Official Trailer for 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Hits Web (3rd in Narnia Chronicles Series)

Christian Post ^ | 06/19/2010 | Josh Kimball

[delapaz]

I think there’s a very high likelihood that all 7 will eventually be made, but there will be changes in production personnel throughout.

Hollywood has so many original ideas right? And if someone’s already optioned the books, they make nothing if they don’t make a movie. The question is how much budget they’ll throw at the remaining four. Ideally we would like to see blockbuster level budgets, $200k+, but those have to do well in the theaters and great on DVD.

Obviously the thing to pray for is that they don’t hire Michael Bay for the next one.

[pgyanke]

They gutted the Christianity from Prince Caspian... and it was odd... and disappointing.

[The_Reader_David]

But the reasons you cite, the Dufflepuds aside, don’t make for a better adventure tale, qua adventure tale, but are among the hints at sacramental (or actually mystical) theology:

The Stone Knife as a venerable relic.

The presence of all times in one: the anamnesis of all liturgical commemorations which make present the thing recalled. (And note the Magician’s only food.)

Light as grace (cf. Christ’s Transfiguration, or the Conversation of Motovilov with St. Seraphim of Sarov.)

Of course, we can add Eustace’s “un-dragoning” as Baptism.

Wash out all the hints at the Holy Mysteries, and take the Dawn Treader as an adventure story only, and I’ll stand by preferring Caspian on that level, even while I’ll agree whole-heartedly with whoever suggested that Caspian was the weakest book in the septology.

[The_Reader_David]

All of them would make good movies, but unless the interchange with the "Queen of Underland" is scripted exactly as in the book, esp. Puddleglum's speech, there isn't much point in making a movie of The Silver Chair, and I have a feeling that Lewis's vision of the Narnian Antichrist as a fake put up by an alliance of convenience between Narnian secularists (Shift and Ginger) and Calormenes (thinly disguised Muslims) is a little too prescient and far too politically incorrect for The Last Battle to be made faithfully by Disney or any other big player in Hollywood.

[grey_whiskers]

Oh, as adventure, yes: unless you count the "traveller's tale" (Gulliver's Travels, natch) or the "wonders" as romantic, mystical adventure.

Pax./i>

BTW, you bring up an *excellent* point about the Magician's diet: cf Elwin Ransom's diet in That Hideous Strength ("You see, I live like the King in Curdie. It is a surprisingly pleasant diet.")

Curdie being George MacDonald's The King and Curdie; Lewis once remarked that he admired George MacDonald's writing (having been influenced towards conversion by reading Phantastes, and that he subsequently had had a quote from or reference to MacDonald in all of his subsequent writing); and (returning to my point about diet) the diet being that on which the King recuperated following his attempted poisoning at the hands of his ministers...

Cheers!

[little jeremiah]

What was the diet? I’m very curious.

I read “That Hideous Strength” two or three times, but not for years. I’ve been wanting that trilogy in my hands again, lately.