Gold Coast Film Studios will be busy this year, with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader only one of many projects filming there this year.   It’s very exciting to see filming ramping up so quickly, with the rumored start in only two days.  We will have to see what happens, however, as this article may move the start date closer to the end of the month.  We do know that Skandar Keynes is on the set, but he’s the only confirmed actor there, so far.

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I know that I’ve mentioned The Narnia Exhibition before, and quite a bit in the last year, but there’s always someone that hasn’t heard of it.  I received an email the other day from someone that has visited it at Kansas City’s Union Station, and written a review of the exhibit.  It’s a great exhibit, and this fan told me that she wanted to spend hours looking at the stuff that is there, especially the room with C.S. Lewis artifacts.  Having seen the exhibition myself, I must concur.  I really wanted to spend more time with the C.S. Lewis stuff, but knew that I had to move on.
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Producer Mark Johnson, who is currently working on many projects including The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, was recently on the other side of the camera for the third time.  He previously appeared in Good Morning, Vietnam and The Notebook.  He was also a producer on both films.  Most recently, he appeared as Uncle Pervis in the film My Sister’s Keeper.  For those who don’t know what the film is about, it is an adaptation of a novel of the same name, by Jodi Picoult.

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Welcome to Tumnus’s Book Shelf where we review any and all books related to Narnia and CS Lewis! For this weeks review, we will be looking at CS Lewis’s A Grief Observed.

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With filming coming up, the cast is now heading to Australia to begin filming the next great adventure based on the Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  Many of the crew have already been making their way to the sets there, as creature designer and make-up artist Howard Berger found his way there last week.  And now Skandar Keynes has found his way to Australia for filming.  He’ll be reprising his role as Edmund Pevensie in the film, wish starts shooting next week, potentially.

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Ben Barnes, who is currently preparing to return to the role of Caspian for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has been active in the film world since then.  While Bigga than Ben filmed prior to Prince Caspian, it released after, in the cinemas in the UK, and now it has been released onto DVD there as well.  It’s producer, Liz Holford, tells me that they are working on a deal to release the film in the United States, and I will be sure to update you when that deal occurs.  We’ve also got the first poster for Ben’s next film, Dorian Gray.  Take a look!

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Welcome to this week’s mailbag!  With all of the news and excitement from the last week, it’s hard to believe that the Dawn Treader is actually kicking into gear.  We’re getting our third Narnia film, folks, and that is very exciting.

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In the last few years, we’ve had a lot of lost manuscripts begin to surface from the likes of C.S. Lewis’ friend J.R.R. Tolkien.  From The Children of Hurin to The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, the wealth of literature from Tolkien has been expanded greatly, and it’s about time that something new from Lewis has been discovered.  Communications Professor Steven Beebe of Texas State discovered a lost manuscript fragment in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.

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Aslan’s Country has posted an interview with Narnia storyboard artist Tom Nelson.  He speaks about his time working on the Narnia films, as well as working with both Andrew Adamson and Michael Apted.  He also goes into how he got into storyboarding as well as the process of storyboarding.  He’s storyboarded on both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  It’s a great little interview, and I hope that you enjoy it.

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It’s stories like this that really show just how cool the actors are, from the Chronicles of Narnia.  William Moseley is a true class act.  I was witness to him speaking to one of the less fortunate folks on a street in New York.  It really was a great display of his character as a person.  This is just another example as Chronicles of Narnia star William Moseley backed a series of pioneering children’s workshops.

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