Work on the upcoming Narnia movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe marches onward, despite continued disinterested from me. Today they’ve trickled out their next bit of production news via AICN, in order no doubt to keep their movie’s name in our headlines continuously. I wonder if the people running geek movies like this every think of that? I’m sure they do, which means AICN and all their “anonymous super-scoops” are for the most part a tool of corporate America. But then aren’t we all in one way or another?

The point of this story has been lost. Let me find it again. Oh yes, the voice of Aslan has been cast, and it won’t be any of the usual manly voice suspects (Alec Baldwin I’m looking at you). Instead they’ve cast Brian Cox, who is probably thanking a personal deity right now that he was in Troy instead of Alexander. Perhaps it might have been more poetically symbolic had Jim Caviezel been cast as the voice of the Narnia super-Lion, but Cox will work, if he can get rid of that slur that sometimes creeps into his rasp.

Check back here next week when no doubt we’ll be updating you on yet another Chronicles of Narnia marketing release… er scoop. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe hits theaters December 9, 2005 which not-so-coincidentally is precisely one year from today.

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