In the second interview he states that he believes that the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is “one of great endings in movie history” and I completely agree with him.
Here’s an excerpt from the one from Crosswalk.com:
Can you give an example of something in the adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader that you took issue with or fought for or didn’t want changed from book to screen?
Well there are so many. Always when you translate a book from the sort of medium of print into a movie, you’re going to have to make changes. What happens in these things is that there’s a sort of group of people—almost an informal committee—that decide what to do and what to put into the screenplay and so forth. And being a complete and utter Narnia fanatical purist, any comma they moved to me is an anathema. So I argue pretty strongly for what I believe in. And we always come to a compromise situation. So there are always things that I would rather not have done, and there are always things the director probably would not have done. And he’s moved in my direction, and I’ve moved in his. This is the sort of cooperative process in making a movie from a book. And I think it probably doesn’t infringe on people’s consciousness when they see the movies as much as it does on mine when I’m actually making the movies. I work very hard to make my points and some of them are understood and some of them are not and so forth. But we always work as sort of a team to eventually come out with something that results in usually a first-class film.
Do you think C.S. Lewis would approve of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader‘s leap from page to screen and the end result?
I’m very wary of ever saying of how Jack would think about things. Of course he died in 1963, and he hasn’t had the 50 so or years of life to change his attitudes as I’ve gone through. So I’m not prepared to say what Jack would think or would not think. I’m prepared to say if he had watched what we had done with Aslan and Reepicheep and characters like this on-screen, he would be utterly thrilled. His great fear was that the Narnia Chronicles would be done sometime in cell animation, in a cartoon type way and he hated that. And so I’m very, very happy that we’ve been able to do it in such absolute realism. I mean that lion walking around the screen could be a real lion in the zoo. And I’m very glad we’ve been able to give him the majesty and dignity that he needs. And the same with Reepicheep and the other animal characters from Narnia. I think Jack would absolutely love what we’ve been able to do there.
Was there a time when anyone was trying to get these films made in that cell animation type of way?
Yes, of course, there was a time. But I’ve been trying to make these movies since long before this modern technology of computer generated imagery even existed. And there were people who came up with ideas that I said “no” to. I think the Holy Spirit of God held this whole process up until the technology had been developed sufficiently to do it justice.
And here’s an excerpt from the interview with Examiner.com’s Mike Parker:
Parker – It is probably premature to ask, but will there be another Narnia movie?
Gresham – That depends on you. If everyone goes to see the film, and takes all there friends, and all of their enemies – we’re supposed to love them, too – then we will have the box office clout to go to our investors and with a clear conscience ask for the funds to make another film.
Parker – Last words?
Gresham – I think people should understand that this movie returns us to the great beauty, wonder and magic of Narnia, but it is also about temptation and how we face it; it is about love and loss. I personally think the ending of the movie is one of great endings in movie history. I think that people are going to love this film. I encourage them to see it.