{"id":1148,"date":"2007-12-21T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-white-witch-returns-in-prince-caspian\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:32:00","slug":"the-white-witch-returns-in-prince-caspian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/the-white-witch-returns-in-prince-caspian.html","title":{"rendered":"The White Witch returns in Prince Caspian"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xppBbDuMI\/AAAAAAAAA8Q\/jmV2q0OhAYE\/s1600-h\/narnia-caspiantilda.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xppBbDuMI\/AAAAAAAAA8Q\/jmV2q0OhAYE\/s400\/narnia-caspiantilda.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.narniaweb.com\/news.asp?id=1375&amp;dl=14691875\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">NarniaWeb<\/a> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/newsbites-munich-watchmen-food.html#5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tilda Swinton<\/a>, who played the White Witch in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a><\/i> (2005), was spotted recently on the set of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/glimpse-into-prince-caspian-movie.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prince Caspian<\/a><\/i>, where the photo above was taken.  If she wasn\u2019t just paying the crew a visit \u2014 if she\u2019s actually going to appear in the film \u2014 then either they\u2019re shooting brand-new flashback scenes, or the scene from the book where certain characters talk about bringing the White Witch back from the dead is going to be pushed beyond the conversation stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait.  Apparently that was the White Witch glimpsed behind the ice in <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809244324\/video\/5318792\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the teaser<\/a> that came out recently.  Until now, the only version I had seen \u2014 and I wasn\u2019t looking at it closely \u2014 was some low-rez YouTube thing and I must have assumed the figure reaching out to Caspian was another nymph or something.  There\u2019s no mistaking who it is in the high-def version, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xu0RbDuNI\/AAAAAAAAA8Y\/6RjqEOyVVIo\/s1600-h\/narnia-caspianwitch1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xu0RbDuNI\/AAAAAAAAA8Y\/6RjqEOyVVIo\/s400\/narnia-caspianwitch1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xu0RbDuOI\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/h0ROkK6ZTZo\/s1600-h\/narnia-caspianwitch2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2xu0RbDuOI\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/h0ROkK6ZTZo\/s400\/narnia-caspianwitch2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAR 15 UPDATE:  Tilda Swinton has told the <a href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2008\/03\/14\/tilda-swinton-insists-shes-not-in-narnia-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">MTV Movies Blog<\/a> she isn\u2019t in the film, even though she appears to be in the trailer: \u201cThey have my image in their computer bank. They can do whatever they want. . . . They can make me sell whatever they want.\u201d  The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narniaweb.com\/news.asp?id=1501&amp;dl=16038185\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">NarniaWeb<\/a> take this to mean that her visit to the set \u201cwas perhaps just a friendly visit and not for a day of shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APR 2 UPDATE:  On the other hand, the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/inside\/mainattraction\/080401\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Disney Insider<\/a><\/i> is now reporting that Tilda Swinton \u201cportrays the vile White Witch in both films\u201d \u2014 and since it\u2019s their studio, they should know, right?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NarniaWeb reports that Tilda Swinton, who played the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), was spotted recently on the set of Prince Caspian, where the photo above was taken. 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