Hot off the heels of Amazing Grace, director Michael Apted has been given the task of directing Walden Media and Disney’s third Chronicles of Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Aint It Cool News broke the story, and you can read all about it here.
Anyway – Mrs. Beaver visited me… and after my Pom was drugged, I had some nice cookies and tea with Mrs. Beaver and asked her why she was visiting. Turns out, Mrs. Beaver came a very long way to chat with me about THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. We all heard that Andrew Adamson was vying out of the directing duties on DAWN TREADER, the third Narnia film… He’s still going to produce the film, but a new director was needed. Mrs. Beaver came directly to me to share the scoop.
The director of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is… MICHAEL APTED!!!
That’s right, the tremendous director behind the __ UP series of docs, GORKY PARK, COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER, GORILLAS IN THE MIST, the criminally underrated THUNDERHEART… and most recently AMAZING GRACE!
Given Michael’s upbringing in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England… Given that the first Narnia book was written when Apted was a strapping 8 years old… and continued to come out through him reaching the age of 13… the PRIME ages to have read that series… I’m betting that he’s a huge honking NARNIA fan from the get go.
All I know is that Apted is a fine director and he’s never really tackled material on this scale, closest being his Bond film, but that’s nothing near THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER in terms of scope or effects. But hopefully his enthusiasm and attention to detail will give us something remarkable!
Props to AICN for the scoop!
