Have you read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
If you haven’t, the time to do so is now. Because on December 10, the movie will arrive. (Fortunately, it’s a quick read.)
Want a preview? Well, here it is…
Are you ready to hear a bunch of dramatic statements of foreboding from Aslan?
I’ll post the “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” trailer tomorrow night… (more…)
I’m curious: Are you looking forward to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? (more…)
N.T. Wright considers Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia:
This introduction to a masterpiece is something of a masterpiece in its own right. Lewis’s ghost (whom Lewis envisaged as a possible benign presence around Magdalene College, Cambridge) has reason to be grateful that the crucial discovery was made by someone capable of expounding it with such subtlety and depth. There are tiny blemishes … but the overall effect is remarkable. Michael Ward has written a book whose “donegality” is the medieval scholarship, the poetic craftsmanship, the philosophical acumen and the imaginative genius of the self-consciously Jovial Lewis himself. It would be a great pity if the still prevailing Saturnine mood of our times, which has belittled and sometimes even reviled Lewis as a thinker, were to blind us to his remarkable literary, philosophical, cosmological and theological achievement.
Let’s just be clear. These Narnia movies aren’t supposed to be based on the books. They’re supposed to be based on the filmmakers’ *memories* of the books, which they might not have read since childhood. Because, you know, those memories will be so much better than the books. And who could expect a busy filmmaker to actually read the novel he’s adapting?
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Peter Chattaway has just posted news about who picked up that Narnia hot potato – Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
The new script has been written by Richard LaGravenese, writer of The Fisher King, A Little Princess, The Horse Whisperer, and others.
Peter Chattaway is all over the news — good news, in my opinion — that Disney has dropped The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I was so disappointed in Disney’s treatment of the first two films, I really didn’t want to see them wreck this ship.
Let’s hope that whoever picks up the franchise will be more respectful to C.S. Lewis’s ideas, and the themes of his original stories.