So, if anyone has been on NW in the past couple of hours you will know that some interesting stories have hit the news there.
The first one was an interview with Eustace (Will) that demonstrated that he, at least, understands Eustace's character.
The other was more exciting (and more recent): it describes some of the sets (confirming that the "Italian-looking village" to use his terms was indeed Narrowhaven, not that that was in doubt) and also DT sets; the story also includes an approximately 5 minute long interview with Ernie Malik where he talks about the sets. The Interview also included a question about what they had left to film: Ernie says that mainly what they have left is "two big action sequences," a sequence about the storm AND a sequence about the SEA SERPENT. Also, he talked about a beautiful place where they filmed the emotional ending of the movie (hopefully they did it right).
With these two stories, I feel a little better about this movie. They are going to actually have these two sequences from the book which served as catalysts to two of the Island scenes. Will understands his character. I am a little more skeptical about the last thing I mentioned, but in all it gave me reason to be optimistic.