Monday, 11/30/2009
The Helm of the Dawn Treader
First Look! We are ecstatic to share the first images from our new film THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER with the official Chronicles of Narnia Facebook Fan page.
The photos are part of the first of a series of reports from the set of DAWN TREADER. In this unique and special series, the Narnia Facebook page will bring “unfiltered reports from and about the filmmakers, as they work tirelessly to bring all the magic of C.S. Lewis’ beloved story and characters to the big screen.”
The first post, written on set by crew member Ernie Malik, takes a close look at the Dawn Treader ship itself, and the dedication, creativity and care that went into its design and construction:
““All Narnians, with grateful hearts may we give thanks to the crew of the mighty Dawn Treader for their strong minds and artisan hands”
So reads the dedication etched onto the base of the towering mast of production designer Barry Robison’s mighty and majestic set build of the film’s title character in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” which sat out on the peninsula at Cleveland Point about 20 miles east of Brisbane, Australia, and hosted cast/crew for 17 days of filming during the month of September.
What does it all mean?
It’s very possible that such merchant sailing ships of yore carried the names of its crew in honor of those whose hands helped build such a ship. Or, that of an unexpected death at sea.
In the film’s story, it was Barry’s idea to inscribe the ship’s soaring mast as Caspian’s dedication to his loyal Narnian crew who built the vessel for their King. While audiences will never see a close-up of the names on the mast, they represent, in the story, those Telmarine sailors on the journey with Caspian and the Pevensies.”
Continue reading the entire post on Facebook, and become a fan of The Chronicles of Narnia to be the first to receive these exclusive updates about the film.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER sails into theaters December 10, 2010.
Ben Barnes and Skandar Keynes as King Caspian and Edmund Pevensie in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
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8 Comments on First Look! THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
Some prevision to when the (teaser)Trailer come out?
I can’t wait to see this movie, will be the best of 2010!
This is so exciting! The Dawn Treader is simply stunning. She exceeded all my expectations. I can’t wait to read the next reports and I can’t wait to see the teaser!
I am very pleased that the acting side of this film is now successfully completed and the baton has now been passed to the post production people. I am sure that post production will also do something fabulous with the scenery to complement the stage sets. Whilst on the subject of The Chronicles of Narnia I would like to make the following request to anyone from Walden Media who may be reading this. When the Blu-ray disc of this film comes to be released I would like to see one particular feature added to this film which was missing from the disc releases of the first two films. I’m referring to the absence of a sub-title channel for the audio commentaries. It was sometimes really frustrating listening to the conversation between Andrew Adamson and his cast members and not being able to pick up many of the words that were being spoken whilst the film was playing. Can you PLEASE try and do something about this in time for the Blu-ray disc release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
Hello, I wonder if that Walden Media is in charge of special effects for the film, ie post production or if they hire an outside company. Since the effects I consider a marvel. Sie alguin from Walden Media read this I wonder if I can respond.
All the best in the world in the new crossing to be faced with the movie, I’ve loved the first two and luck with fox, I think that disney is going to feel an idiot for leaving the production.
I confess something, my dream is to work at Walden Media, as I am a big fan of this company, I admire a lot for the work they do with the movies.
Thank you very much.
I just can’t wait to see the movie or even a trailer.
I’m freelance digital artist and great fan of Narnia, so my expectations about the movie are very big. I need to say that my wish is to work on concept art for any of the next Narnia movies. I have many Narnia-inspired illustrations in my portfolio and even my centaur avatar in secondlife looks exactly like Oreius (which was a very hard design work).
Hello, estube reading on the internet that Walden Media integrated into the production of the Chronicles of Narnia 3, a new making instrument to improve the image, his name is Nucoda HD suegun what I read in the web is a powerful image controller that facilitates the post production work, so I think that Doug Jones, vice president of Walden I do a very good acquisition for this preoducto. The truth is I can not wait to see even a trailer for the movie.
Greetings to all.
Henely Diego.
By Christmas 2010 there will be at least 3 films being released that are aimed for the Christmas season. Narnia fans will most likely already know that the next Harry Potter film is going to be released in 3-D. There is going to be stiff competition for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and given the well deserved success of the recently released 3-D version of Alice in Wonderland I ask the following question: has Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox considered releasing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 3-D?
I’m not sure if 3D version of the “Dawn Treader” is a good idea. While previous films were non3D, I think that next movies should be filmed in classic technology too.
The visual effects in previous movies were the background to the amazing story. If Walden will decide to use 3D, I’m affraid that visual effects will push the storyline to the background. Simply: people will remember this movie only for effects, not the story.