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Posted on 04/10/2007 5:41:12 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
The accelerated production schedule for The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader appears to be going ahead as planned. As we reported earlier, Walden Media and Disney are hoping to release Narnia films roughly one year apart from each other. Given the complexity of these big-budget, effects-laden films, that means overlapping production schedules. Dawn Treader is expected to begin filming soon after the Prince Caspian shoot ends, utilizing a separate crew and director.
Sources have supplied additional confirmation of this to the NarniaWeb.com website, stating that a new director has already been chosen for the third film, and that pre-production work is underway. Exactly who has been selected to helm the picture remains secret for now, but it's been known for some time that Andrew Adamson would probably step down as director after Prince Caspian was completed.
While production on Caspian wraps up the New Zealand portion of its schedule and heads to the Czech Republic and Slovenia, Walden Media's location scouts are already on the prowl seeking out prime locales for the Dawn Treader's fantastic voyage. That story takes place largely at sea and on various tropical islands, and regions that have been suggested as potential shooting locations include the Australian coast, the Bahamas, and Malta.
Currently, if nobody knows, they are shooting the sequel to Narnia across the pond. They'll have this massive bridge sequence, which is from the book, according to NarniaWeb.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader was the first Narnia book I read in the 5th grade. And my favorite.
Hey, the name of the little spaceship in my novel is the Dawn Treader. Tip of the hat to Lewis Carroll.
As long as both movies do Reepicheep justice I will be happy. Screw him up like the centaurs and I am going to be an unhappy camper.
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I hope they continue to do justice to the books as they did with the first one. My daughter and her friends are watching as I type.
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Me too! I *love* the before-and-after Eustace, Reep, and I can’t wait to see the silly Dufflepuds— yay!!
Oh, the Dufflepuds will be great (that is one of the funniest parts of the book.) I’m curious how they do the Island Where Dreams Come True/ The Dark Island — one of the most haunting (no pun intended) and beautiful parts of the book (or in all of CS Lewis’s catalog, IMOP). A lesser director could really mangle the scene.
Wonderful news - but it certainly would be a challenge for the film makers. The illustrations of “Dawn Treader” were especially exquisite, and I wonder how the film could evoke the same things.
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