The icy wastes of ‘Narnia’ were filmed further east near the Polish border, in Adrspach National Park, Trutnov, where sandstone outcrops have weathered into a dramatic vista of towers and terraces, between the towns of Adrspach and Teplice. ![]() As you can see, with sheer faces and numerous crevices, the cliffs provide an ideal spot for experienced rock climbers. The forbidding rock formations through which Lucy ( Georgie Henley) is led on the way to the home of Mr Tumnus ( James McAvoy) are Tiské steny (The Tisá Walls), towering above the village of Tisá, about 50 miles north of Prague. There wasn’t enough dependably deep snow in New Zealand to represent ‘Narnia’s’ permanent winter, so the production moved to Europe, and the Czech Republic. ![]() ![]() The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe film location: winter in Narnia: Tiské stěny, Tisa, Czech Republic | Photograph: Wikimedia / ZpĬonfined indoors by constant rain, it’s not long before the Pevensie children (they’re certainly not ‘kids’, are they?) discover that the wardrobe standing alone in a disused room offers a portal into another world. You can see the real Kentwell on screen in the 1996 screen version of another children’s classic, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows (as ‘Toad Hall’), but more famously in the far less benign Witchfinder General, with Vincent Price as the notorious Matthew Hopkins. Its design is based on the moated Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall, at Long Melford on the A134, three miles north of Sudbury in Suffolk, England. Although the gardens of the professor’s house are Monte Cecilia Park, the grounds of the Pah Homestead, 72A Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough, to the south of the city, the house itself is nothing more than a digital invention. It’s back to Auckland to find where the Pevensies stay with Professor Kirke ( Jim Broadbent). Opened in 1862, and having operated for over 100 years before closing to main line services, Highley is now the station for the Severn Valley Railway’s Engine House Visitor Centre.įrom Highley the train journeys north, crossing the Oldbury Viaduct en route to Bridgnorth – and that’s all there is of England. ‘Pewsey Station’, where the first evacuees receive a warm welcome on the train’s first stop, is Highley Railway Station on the SVR line in Shropshire. The subsequent railway journey to ‘Coombe Halt’ is the only section filmed in the UK, on the the Severn Valley Railway, a full-size, standard-gauge steam railway, running 16 miles between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire, also seen in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The film’s New Zealand North Island base was the old Hobsonville Air Base in northwestern Auckland, where most of the spectacular sets were built, including London’s ‘Paddington Station’, as the Pevensie children are evacuated from the capital to avoid the bombing of the city during WWII. ![]() Lewis’s thinly veiled Christian allegory also used the stark, rocky landscapes of the Czech Republic. Close friends CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien both wrote epic fantasy novels inspired by the English countryside, so when it came to bringing the Lord Of The Rings and The Chronicles Of Narnia to the big screen, it was inevitable the films would be shot in – New Zealand.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |