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Tomatoes Interview 15th March 2008
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Newcomer Ben Barnes on stepping into the magical world of Disney's Prince
Caspian.
"In Prince Caspian, the magic has gone from Narnia, because it's been
taken over by greedy, ambitious humans, so it's going to be much darker,
and while The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe was almost a fairytale
story, this is much more of a summer action movie. The joy of the series
is that they're all, individually, completely different genres of story,
and so there's quite a different tone for this film. It's balanced by director
Andrew Adamson, who has this extraordinary ability to focus on minute details
and the vastness of the Narnia story at the same time.
You have to spend the
time getting the story right because as amazing as the special effects might
be if you don't give a shit about the characters then your film won't work.
You have to make people care and you have to show all those different sides
of the character and Caspian's fairly well layered, I think. He's an orphan
whose father has been killed by his uncle and he's ambivalent about being
a leader. He really is on the threshold of manhood and it's quite cathartic;
he has to fight his own people.
I'm definitely going to be doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader and we're lined
up to start in November. We were going to start straight away but we had
problems with the strike and exam schedules for children and all of that.
We're taking our time with it which I think is sensible. The first one was
great but Caspian's going to be even better, so we have to take the time
to make Dawn Treader even better."
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