My Favorite Martian” before jumping

up to VFX supervisor on “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and Michael Apted’s

historical drama, “Amazing Grace.”

Additionally, he worked in various capacities on such films as “Baby’s Day Out,” “The

Mask,” “Practical Magic,” “The Flintstones” and “Forrest Gump,” which earned the 1994

Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.

You can learn more about the company at its website—www.moving-picture.com.

FRAMESTORE-CFC (visual effects) is the largest visual effects and computer animation

studio in Europe, with over 20 years’ experience in digital film and video technology.

The company has won numerous international awards, including two Technical Academy

Awards® from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, three BAFTA Craft Awards

and thirteen Primetime Emmy® Awards.

Work in the pipeline for 2007/2008 includes “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,”

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“His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass” and Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel, “The

Dark Knight.” Work continues on the company’s first animated feature project, “The Tale of

Despereaux” and, for television, “Primeval 2.”

The company’s movie portfolio includes work on such films as “Children of Men,”

“Superman Returns,” “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and the

four previous “Harry Potter” films. Recent Digital Intermediate projects include “Mr. Bean’s

Holiday,” “Hot Fuzz,” “Hannibal’s Rising,” “United 93,” “The Queen,” “The Last King of

Scotland” and “Casino Royale.”

Recent television work includes “Primeval,” “Prehistoric Park,” “Ocean Odyssey,” “Space

Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets” and all the episodes of the “Walking With…” series.

Among Framestore-CFC’s notable commercial credits are Casino Royale (title sequence),

Vauxhall (“C’mon”), Sure (“Go Wild”), Guinness (“noitulovE” and “Surfer”), Dairy Crest

(“Cityside”), Johnnie Walker (“Fish”) and Levi’s (“Odyssey”).

Oscar®-winning VFX supervisor Jon Thum will oversee the company’s visual effects

creations for the film. Thum collected Hollywood’s highest honor for his work on the

Wachowski Bros.’ 1999 sci-fi classic, “The Matrix.” Most recently, he earned his second

Academy Award® nomination for “Superman Returns,” for which he also was cited for his

third BAFTA nomination (he won the BAFTA Award for “The Matrix” and picked up a second

nod for Tim Burton’s magical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”). He began his association

with the company as a compositing artist on such projects as “What Lies Beneath,” “Chicken

Run” and “Mission: Impossible II” before graduating to VFX supervisor on two historical

epics—Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy” and Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven.”

WETA WORKSHOP (armor/weapon designs and fabrication) is a multifaceted effects

company based in Wellington, New Zealand, which produces effects for television and film.

Founded in 1986 by five-time Academy Award® winner Richard Taylor and partner Tania

Rodger, Weta has produced creature and makeup effects for all of Peter Jackson’s films,

including his Oscar®-winning “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Meet the Feebles,” “The

Frighteners,” “Braindead,” “King Kong” and “Heavenly Creatures.”

In 1993, Taylor and partners, working with just one computer, created Weta Digital to

produce the digital effects for Jackson’s Oscar®-nominated (Original Screenplay) fantasy,

“Heavenly Creatures.”

Weta continued its collaboration with Jackson on his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which

brought the effects company worldwide prominence. For the landmark “Rings” trilogy, Weta

manufactured over 1,200 suits of armor, 2,000 weapons, 68 miniatures, a dozen major

creatures, all of the special makeup effects and prosthetic suits servicing seven shooting units

and two miniatures units.

Taylor, along with the firm’s innovative co-founder and partner, Rodger, won four Academy

Awards® for his contributions to “Lord of the Rings”—Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup

for “Fellowship of the Ring” (in addition to a nomination for Best Costume Design) and Best

Costume Design and Best Makeup on “Return of the King.” He won British Academy

(BAFTA) Awards for Best Costume Design on “The Two Towers” and Best Visual Effects and

Best Makeup on “The Fellowship of the Ring” and earned additional nominations for Best

Makeup on “The Two Towers” and “Return of the King” and Best Costume Design on “Return

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On his most recent collaboration with Jackson, Taylor won his fifth Oscar® and another

BAFTA honor for Best Visual Effects on “King Kong,” Jackson’s epic retelling of the 1933

horror classic.

In addition to his ongoing association with Jackson, he also served as miniature effects

supervisor on Peter Weir’s “Master & Commander,” produced 1,700 weapons for Ed Zwick’s

“The Last Samurai,” designed the guns for “Hellboy” and collaborated with Jackson on his

earlier efforts, “Braindead” and “The Frighteners,” the TV miniseries “The Tommyknockers,”

the Kiwi-based TV series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and “Xena: Warrior Princess,”

and effects for Lee Tamahori’s “Once Were Warriors.” He most recently completed work on

Jonathan King’s Kiwi horror-comedy, “Black Sheep.”

Taylor has also developed a merchandising business and has created high-end collectibles

for “The Lord of the Rings,” “King Kong,” “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”

“Superman,” “Hellgate” and Jim Henson’s Muppets.

Weta Digital VFX supervisor Guy Williams has more than 14 years’ experience in the

visual effects industry, with a specialty in photo-real effects and creatures for live-action film.

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Williams intended to study aerospace engineering at

Mississippi State University. During his college years, he turned his interests to CG effects and

moved into the computer arts program.

After leaving the university to work at Boss Films, Williams worked at Warner Bros.,

Rhythm and Hues, Rainmaker LA, Cinesite and Pacific Title before relocating to New

Zealand in 1999 to work on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. He has had broad experience in

both 2D and 3D work, on projects including feature films, television, commercials and ride

films.

Since joining Weta Digital, he has also worked on “I, Robot,” “King Kong” (VES Award),

“X-Men: The Last Stand” and “Eragon,” on which he served as co-VFX supervisor. Earlier in

his career, Williams worked as a digital artist and compositor on such films as “Eraser,” “True

Lies,” “Drop Zone” and “Batman Forever.” His industry experience also includes such titles

as “Mars Attacks!” (digital effects supervisor) and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

KNB EFX GROUP (special makeup/creature/character prosthetics) founding partner

Howard Berger won the 2005 Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Makeup (shared with

Tami Lane) for his innovative character creations, animatronics and creature prosthetics on

Andrew Adamson’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” With

partner Greg Nicotero, the pair also shared the BAFTA Award for the film’s makeup as well

as a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

KNB EFX Group was formed in 1988 by partners Nicotero and Berger and has become the

industry’s effects house of choice for cutting-edge directors such as Quentin Tarantino (“Kill

Bill, Vol. 1” and “2”), Robert Rodriguez (“Spy Kids” trilogy, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,”

“Sin City”), Steven Spielberg (“Amistad,” “Minority Report”) and Jay Roach (“Austin Powers

in Goldmember,” “Meet the Fockers”), among many other filmmakers.

The pair formed their partnership after collectively working on Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead II.”

They continued their affiliation with Raimi on such projects as “Army of Darkness,” “A

Simple Plan” and, most recently, “Spider-Man 3” and have also maintained an ongoing

association with director Tarantino that began with “Reservoir Dogs.” They supplied the

creature and special makeup effects on the Tarantino-scripted vampire thriller, “From Dusk ’til

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Dawn,” directed by Robert Rodriguez, which led to their continued association with both

filmmakers, culminating most recently with their shared directorial effort, “Grindhouse.”

KNB recently completed work on the current remake of the 1986 thriller “The Hitcher”;

the Jim Carrey starrer, “Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events” (an Oscar® winner

for makeup); “House of Wax” for producer Joel Silver; “Serenity” for director Joss Wheadon;

Michael Bay’s “The Island” and “Transformers”; George Romero’s “Land of the Dead” and

“Diary of the Dead”; Wolfgang Petersen’s “Poseidon,” “Hostel” and the upcoming sequel for

director Eli Roth,; and the remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic, “The Hills Have Eyes.”

The company also designed and applied the character makeup on Jamie Foxx, transforming

the actor into singer Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford’s biopic, “Ray.”

Its innovative makeup effects are also on display in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie

Nights” and “Magnolia,” Martin Scorsese’s “Casino,” Frank Darabont’s “The Green Mile” and

his current project, “The Mist,” Rob Reinder’s “Misery,” Eli Roth’s horror hit, “Cabin Fever,”

David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” Kevin Costner’s “Dances with Wolves” and Simon Wells’

“The Time Machine,” which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Makeup. KNB

also worked on “The Cell,” another Best Makeup Oscar® nominee.

KNB also devised both the superhero and the supervillain appliances for “Spawn,” an

ambitious adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s bestselling comic book, which included the

prosthetic makeup and body suits for John Leguizamo’s Clown character and a 12-foot

hydraulic puppet of the Violator, Spawn’s demonic arch nemesis.

Although most of its work (600 titles) is in the feature-film arena, KNB has also excelled

in the television arena, lending its talents not only to “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and

“Xena: Warrior Princess,” but Showtime’s “The Outer Limits,” FOX’s cult favorite “The X-

Files” and “24,” NBC’s “Law and Order,” HBO’s “Deadwood” and the telefilm “Desperation”

based on the Stephen King novel. Nicotero and Berger won an Emmy® for their work on the

Sci-Fi Channel’s “Dune.”

KNB’s partners come from disparate backgrounds. Nicotero hails from Pittsburgh, where

he began his career under the tutelage of acclaimed horror director George Romero and

makeup effects master Tom Savini. He most recently continued his ongoing affiliation with

Romero on “Land of the Dead,” serving as 2nd unit director and animatronic and creature

makeup supervisor.

Berger grew up in Los Angeles (the son of a post-production sound mixer) and spent his

younger years visiting the studios of Oscar® winners Stan Winston and Rick Baker, the

renowned animatronic and makeup effects innovators, with whom he would later collaborate

on “Aliens,” “Pumpkinhead,” “Predator,” “Harry and the Hendersons” and “Men in Black.”

The company currently resides in a 22,000-square-foot studio in Van Nuys, California, with a

staff of 82 artists.

Information contained within as of May 1, 2008.

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