We made an attempt to get someone to this event, but sadly the one person that might have been available had to work during the event. Thankfully another Narnia fan site was able to have someone in attendance. I would have gone myself, but I had a wedding to go to during the conference. Micheal Flaherty is a great friend of mine, and I would have loved to see him again.
Here’s a highlight of the report:
The last workshop of the day was a presentation by Dr. Devin Brown, author of the Inside Narnia and Inside Prince Caspian books, called “The Spiritual and Character Lessons from the Narnia Films.” The title basically sums up the content of the workshop! At the end, Dr. Brown and Mr. Flaherty answered questions about the Narnia books and films. I did want to highlight a few things that Mr. Flaherty said about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. First, Dr. Brown asked Mr. Flaherty to answer “yes” or “no” to a series of questions about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Dr. Brown: “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is being made?”
Mr. Flaherty: “Yes. Some things need to work out, but it is on a very good path to being in production this summer.”
Dr. Brown: “It’s going to be a great movie?”
Mr. Flaherty: “Yes.”
Dr. Brown: “It’ll be filled with great adventure like the ones we’ve already looked at?”
Mr. Flaherty: “Yes. It’ll be a great adventure—it’ll feel closer in tone and spirit to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It has all the themes that people enjoy about the book. Eustace is one of the best realized characters we’ve had in any film—the writers and Michael Apted have nailed Eustace the same way that Andrew [Adamson] really understood Lucy. It’s incredibly bittersweet at the end when Lucy and Edmund realize that they’re not coming back to Narnia as well. Definitely very excited about that one.”
Later, he mentioned that his favorite character is Reepicheep, which bodes well for our fearless warrior. Also, he said that one of his favorite scenes from the Chronicles of Narnia is the un-dragoning of Eustace and how it emphasizes the fact that grace cannot be earned and that forgiveness is a gift. Hopefully, this means that this scene has stayed accurate!
Exciting!!!!!!!!I can’t wait till the movie comes out!
I am so excited!! This was my favorite book (not just favorite Narnia book) when I was a kid!
This sounds like it was pretty cool! It would have been neat to go. I’m counting the days until ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ comes out!!! Sail on!
*suppresses scream*
THIS WILL BE THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!
as long as they keep in Caspian’s line ‘has freckles, and squints’
And the albatross bit.
and get the duffers right.
and Ramandu’s daughter.
And… yeah, pretty much the whole book. Because seriously, how can you improve on perfection?