If you are a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien you probably know the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies were filmed in New Zealand. But do you also know that the first two films of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ were also filmed in NZ? Personally I loved ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ better than all three movies, but will settle for a night of hot chocolate and Narnia movies any time.
If you have seen the second movie ‘Prince Caspian – The Return to Narnia’ you would probably recognise this location as the beach on which the Pevensies are magically whisked to from the railway station in England. The Coromandel Peninsula’s Mares Leg Cove, the Southern section of Cathedral Cove, a spectacular beach on the eastern shore of the peninsula.
An anecdote on this – in ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ Cair Paravel, the great castle on the Eastern Sea of Narnia, was created by computer-generated imagery superimposed on the cliff tops of Purakaunui Bay in the Catlins (which is in the South Island of New Zealand). Interesting to see how a few hundred years later the castle moved up north…
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