UPDATE - Narnia Title Change & King Kong

Scooper 'Alex' discovered some interesting info posted on the official website for the New Zealand Film and Video Technicians (NZF&VTG).

According to site, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is possibly going to be titled "The One Hundred Year Winter". It is to be produced by Frozen Lake Productions and will shoot from July to December 2004. Pre-production started in mid October.

Also, the site says that director Peter Jackson's King Kong looks to be starting production in mid-2004 for a December 14, 2005 release date.

UPDATE: 'SR Hadden' sent us an update about what the site above said on The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

I worked at Walden Media, the company behind Narnia, and have and update/correction for you.

The film will NOT be called "The Hundred Year Winter." That is their codename, ala "Blue Harvest" for Return of the Jedi. All materials have been marked as such except the script, but I was told this first hand.

Additionally, the script was lying around the office, and while I didn't have a chance to read it, I did read some of the correspondences between the various executives about the state of the script - Ann Peacock's draft. Generally speaking, most of them weren't happy with it, and despite casting going on for the children (they've got a huge collection of albums full of potentials), they're still doing heavy, heavy rewriting.