While discussing whether whether 'St. Bartholomew the Great - Anglican Chruch' is being used as a location for Charn, the question came up as to what does Charn actually look like?
I have been looking at a number of artists impressions and was wondering how do other people picture Charn (not a question of how do you think it will be depicted in the upcoming movie, but simply how do you imagine it)?
I think I have been biased by Pauline Baynes' illustrations of Charn and I very much see it as Ancient ruins. (Though even then, I have a tendency to imagine it with Modern style buildings - that are somehow made out of stones rather than concreate, iron and glass - left to rot for about a thousand years.)
There's quite a variety of artistic depictions; do any of the illustrations fit your idea of Charn:
Pauline Baynes - Charn Courtyard
Pauline Baynes - Charn, Collapsing arch
Tim Kirk - Jadis shows Charn to the kids
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Posted : September 19, 2025 2:27 pm
Based on the book, maybe a little something along the lines of this, but without any living greenery.
What's important to me: Ruins. Dying sun. Dying world (no wind, nothing alive, nothing). Hall of "wax" figures should be properly creepy. Plus bell.
But the specific look of everything and everyone is open to interpretation. Obviously we've seen that they've chosen to do kind of a 50s sci-fi look for Jadis which is a different choice than anyone expected. I think we will see a similar look for the world-building. Something like this maybe? Or this? Or this? (But without any artificial lights or robots.)
A sci-fi world is not how I personally pictured Charn, HOWEVER, there's that bit at the end of MN where Aslan takes Digory and Polly to the Wood Between the Worlds, shows them the dried up puddle of Charn, and warns them that that could happen to Earth. So I don't think it's too much of a stretch to show some kind of futuristic world that's well past our technological understanding, but has gone rotten to the core, so what good is all that stuff?
Sorry, I went a bit off-topic there @DavidD, but I am SOOO curious to see how Charn is imagined for this film, particularly with Jadis's get-up.
ETA: Also DavidD, I really love your picture 7. Is that one of your creations?
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