Eddie Izzard to voice Reepicheep in Prince Caspian
Eddie Izzard, the well known British comedian and actor is to use his vocal talents in the role of Reepicheep in Disney’s adaptation of CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian. Reepicheep will be brought to life using computer-generated animation with Izzard supplying the voice. Eddie Izzard read and fell in love with the CS Lewis books as a child, The Magician’s Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being amongst his favourites.
Reepicheep appears in Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and also in The Last Battle. He is a large, dark, talking mouse who carries a rapier, and wears a red plume tucked in his golden circlet.Reepicheep is descended from a group of mice who gnawed through the ropes that bound Aslan to the Stone Table after the White Witch had killed him; as a result of their service, they became talking mice.
And looking again at Reepicheep I realised that he has always been recorded in a high, slightly camp voice because of the overt language that he uses and his chivalrous nature, but actually he is a murderous little so-and-so of a mouse. I see him as the Mad Max of mice.
Eddie Izzard
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Posted: April 26th, 2008
Author: Lee
Categories: CS Lewis
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the makers of Prince Caspian kept to the original story better than i would have expected… i had heard they were going to make it into a silly pure-action flick, but thankfully this was not so much the case
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