Comments on: Fox To Pick Up Dawn Treader

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:11:24 +0000

I meant UNSATISFIED.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:10:30 +0000

LWW was an excellent movie. Even my brother Stephen who loved the books and HATED the BBC verisons really ENJOYED Disney & Walden’s version of it. He was very disappointed with PC though. I also didn’t like it and neither did my brother JP. It really didn’t stay true to the book. It may have been good for someone who had never read the books before, but for those die hard fans who LOVE the books were mostly unstisfied with it. I hope VDT turns out great.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:42:39 +0000

I loved LWW, but was disappointed with PC. It was such a great story. I felt the movie concentrated too much on the battle scenes and left out so much of the story. I love VDT and hope it is done well.

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:23:45 +0000

I must be the only one around here that thinks that liberties taken with Prince Caspian made it a much better movie than its predecessor. TLWW had it’s Christian subtext watered down to almost entire non-existence in the Walden Media adaption.

I also don’t know why people compare this to Eragon. Think of “The Dark Is Rising”, an absolutely amazing book written in the 70s. The movie had close nothing similar to it and the book. NOTHING. And that was the reulst last time that Walden Media and Fox got together. Who cares about Eragon, when their work (together!) on TDIR movie was 1000000x worse?

By: troy

troy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:18:04 +0000

I was diappointed in the Prince Caspian you should stay as true to the story for memories sake.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:30:18 +0000

I talked to the director and the writers of Prince Caspian, and they actually know the book better than than any of us. They went through page by page, line by line, and start by creating index cards with every character, and their emotions throughout the story. They create cards for every scene and list every character that appears in each scene. And they create cards with every interesting line of dialog. At that point they look at the sequences that would cause them to go over budget and start trimming. Then they started putting things together and writing. They wrote a script that was nearly identical to the book, save for the school-house (I believe) and it wasn’t working because it was full of flashbacks. As soon as they took out the flashbacks, everything finally came together.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:20:37 +0000

I so hope you are right, Eragon was a horridly developed movie compared to the detail put into the book. Eragon should have been done like the Lord of the Rings in full scope, not 1.5 hours. I hope the Dawntreader gets the screen time it is deserving. They have been made cheap before by BBC and I will not watch those painful movies again. Please do these right!!!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:10:30 +0000

I hope they return the movies to the original story as told by CS Lewis and don’t add a bunch of “hollywood” stuff. Did any of the directors for Prince Caspian even read the book? Voyage of the Dawntreader is my FAVORITE BOOK!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T MESS WITH THE STORY LINE!!!

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:03:25 +0000

Well, let’s start with the female dwarfs and fawns.

They didn’t show any? There are some female dwarfs in the background in the scene when they first enter Aslan’s How. As for the fawns, I don’t remember if they appear or not. The centaurs were darker, sure, but that was one of the families of centaurs. There were centaurs of many colors in this one.

Peter’s anger was primarily because his humility had turned into pride, and he didn’t appreciate being treated like a child after having been an adult for so long. His father hadn’t yet returned from the war, and he was acting as surrogate father to his brothers and sisters, and it caused a lot of stress. What he was going through was actually a realistic psychological response to the situation that he had found himself in.

He and Susan didn’t know they weren’t coming back to Narnia until they had a talk with Aslan before they left. They would not be coming back because of a couple of reasons: They had learned all that they needed to learn from their time in Narnia, and they were getting too old to return. There are others that need to help in Narnia now, including Lucy and Edmund. Peter and Susan could have been help, but then Lucy and Edmund wouldn’t learn what they need to.

Susan couldn’t stay with Caspian because that’s definitely not what happens in the books. The third film will cover Caspian’s future, so don’t worry about that.

By: Janice

Janice — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:06:50 +0000

Prince Caspian had a darker look & feel, with more violence, but it was artfully done so there wasn’t any blood & guts. It wasn’t explained why the centaurs were darker & greasy-looking, & if the Narnians were breeding “like cockroaches,” why haven’t they shown any female dwarfs or fawns? I also noticed an undercurrent of anger from Moseley (Peter) that came through on film. Was it the knowledge that he wasn’t coming back for the next film? The ending of Caspian bummed me out – why couldn’t Susan stay, to make a life with Caspian? It ruined the whole movie for me, & now I learn that she & Peter aren’t coming back. What’s the reason for it? I haven’t read the books, so if its in the book, then what’s the explanation? Other than that, I’ve enjoyed both movies, & look forward to the next.