According to the Internet Movie Database, Tony Nixon has been cast in the role of Rynelf, one of the sailors aboard the Dawn Treader vessel.  We’re going to try to verify this, but it is likely as smaller roles like this are very likely to go to mostly unknown actors.  Tony Nixon has also appeared in a made for TV movie called “Mermaids” which is kind of ironic, considering there are merfolk in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  We’ll have to wait and see what we hear from our sources to verify the actor, though it shouldn’t take too long.

This is all very exciting though, as the cast is coming together, and we should see more casting announcements all the time, as filming progresses!

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Walden Media has redesigned their website with great style.  Not only that, but it confirms the Dawn Treader logo that was posted in really low quality a few months ago (though on a black background, the rest is the same).

Walden.com has been designed with usability in mind, as well as ease of use for community involvement.  It’s a great site, that is definitely easier to navigate than ever before, and even includes social networking links at the bottom, as well as easier to locate teaching tools.

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This week has been flying by.  I just remembered that it was Thursday, and that I hadn’t written this week’s mailbag.  So I’m spending lunch time writing this week’s installment.  I spent Tuesday riding roller coasters at Cedar Point, and around that day there were some really huge things happening in the world of Narnia.  The third film started shooting, and we’ve gotten some great photos of the Dawn Treader nearing completion.  I’ve got a couple of e-mails to answer this week, but before I do, I just wanted to give a status update on the secret project.  I’m currently working on speed issues on it, but it’s moving forward.  I have guests up from Florida so it’s going to take me a little longer than I had initially anticipated, but I hope that it’s worth the wait.

And a quick update on Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man that just came in from a woman named Barbara:  “C.S. Lewis’s appreciation for Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man in correspondence is well known. Tolkien borrowed the idea for Ents from Chesterton’s The Trees of Pride!  I hope these facts were brought to your attention.” Thanks Barbara!

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Andrew Adamson, who directed the previous two Narnia films: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian prior to passing the reigns to Michael Apted for the third, has just written and will direct an adaptation of the Lloyd Jones novel, Mister Pip.  It is a film that is set in a province of Papua New Guinea, where director Adamson spent much of his childhood.

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Narnia Fans Spy ‘Craig’ sent us a report that, not only is the Dawn Treader in one piece, but they are preparing it to be moved.  There is not yet a mast on the ship, nor a crows nest or a sail, but it does look pretty spectacular.  It is a very long ship, as described, and I am sure there is plenty left to do on the ship.  However, now that it is all in one piece, things should be progressing even more quickly, as the last details like that are sometimes quicker as more teams are able to do their jobs to complete their own portions of the work.  This could include a paint job, as the ship currently looks like they just put it together.

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We’ve done our due diligence and discovered the roles that each of the new cast members is playing in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  Earlier today a press release went out announcing that Gary Sweet, Arthur Angel and Bruce Spence had joined the cast, but there was no word on the roles that they were to play in the film.  Now we’ve learned what those roles will be, and we couldn’t be happier with the choices for these characters.  They look like they’ll be formidable characters in the film.

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“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the third in the epic series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, will begin principal photography on location in Queensland, Australia, today – July 27, 2009. The production, a joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Walden Media, continues the franchise which commenced with

The spectacular, Oscar®-winning 2005 release, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and its 2008 follow-up, “Prince Caspian,” whose combined global box office gross tops $1.2 billion.

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Dr. Bob Beltz is a consultant for the owner of Walden Media.  He’s now working on bringing another C.S. Lewis classic to the big screen with The Great Divorce.  It has the potential to be a fantastic film.  It’s got the solid foundation of C.S. Lewis behind it, and if done well, could be a film classic.  Dr. Beltz wrote about it on his blog on Examiner.

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No sooner did producer Perry Moore say that Principal Photography started next week, than we got reports to the contrary from a number of people.  I haven’t been online in a few hours, though, so I wasn’t able to catch them until just now.

Director Michael Apted’s personal assistant Cort Kristensen says that filming started on July 22.  They’ve got the first shot of the movie’s schedule, though there is no word on what that shot is, or where it will fit in the movie.

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After months of wondering when they were going to start shooting, we now have solid word from producer Perry Moore.  He was speaking to someone at ComicCon who asked when filming would begin, and he was able to confirm that it starts next week in Australia.

@doorQdotCom: Voyage of the Dawn Treader starts principal, in Australia, next week, as per producer Perry Moore. #ComicCon

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