Confirmed: Tony Nixon is Rynelf in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

We have reached out to our sources with the film, and confirmed that Tony Nixon has indeed been cast as Rynelf in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The actor has also appeared on a TV movie called Mermaids as well as a 2003 film called Gettin’ Square. He’s also done some voice over work, as well as theater acting.

Rynelf is a loyal sailor on board the Dawn Treader. Here is a passage of Rynelf speaking from the book:

“Your Majesties and gentlemen and ladies all,” said Rynelf, “there’s just one thing I want to say. There’s not one of us chaps as was pressed on this journey. We’re volunteers. And there’s some here chat are looking very hard at that table and thinking about king’s feasts who were talking very loud about adventures on the day we sailed from Cair Paravel, and swearing they wouldn’t come home till we’d found the end of the world. And there were some standing on the quay who would have given all they had to come with us. It was thought a finer thing then to have a cabin-boy’s berth on the Dawn Treader than to wear a knight’s belt. I don’t know if you get the hang of what I’m saying. But what I mean is that I think chaps who set out like us will look as silly as – as those Dufflepuds – if we come home and say we got to the beginning of the world’s end and hadn’t the heart to go further.”

I wonder who we’re going to hear about joining the cast this week? It seems to be a steady stream of news, now that it’s in production. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be in theaters on December 10, 2010.