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It will be released in 2D, too. So, you don't have to see it in 3D if you don't want to. I hope, though, that they don't waste time with the camera going, "Look at me! I'm 3D!" - sometimes, newer techniques tempt directors to show them off rather than use them as tools to make the best movie possible. I've only seen 2 movies in 3D so far - in last year's [i]Christmas Carol[/i], there was an extended sequence to show off the 3D stuff - not saying to was terrible or boring to watch or anything, but it did feel gimmicky. I liked the 3D effects in [i]How to Train your Dragon[/i], because there, the flying sequences were relevant to the movie and didn't feel just tacked on. You don't want to be watching a movie and think 'they just put this in for the video game/ amusement park tie-in'.

At least, I certainly don't want to be pulled out of a Narnia film that way!

I like the trailer a lot, and am really looking forward to the movie. I hope it will restore some of the wonder that was sorely lacking in the second movie (except for the beach scene, where they re-enter Narnia). The one thing that bothers me about it is Ramandu's daughter saying that the fate of Narnia is in their hands....it just feels....wrong. Maybe it won't be a problem in the film.

Douglas Gresham (C. S. Lewis' step-son and the one in charge of the Estate) gave an interview about it recently, and commented on the role of temptation in this story. While he is involved in the movies as a producer, he's obviously not the script-writer or a director or anything. So, while he has an influence on how the movie is done, it's not 'his' project.

[quote]Interviewer: How did your personal relationship with him inform the work you are doing as a producer of the Narnia films?

Gresham: Completely and totally is the easiest answer to that. Everything that I do in trying to make sure that the messages that Jack was building into the books he wrote always reach the screen all comes from a direct liaison with Jack, from knowing exactly how he thought, and what he wanted in his books to say. He realized, as many people did, that we really needed to get back to the nineteenth century concepts of honor and duty and personal responsibility, personal commitment to chivalry and all of those things that we threw away in the twentieth century on the grounds that they were somehow out of date. Well, they aren't, they're eternal, and we need to get them back. Having thrown them away in the twentieth century, we've had to watch all of our society crumble around us into ruins, which is happening faster and faster. So we need to get those things back, and it's my duty, I believe, my inherited duty, to try to make sure they play as prominent a part in the movie as possible, in every movie we make, as much as it's possible to achieve. Of course, the books are not written as film scripts, so they have to be changed, certain changes have to be made, and I work very hard with my colleagues to try to make sure that any change made is one that is needed, and that it works for the sake of the film, and yet that the film will still carry the important essence that Jack built into those books. You will find that the essence of [i]Voyage of the Dawn-treader[/i] is.... Dawn Treader is [i]Screwtape[/i] for kids, in a sense - it's all about temptation, how it afflicts you and what you can do about it. And that's all still very strongly in the movie, and you'll see it, you'll see them being tempted one after the other, and how they cope with it, where they fail and where they succeed. So all of these things are very important to me. I think I inherited a moral responsibility to look after these things.

Interviewer: What can people expect in the upcoming movie?

Gresham: Well, that's a difficult question! I don't want to give too much away. A lot of excitement. A great deal of beauty. I have to say that Michael Apted and Dante Spinotti our DP have filmed it absolutely magnificently...there are such beautiful scenes in it. Also, there are some very, very emotionally moving scenes in this film. There is a great deal of easy to understand scenes of temptation - different people get tempted in different ways, in different places - tempted to fear, tempted to greed, tempted to this or that or the other thing. The instructional part of that is how you can cope with this or win through it. One of the problems we have with temptation today is everyone believes it is impossible to defeat. And you can never really know how strong temptation is until you have defeated it. If you just give in, all you've discovered is the level of your own weakness, not how strong the temptation can become. If you want to know how strong Mike Tyson is, you have to get into the ring and beat him - and that's tough.

Max McLean: That's a good analogy.

Gresham: That's the case, though, really. This comes out, I think you'll find, in the movie - you cannot know how strong these temptations can be until you actually fight them and defeat them. Some of our heroes and heroines come pretty close to the edge at times in this movie. I think you'll find it's going to be a beautiful and exciting film.

[url=http://www.narniafans.com/archives/8881#more-8881]Full Interview Here[/url][/quote]

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I am just happy that 20th Century Fox picked up the film series after Disney cancelled it.

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='23 June 2010 - 01:36 PM' timestamp='1277314584' post='2133265']
I am just happy that 20th Century Fox picked up the film series after Disney cancelled it.
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And, frankly, Prince Caspian [i]isn't[/i] very magical. It's my least favorite of the books. It's dark, it's sad and there's just too much fighting in it for my taste (but don't get me wrong-- I still like it)... Dawn Treader just lends itself better to being a wonderfully magical movie.

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[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='23 June 2010 - 10:40 AM' timestamp='1277314828' post='2133267']
:yes:

And, frankly, Prince Caspian [i]isn't[/i] very magical. It's my least favorite of the books. It's dark, it's sad and there's just too much fighting in it for my taste (but don't get me wrong-- I still like it)... Dawn Treader just lends itself better to being a wonderfully magical movie.
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Yes it most definitely does! Especially the end with Reepicheep!

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[i]Dawn Treader[/i] is my favorite of the Narnia books, too. I absolutely love the sea voyage, island-hopping...and the other-worldliness of the place where 'the water runs sweet.' It's just...a very cool story! I didn't read the Chronicles of Narnia until I was 18, so I don't quite have a child's love of the stories...but I love this one!

I don't think many people like the book [i]Prince Caspian[/i] very much, either, so it wasn't that surprising that the film turned out how it did. I mean, I certainly enjoyed aspects of it, but there were some things I was missing from it, and one of them was...that awe and wonder.

Now, just to wait til December....

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I liked the Prince Caspian movie, and I even enjoyed it a bit more than the first film in the series.

I have to admit that I found it funny when Disney cancelled the Narnia movie series because Prince Caspian only made 420 million dollars worldwide.

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lookingforfaith

EEEEK!! I'm SOOO Excited! Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favorite out of the Narnia books!!!

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homeschoolmom

I love VDT and it's a tie for me for favorite... the other being The Last Battle... I'm just so afraid that something will happen before they are able to make TLB and I will be left dangling....

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Yeah...while the potential is there for 7 movies, this isn't Harry Potter. I would suspect that (assuming Dawn Treader does well), they'll make [i]Silver Chair[/i], but after that....well, there's a strong chance they won't make the other movies. These are big budget films, so they have to be sure they'll recoup their investment. The BBC only did LWW, PC, VotDT and SC, so they must've thought there wasn't enough interest for the others. I suspect that Dawn Treader will do better than Prince Caspian, though, so there's still hope.....

[b]Apo[/b], I have to agree that their definition of a failure/flop doesn't make much sense to me. There was a lot to like in [i]Prince Caspian[/i] - Trumpkin the Dwarf and Reepicheep were awesome, for instance. But overall the movie was a lot darker and more...dismal? than the first movie. Meaning, the fighting was all against humans, and instead of it being children from our world who are reluctant to take on the role of heroes and have to grow into it...they ended up stepping right back into their roles and saying, okay, where do we start? That leads to grittier battle sequences and a lot more killing, so it's not everyone's cup of tea. They created the conflict between Caspian and Peter (or, well, Peter and everyone) as he decided to spend the entire film wishing people would do a better job of acknowledging him as High King. He got better once the incident with the White Witch happened, but it was a bit of a letdown. And don't get me started on Caspian's romance with Susan!

But yes, I did like the second film, though I preferred the first. I think [i]Dawn Treader[/i] has the potential to be my favorite Narnia film, just as it is my favorite of the books.

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eustace scrubb

I don't think I need to comment on this, heh. The only thing I have to say is that I am extremely nervous about how it turns out and I can't even bring myself to watch the trailer... this is, after all, my favorite fictional work of all time...

Also, I'm glad that Fox picked it up. I can't stand Disney.

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tinytherese

Call me a purist, but Disney wasn't being accurate to the stories anyway. I hope this does better.

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laetitia crucis

I wish this movie would come out sooooner... along with Harry Potter. :sadder: How about coming out in September??? :sweat:

I want to see both of these!

Hmmmm... or maybe I'll be able to watch them when I come home a year later for my pre-novitiate entrance visit. :pray: :lol:

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