Narnia Talk: Mostly About Mosely

WILLIAM Moseley reprises his role as Narnia’s High King, Peter, who returns to the enchanted land with his three siblings to help Prince Caspian save Narnia from tyranny under the reign of the evil King Miraz, in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.” The sequel represents Peter’s final appearance in the series. Moseley (now 21 years old) had his first motion picture starring role in the first “Narnia” film, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” for which he earned nominations for the Saturn and Young Artists Awards. The young actor says his anticipation and anxiety to get back in front of the movie cameras echoed what his character Peter endured in the time between his fifteen-year reign of Narnia and his return to the kingdom in the new story. Just like his character, the handsome British native returned to secondary school. “Finishing the first film was an amazing experience,” Moseley says. “Then it was all taken away. Even though I didn’t react the same way Peter does, I can really understand how he feels.” Once the senior sibling returns to Narnia, “he becomes slightly arrogant,” the actor notes of his character. “There's fighting within the group. Peter cannot accept Caspian. His plans are not set from his heart, but from his ego. Even when he doubts himself, he still is too stubborn to back down and accept that he might be wrong. And ultimately, he pays the highest price. In the process, Moseley says, his character becomes a man. “When he gets back to Narnia, it’s 1,300 years later and people don't know he's a high king. They just see a boy. Peter has to prove who he is to the Narnians.” “When we cast William as Peter, he was just 15 and had never done anything like this before,” director Andrew Adamson notes. “William’s transformation was not dissimilar to that of his character Peter in the story, from this 17-year-old boy into a young man. I don’t think he’d even been on a movie set before. He was just this really great kid you wanted to be your big brother. And now, William has turned out to be a handsome and capable young man.” Moseley believes moviegoers will see the Pevensies in a new light in “Prince Caspian.” “Peter and Susan especially. These two had challenges in the first film, but nothing on this level. I think audiences will be surprised and engaged by both the physical battles and the emotional battles endured by our characters.” "They've all grown up really well,” Adamson says, sounding like a proud parent of the young actors portraying the Pevensie clan. “A large reason for me to do this again was working with the same children. There is this wonderful relationship between the kids, how they became a family and how they let us become a part of that family. There's change in very positive ways in growing up, but I'd like to say the movie didn’t change who they are, which I'm really happy about.” Opening soon across the Philippines , “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International through Columbia Pictures.

Wahlberg Makes His Mark

ACADEMY Award nominee Mark Wahlberg stars in the hard-hitting thriller The Happening and the action-packed Max Payne where he is both plagued with uncertainties brought about by conspiracy and the obscure.

In the heart-pounding thriller The Happening where the paranoia begins with no clear warning, Wahlberg stars as science teacher Elliot Moore whose family is on the run to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. In the midst of a marital crisis, Elliot and wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) hit the road heading for Pennsylvania where they hope they’ll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing deadly attacks. Yet it soon becomes apparent that no one or nowhere is safe. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities.

Caught in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is another Hollywood A-list player John Leguizamo (Ice Age).

Wahlberg’s defenses steps a notch higher in the action-packed video-game-to-movie adaptation where he plays the titular role of Max Payne. In the movie, Wahlberg is a tough New York cop whose wife and baby are killed by thugs high on a designer drug called Valkyr. Devastated, Payne joins the DEA and goes undercover with the mob to find the source of the drug. Framed for the murder of his partner and hunted down by both the mob and the police, he is forced to wage a one-man war against crime.

Helmed by Ace director John Moore, Max Payne also stars Chris O’Donnell, Mila Kunis and Beau Bridges.

The Happening opens June 11 in R.P. theaters and Max Payne opens October this year in theaters from 20^th Century Fox; to be distributed by Warner Bros.