Klingon Centaur

Posted on December 5, 2005 in Film

Suddenly I am not sanguine about the prospects for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy prompted the filming of C.W. Lewis’s classic fantasy cycle, but the problem was that it was the Disney Corporation which took on the challenge.

I give you the Klingon Centaur:

This is bad as only the makers of The Black Hole can butcher the screen realization of a well-known, epic novel. The ears are laughable, the cheekbones absurd, and the breastplate mainly designed to avoid the embarassing junction between man and horse. Is it a horse or merely naugahyde? The leather on its back has more life than the shiny sack in back.

Costume designer Isis Mussenden previously worked on Shrek 1 and 2. Such experience did not prepare her for live action. The producers managed to grab a few makeup technicians from LOTR, but without Peter Jackson’s direction and vision, they produced sorry creatures such as the one above.

Pity. I’d been looking forward to this. Perhaps I shall dig up the old Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series and watch that, instead.