The next film in The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, will make its West Coast debut when the president of Walden Media, Micheal Flaherty, unveils clips from the upcoming film at the Biola Media Conference on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at CBS Studios in Studio City, CA. The film is scheduled for release on December 10, 2010 in partnership with 20th Century Fox.
“We are beyond thrilled to have Micheal Flaherty give us an advance look at Voyage of the Dawn Treader, noted Jack Hafer, producer of the award-winning film “To End All Wars” and Chair of Biola University’s nationally acclaimed Cinema and Media Arts program. “As the co-founder and president of Walden Media, he has a unique and visionary perspective on the latest installment of this extraordinary franchise. And for anyone who’s a Narnia fan, this is a not-to-be-missed event.”
In addition to the Narnia series, Walden has financed and produced such films as “Charlotte’s Web,” “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Holes,” “Because of Winn-Dixie,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D,” “I Am David,” “Amazing Grace” and their latest film release, “Tooth Fairy” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
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I’m going to have to miss it. I live too far away. :'(
Aww… all the way in Cali. Gah. Oh well, probably better that I don’t see spoilers so I can view all the awesomeness of the movie in its entirety.
das Walden Media need help for the last battle???????
because i want to be in it
It might be about six or seven years before they get to The Last Battle.
Why is that? I thought they’d film the 4 stories with the Pevensies one after another, and leave all the others out…
Or am I missing some info here?
Peace from the Netherlands!
I don’t see why they’d leave some of the stories out merely because they did not feature the Pevensies. They’re doing the books in publication order, at the moment.
You seriously thought they were only going to the ones with the Pevensie children in it. Honey, I think the next one after Dawn Treader is Silver Chair and that one doesn’t have a single Pevensie in it.
The Pevensies in The Last Battle needn’t be the age they are now. Also, they aren’t really main characters in that book. The Last Battle’s main characters are Eustace and Jill, so they will most likely finish The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (with Eustace), followed by The Silver Chair (Eustace and Jill), and lastly, The Last Battle (With just about everyone in Narnia).
What about Magician’s Nephew and The Horse and His Boy?
I doubt they will make the last battle as although it is popular with Narnia fans (myself included) it is not a typically popular story. It is likely that they will do this one and the silver chair and finish it there.
In the UK we had the BBC films of the Narnia series but only these four were done then as they were the only stories which are popular and cinematographic.
Although they are currently being produced in published order it is not the chronological order of the books and therefore I think this suggests that they will not film all the books as they will not make sense. Lets not forget that Polly and Diggory also occur in the last Battle so unless they cut them completely they would have to make that too but it does not have the same connections as the others.
This is a bit incorrect. In the UK, the BBC was making them in publication order as well, but they didn’t have the budget for the other three. But that was only part of the story. The other part is that those books are particularly more religious and they didn’t like that. Because of these two things, they opted out of doing the rest.
As for the Published vs. Chronological, the stories are better read in publication order as The Magician’s Nephew unlocks the secrets of so much that the mystery surrounding much of the magic of Narnia is swept away by knowing the origins beforehand.
Lest we forget, Walden Media is committed to the series and hopes to finish all seven. I hope that they do.
I’m with you, Daniel. I’m so torn between wanting to see and learn more, and just sucking it up and waiting, because, really . . . it’ll probably be better that way.
So, I guess God’s using this to work patience in me, right?
The LWW trailer debuted at this conference in 2005, two weeks before it was released online…just sayin’ 🙂
Who wants to sponsor my trip? 🙂
Well… if I didn’t have a wedding to plan, I might have been able to. However… if you somehow get there, and were willing to write a full report, I’d fund the admission. 😀
Dearheart and I will be going!!!!! We are beyond stoked! Do you think they’ll just show the same clips you saw at the Summit? Even if that’s all it is, it’ll be worth the admission! I’ll write as full a report as they allow me to. Wish you could be there, too! God bless! 😀 <
I’ll be looking forward to your full reports! 🙂 Wish I could bee there too, but I have much planning to do and that would be another trip.
I cannot WAIT for the movie! 🙂 🙂 🙂