I'm really looking forward to the HHB film, but I think they really need to do a great job. Most importantly, they need to cast the main characters right. There's so much potential for great character interaction. Also, regarding the battle at Anvard, they shouldn't go too far, but I do think they should make it more exciting. In the book, the battle was almost devoid of tension (primarily because it was being described from afar, by a completely apathetic character).

Only one thing, please do not pull another Legolas stunt on Susan, do not make her fight in this film please I want to see Susan canon to the books this time.

Warrior wants this movie to be filmed on Mars.

So I was watching a foriegn film the other day when we went out to dinner and it had pretty cool desert scenes, more of for something in the begining of the film... (you can ignore the cart, horse, and man dressed in pink ) I still like the idea of an Australian desert, I just wanted to throw this out there.

For the battle of Anvard, I was thinking the same thing, TheGreatBug. I'm kinda leaning towards making more of Rabadash's men coming, but nothing on an 'epic' scale.

The idea of using the Australian desert is a great one, Warrior! Those photos are what I had pictured when I first read HHB too!

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.

Actually, I think that 13 would be the perfect age for Aravis. It's old enough that she's not a little kid, but young enough that it's still weird for her to get married, at least from the perspective of western audiences (I got my first serious marriage proposal when I was 13). Since Shasta is supposed to be slightly older than she is, 14 would be right for him.

I agree that the tension between the two of them during most of the movie shouldn't be sexual/romantic. In the books they dislike and mistrust each other because of the differences in their social classes. She's a cultured aristocratic snob who's had it easy most of her life. He's an uncouth pauper who's childhood has been little better than slavery. That all on it's own would make for interesting character dynamics in the film. Now I actually have no problem with hints of attraction between them at the end of the movie after the battle. It would foreshadow their eventual marriage.

Shasta is supposed to be slightly older than she is, 14 would be right for him

How do you work that one out? I would have thought they were about the same age, give or take. In fact being the same age says a lot about the dynamics between them, the camaraderie which developed between them, why they finally accepted each other as valued equals and points to their eventual marriage.

The point of Aravis being only 13 is lost on me. I think that legally, emotionally and medically it is a bad idea to have girls even as old as 15 marrying so young. Especially to such a horrible old man as Ahoshta.

The legal age for marriage where I live is 18, being the age of majority. Anything below that age would be acceptable to me as a good age for Aravis, who at least got some sort of education, since she was high born.

In the book Shasta says, "You're not grown up, I don't believe you're any older than I am. I don't believe you're as old. How can you be getting married at your age?

It's worth noting that he doesn't say "How can you be getting married to some creepy old guy," but "How can you be getting married?" Period. About your comments on women under 18, in the book, they never say their ages. People don't walk around with a number on their heads. You have to go on physical characteristics to gauge a person's age range. It can be difficult to tell the difference between a very young woman, just old enough to be getting married (legally that is), and a girl in her mid-late teens. That's why I think it's important that the girl who plays Aravis shouldn't be finished with puberty, which for girls, usually ends in the mid-teens.

I like this as Calormene fashion (in the movie):

Well I honestly hope that they don't resort to the undraggoning method they used in VDT, in the part where Aravis is clawed by Aslan. I can just see the adaption now. Aslan claws the sand and Aravis falls down so we can have a PG version for 7 year old's. I think the filmakers should take a risk and approach Narnia the way it was written. Oh yeah no green mist temptation scene, and Tilda doesn't need to be written in for popcorn box office numbers. Sorry this is my favorite book and if it gets made it should be done justly and properly.

Sorry, this is my favourite of the Narnia movies, and yet I think it will be the least likely Narnia film to be made.

1. There is a controversy surrounding it because of how people have perceived the way the Calormenes are depicted. Though I'd agree that the delightful Etruscan pictures Anhun supplied a few posts up might put that controversy to rest.

2. No Tilda Swinton and do they really want to bring back the Pevensies?

3. No Eustace and Jill.

4. The film makers seem to be half-committed to making SC at some stage, and perhaps SC and LB might be made back-to-back, since both have Eustace and Jill. Where does that leave HHB?

5. It seems like MN probably will be the next movie to be made but it still is only a probablility, not a fact. Even if it is made and produced, there is no guarantee there will be other Narnia movies.

6. Saying MN does well, seeing as it hasn't been done beforehand, then the next movie most definitely will be SC, since that one is the other movie that is being argued about currently.

7. HHB is an oddity in that it is a wholely Narnian movie. If the movies get that far, it might be the lead movie in a TV spin-off, eg Tales of Narnia, but I can also see it missing out altogether.

Just my view. I hope I am wrong.

#1: Please make sure that the talking horses CGI looks like Phillip's did, not like a cartoon!

#2: Please refrain from all romance between Shasta and Cor romance until the end!

#3: No witches!!!

#4: Don't put too much of the Pevensies in there, but don't ignore them! Follow the book, basically.

Lu

#2 LOL - I should hope there's no bro-mance to begin with. For shame, this is based on a childrens' novel by a Christian!

I think she meant Shasta/Cor and Aravis

I agree whole heartedly with #1... real horses please

6. Saying MN does well, seeing as it hasn't been done beforehand, then the next movie most definitely will be SC, since that one is the other movie that is being argued about currently.

7. HHB is an oddity in that it is a wholely Narnian movie.

Well, no one expected MN to be made before SC (except maybe a few really smart people), so perhaps Walden will surprise us again by doing HHB at an unexpected time. Maybe they'll even do it before SC.

If they do HHB after MN, then the film makers are virtually committed to doing the remainder of the movies in chronological order, and that is their logic for doing MN next, now that the three Pevensie movies have finished. But there is a snag to this arrangement. Three of the Pevensies are in HHB, none in SC and three are in LB.

I think she meant Shasta/Cor and Aravis

I'm sure that is what was meant. However, Edmund and Susan Pevensie do play a part in HHB, and Lucy a much smaller part. If there is any 'romance' at all, it should be in the initial meetings of Susan and Rabadash to explain how she got into that mess at Tashbaan and why Rabadash felt justified at using the excuse of his being jilted to invade Archenland. Also why Shasta got the reception he did from King Lune.