If Skandar really doesn't want to continue acting, then I'd rather see Peter take Edmund's place than see a "I don't want to be here" performance from Skandar. Of course, that means loads of trouble for LB, if the franchise makes it to that film.

Those deserts look really great! Looks familiar to Lewis description, and my fantasy (without the trees in the background)

If Skandar really doesn't want to continue acting, then I'd rather see Peter take Edmund's place than see a "I don't want to be here" performance from Skandar. Of course, that means loads of trouble for LB, if the franchise makes it to that film.

How would that create trouble for LB? Don't Edmund and Peter have really small roles in that? I don't think it would be a problem to bring Skandar back for a cameo, I just think that Edmund's role in HHB is too important to the feel of the movie to give it to someone who doesn't care. He carries a lot of the dialogue in the exciting "Plot to flee Tashbaan" scene.

@Timo: Western Australia is definitely the way to go. Here's the forest where Bree and Shasta travel in the first part of the movie (minus the picnic bench):

I don't know. It looks too distinctly Australian. Nice place though, by the looks of things (I haven't actually been to that part of WA).

Hmmm well I wouldn't say it looks distinctly Australian cuz it kinda reminds me of a park that I've been to once, and I've never been to Australia (although maybe the trees and stuff could have been the same species or something), but all of the Australia pictures look pretty cool

Parts of America grow eucalyptus plants that they introduced from Australia. Particularly in California.

There are ferns and lianas in that there bushland, not only Eucalypts. And you need to be an expert to figure out the difference between different Eucalypts anyway. In WA they also have Jarrah and Karri forests, not found elsewhere in Australia.

I don't know. It looks too distinctly Australian. Nice place though, by the looks of things (I haven't actually been to that part of WA).

It is quite an experience to go there. I hope that part in the photograph wasn't involved in the recent WA bushfires. Jarrah and Karri forests are natives that would be hard to replace.

It would be terrific if HHB could be filmed in Australia. We have heaps of desert as well.

Ohh I like the idea of useing the Austrailian Desert, but for the mountain/forest scene, I was kind of hoping they might use something in the US, particularly the Adirondacks (I am slightly biased here )

anyway I'll see if I can find a few picks...

but until then here's an article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Mountains

unfortunately none of the picks really show the forest not near a lake, which was what I was thinking

Those mountain ranges look great but they don't bring to my mind Archenland. Too American. Sorry.

Warrior wants this movie to be filmed on Mars.

Now, my concern with filming some of it in Australia and some of it in the US is that filming in multiple, far-flung locations adds a lot to the production cost.

Because HHB and TMN are my favourites, I really don't want them made into movies. But some things I would like...

1. Please do not make Aravis and Shasta's journey to Narnia an emotional journey to falling in love with one another. I don't really want to see awkwardness of liking each other during the course of the film. I'd rather they just became close friends in the close-to-end, and then we see them getting married later.

2. Do keep Aslan and Shasta's conversation just exactly like the book!!

3. Don't change anything as far as plot-wise goes. Please stick as close to the book as possible. This book means the world to me, and I would hate to see a movie lower down it's prominence.

Warrior wants this movie to be filmed on Mars.

Now, my concern with filming some of it in Australia and some of it in the US is that filming in multiple, far-flung locations adds a lot to the production cost.

Especially as the exchange rate isn't all that different these days between USA and Australia. In Australia that location photographed a few posts ago does look nice, plus there is plenty of desert, plenty of open country for Calormen, and New Zealand's South Island is a good nearby back up for anything more mountainous and English-looking. New Zealand so far is the best bet for all the series. And yes, both countries breed horses in a big way.

The only other option, if you insist on America being the location, is to film the whole lot in USA, which also has heaps of desert, I note. But better still would be maybe going straight to the source of C.S.Lewis' Narnia inspirations which is in UK and Northern Ireland, in the Mountains of Morne to do all the filming there, now that Harry Potter has finished .

I think the way to go is either film everything in the the western part of the US, or everything in WA, both have widely varied terrains in one general region.

I don't think they need to go as far as New Zealand for Mountains. I am so over New Zealand; it's been done to death, and besides we don't want Calormen and Archenland looking exactly like Narnia. . . at least I don't.

How's this (Western Australian) mountain for Stormness Head?

Now I would love to see SC with a Scottish back drop (I've gone over that topic in nit-picking detail on other threads). But, when it comes to HHB, I've never heard of the British desert.

HHB is really tricky, there are so many things that have to be done just right or they wont work, and there are some parts that are in the book that I'd really rather not see.

Horses: I pictured Bree as a dappled horse and Hiwn as a chestnut. A chestut would look a little to much like Ed's horse, Philip, who will (hopefully) be in the movie as well. So, I think Hiwn should be a some other color. I vote for a palomino, although, she might blend in too much with the desert to look good in a movie.

Shasta/Aravis: Shasta ought to be twelve and Aravis thirteen. I would say older, but that would leave to much room for romance and awkward situations. Both should be VERY ignorant about love (making it more ridiculous that Aravis was going to be married). Aravis Should be portrayed very much as the spoiled little girl who, should never have been forced to think of suicide. Such a situation would show up the Calormin system for what it was.

Pevensies: I actually liked the actors who played them at the end of LWW. They looked just right, although they might be a little too old by the time (if ever) we get to HHB. Grown up actors would keep the Pevensies more in the background of the story and let Shasta and Aravis be the stars.

I like Anhun's location idea for the first part of the journey. It's nice and tropic looking and not arid. Warrior 4 Jesus' pictures are wonderful! I didn't know such perfect deserts existed.

Shasta ought to be twelve and Aravis thirteen. I would say older, but that would leave to much room for romance and awkward situations.

I agree with you to a certain point, but I think I would enjoy it if they were both at least 14/15, because I've always felt that the book hinted that...

It would be great if the film makers can keep the bantering and fighting real core-honest, showing a clear dislike of each other, and not just fighting because they secretly like each other... ugh, it would really upset me if that was in the movie.