News About the Beaver Lodge Set

"Much of the inspiration for the beavers' environment, both in the interior, shot on stage 3 at Henderson Studios and the exterior, filmed as part of a vast snowscape at the sprawling Kelly Park Studio in Wainui north of Auckland, was taken from watching beavers in their natural habitat in the 1988 IMAX film Beavers, directed by Stephen Low. In a climactic scene in that film, a bear tears apart a beaver dam; close examination of the destruction provided a strong basis for the scene in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where a pack of the White Witch's wolves infiltrates and tears through the lodge looking for the Pevensies..."

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IGN Film Force, 26.10.04