In an interview with Moviehole concerning her new film Constantine, Tilda Swinton mentions her work in the upcoming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. “I’m really convinced that it will be exactly what it should be, which is a classical, very cinematic adaptation of that book. It’s got a really 3D Technicolor, Wizard of Oz feel about it and one of the things that I think is very radical about what Andrew’s done, is he is not interested in special effects anymore so everything’s real, so you have real creatures. In other words, you don’t have, as in Lord of the Rings, 500 extras that are doubled up to make 7,000. but actually have all of those people in all of those suits, being all of those mythical creatures,” says Swinton. “It was really good fun…”
Interview: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Tilda Swinton