Liam Neeson is on a good roll at the moment, you just have to look at the past few movies he’s been in and the list of movies to come, he’s certainly top of the list for imposing characters. So that trend continues with the news from Coming Soon that he’s replacing Brian Cox as Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Cox has a really impressive voice and it seems just perfectly suited for the character, and at first I thought that maybe Neeson’s voice is too soft, not imposing enough, not carrying that tone of “I could turn on you any second”. After all Cox played the first, and in my mind the best, screen outing of Hannibal. Still you can hear the match when you listen, the warmth, depth and gruffness that would match with the character. I don’t think it’s that bad a move.
What of the movie though? It’s been surprisingly quiet of late. I have high hopes for this series, could it be another Rings style adaptation?
