NarniaFans spy Daniel sent us a link to a video which shows the Dawn Treader re-constructed inside the Warner Studios in Australia. Note the mention of a sword fight between stuntmen, Caspian, and Lucy which takes place in among some cool-looking statues.
Click here to watch the short clip, which is more about Australia’s film industry than Narnia, but is still interesting. Thanks, Daniel!
Dark Horizons has posted a list of the “notable films” that will be released in 2010. “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is included on that list. They write:
Best of all is the story, which lifts much of its basic outline from the best bits of Homer’s “The Odyssey”, is widely considered the best of all the ‘Narnia’ adventures. The script has been adapted by Richard LaGravenese (“A Little Princess,” “The Fisher King”) and Michael Petroni (“Til Human Voices Wake Us,” “Queen of the Damned”) and shooting went smoothly in Queensland, Australia throughout much of the last few months of 2009.
The only downside here could be Walden itself which has been keeping production rather quiet and didn’t have any set visits to the film, even for locally based journalists like myself which has surprised more than a few people. A decently updated production blog is online which is a nice start, but the buzz needs to begin early to make sure this doesn’t go the way of ‘Caspian’. Lets hope the film becomes the hit it could be, because the next book ‘The Silver Chair’ is also one of the best of the series and deserves a big-budget adaptation.
I, for one, couldn’t agree more about “The Silver Chair.” Read what else Dark Horizons had to say about VDT and the Narnia films by clicking here.
There has been more trouble getting The Voyage of the Dawn Treader going into production with rising violence in Mexico as of late. Scheduled to begin filming production at Baja Studios next month, presumably set building and pre-production, the drug war violence may have led Disney and Walden Media to begin a search for another location. Baja Studio is the home of the water tank that was used for Titanic and Master And Commander.
Word has it that the production may move down under, as film industry officials in NSW and Queensland are chasing the movie. The Sunshine State is favoured to win because of the water tank at Warner Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast. The Dawn Treader needs studios, beaches, jungles and other locations for a five-month shoot.
In the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel, Edmund, Lucy and their cousin Eustace return to the magical land of Narnia through a painting then set sail with King Caspian to find seven lost lords.
Briton Michael Apted, who made Amazing Grace, The World Is Not Enough and the Seven Up documentary series, is directing with returning roles for young Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley. Also back will be Ben Barnes, who was Prince Caspian in the last instalment.
The producers are known to have investigated Australia as a location before they settled on Mexico.
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