“Voyage of the Dawn Treader” Named Notable Film of 2010

December 20, 2009 Mike The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Movie News, Twentieth Century Fox, Walden Media 6

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.

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6 Comments

  1. I somewhat disagree with Dark Horizons. I realize that publicity is great, but we had tons of that for Prince Caspian and look what happened to that! Contrast that with Wardrobe, which I didn’t know about until three months before it hit theaters…

  2. I know Walden and 20th Century Fox will promote the movie. But us Narnia fans have to spread the word. I have told my brothers and sisters who haven’t read the Narnia series to be sure to see the Voyage. I’ve told them it is the best in the series. It will be my most notable of 2010!

  3. The publicity for Prince Caspian was a different animal. The comparison could also be made to LWW. In December 2004, one year out from release, Disney/Walden released the first behind the scenes video for LWW. Plus, they had already run a very cool ad in major (US) national newspapers for the film.

    So far in December 2009, one year before the VDT release, we’ve seen three publicity shots. Maybe they’re planning a big splash (no pun intended) for Comic Con. Maybe they’re working with a smaller publicity budget. Who knows?

    Fox did a solid job getting word out about “Avatar.” I hope they do the same with VDT.

  4. So I was thinking on the other day… And, What if the Mysterious Little Girl is JILL POLE!
    I know this comment has anything to do with this new… But I want someone to tell me if the Mysterious Little Girl is or is not JILL POLE!

    CAN’T WAIT TILL AN ANSWER! :))

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