For actresses there's Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver (For your info, I looked some of these up on the web!)
I am personally 5"7 (nearly, getting there) and I agree that Jill should be tall, and Puddleglum really! tall (might be a little problem, maybe http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2017161/ )
And I also like your idea about the HP/LB darkness
AWESOME THINKING

Thanks Jill Pole! It is nice to see taller actresses around as there are ALOT of shorter ones (not that anything is wrong with that )
I'm around 5''7 too, so i guess we are kind of seeing this from the same point of view!
Also, I was thinking more about the HP/LB similarities and there are quite a few really, so maybe that is a direction they might go in!
thanks

I think it is actually quite rare to have a short actress (unless you count Snooki, which I personally don't!)
I measured other day, I am 167cm so I have still a little bit to grow

I think that if they are going to finish the Narnia movies, they will have to also realize that it is a children's book, and even though some of the themes in the books and films are quite grown up, the underlying story is for children
So they will have to balance the darkness quite a lot, and maybe use the music or some CGI to bring in the darkness.
The books also have value for a teenage audience, but that is lost on most of the teens of today

^ It was lost on most of teens in Lewis' day too.

Well they were weird, its better than most of the other books around then:
for example, "The Little White Horse"
Oh, I'm 13, I am moving from London, everyone loves me, I have a special room in a castle... etc etc....
Narnia had morals and the contemplation of good and evil!

If for some odd reason Will does not come back, SC will do horribly. The audience has already connected and fallen in love with Will Poulter as Eustace. To recast would mean that the audience would have to reconnect with a strange actor, who would unavoidably be compared to Will and complained about. The original is almost always more liked.

Jill is supposed to be fairly small anyway, what's wrong with Will being tall? They'll just have to find a Puddleglum who's even taller.

And if they can't find a taller Puddleglum, they can always find someone who uses stilts or use specially made shoes and cgi the legs... Didn't they make special shoes for Tilda to make her taller anyway?

Well a normal sized girl would still be considered small next to Eustace. And also *sneaky grin* you could make the set not to scale, and slightly bigger to make it seem that the two are still kids

I always thought of Jill as being taller than Eustace.

Really? Why so?

puddleglum32, I also thought she might be taller, or at least the same height as Eustace, because I think that she just seems like a tall person, thats the image i get in my head, like a LoTR type character, but obviouslyy not at all like in LoTR, just there are certain moments when that is the sort of air I got.

I had always pictured them as being around the same height for some reason. However, I think in my mind I picture them as being younger than they actually would be on film, so in that case, I think Jill would be shorter than Eustace on film. This is especially true as Will has had a growth spurt. I also think that if they recast Eustace, the film would not do as well. I would still go see it, but would probably not like it as much if Will wasn't in it

Those of you who think Jill might be taller probably saw the BBC Narnia's, in which she is taller. Personally I always found that rather odd, as in the book it gives the impression that she's on the smaller side. All the same, I really liked the girl who played Jill in BBC's Silver Chair.

Camilla Power is awesome!!
I agree, I think that Jill should be a little shorter if not the same height as Eustace and make the set a little larger than life...

Jill_Poll wrote:
Really? Why so?

I think she would be taller just because of the way she talks. She has the courage to snap at him.