Neeson lends voice to Narnia movie

Ulster-born Liam Neeson is to join the Mouse Factory - that's the Walt Disney Pictures studio - to play a lion.

Neeson lends his voice to the character of Asian in the upcoming adaptation of CS Lewis' children's classic, The Chronicles of Narnia, due out in December.

Altogether fitting, of course, since Lewis was a fellow Ulsterman.

Neeson is also being talked up as a possible for the role of Abraham Lincoln in a proposed Stephen Spielberg bio of the legendary US President.