First Glimpses of 'The Voyage of The Dawn Treader'
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Over the holiday weekend, we received our first official glimpse of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This is a film that hasn't really attracted a lot of fervent interest or rumor-mongering, something that seems to have marked the ill-fated series as a whole.
But Dawn Treader is coming, with Michael Apted at the helm and 20th Century Fox directing its trade wind. I know I've stated it a million times before, but this is one Narnia installment that I'm desperate to see. It was my favorite of the books, and the film might actually work on a level that Wardrobe and Caspian haven't. There was more to be mined from those first two books than the films managed, but Dawn Treader is rather glossy and adventurous, a series of "What's that -- oh no!" moments that should make for a pretty entertaining movie. Sure, there's the heavy handed morality tale of selfish cousin Eustace, but that's a pretty simple thing to translate since it's a lesson as old as Grimm's -- bad kids are punished, regardless of religious inclination!
Narnia has chosen to launch its first images in a very unlikely place: Facebook. A production blog has started up there, and the first images were tacked onto the end of it. It should be fun to follow along with as we inch closer to its release date of December 2010. Meanwhile, the photos are in the gallery, and they certainly are pretty to look at.
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11-30-2009 @ 5:28PM
Felicia said...
Why ill-fated? The first one was successful. There's no reason to think this one won't be.
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11-30-2009 @ 5:16PM
Liam said...
In your first sentence why do you say the first two movies were "ill fated"? Looking back at the box office numbers it seems that both movies did damn good.
Narnia: Wardrobe 745 million worldwide
Narnia: Caspian 420 million worldwide
That's over a BILLION dollars for the first 2 Chronicle of Narnia movies. What does it have to make to satisfy movie critics these days? A gazillion dollars? Then, if it makes a gazillion dollars, you guys would poo poo that movie too because it was probably made by Michael Bay or Spielberg. Dawn Treader will be out in the next year or two and I'll take my kids, like I did for the first two installments, and we will enjoy it!
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11-30-2009 @ 5:31PM
Elisabeth said...
Well, Disney dumped the series, and Fox picked it up. Voyage of the Dawn Treader is reportedly the last one anyone (even Fox) is willing to make. It may have made money, but no one writing the checks seems to have considered it a critical, popular, or financial success.
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12-01-2009 @ 8:02AM
nhaskell said...
I'm with you. Being picked up by Fox is more than enough to label it ill-fated.
2-04-2010 @ 2:47PM
eilyn said...
I hope this will not be the last of the series because I look forward to watching the Narnia series till The Last battle! So, to all Narnia lovers, please support this movie. We want to see the other books gracing the big screen, right? And I personally want to see the Pevensies all grown up and battling in the Last Battle, which was one of my favorite books along with this one. For Narnia! :-)
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