Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

So Fox has picked up the Narnia franchise that Disney gave up on far too early.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0980970/

I am not sure if this is a good thing or not, it is Fox after all, but the Walden company are still involved so they might hold off the Fox meddling
The film is due out Dec 2010

Interesting... But for me (and maybe it was due to the fact that TL,TW,&TW was a major favourite of mine when I was very young-- one of the first books I read on my own) Prince Caspian was a major letdown from the Chronic (WHAT?) Ls of Narnia.

I hope they right the ship.

I've never been big on Narnia, it always seemed like a waste of a decent budget to me.

Good to see that there will be another one,i actually enjoyed Voyage of the Dawn Treader(Tv Show) so the movie should be good too,i hated the original Prince Caspian but the movie was good so we`ll see.

The movies were fine for me (I liked the books better), but I'm glad Fox picked them up if only because I hate to see a series go unfinished!

Now if someone would just pick up His Dark Materials!

Although I liked the books much better...the movies were cool to watch.

They never should have released Caspian in the summer.

Caspian was a decent flick... but really the books tend to go downhill after Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. And I seriously doubt the full 7 will ever see theatrical releases, maybe some kind of straight to DVD releases.

galactiboy said:

Caspian was a decent flick... but really the books tend to go downhill after Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. And I seriously doubt the full 7 will ever see theatrical releases, maybe some kind of straight to DVD releases.

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The last book is kind of a downer.

No doubt Had to reread the end to make sure I got what the hell had happened

Disney botched their Narnia franchise. Lion, Witch Wardrobe was a bona-fide phenomenon-- it should not have taken 3 years for the sequel to be released, and in the summer.


Giving up was the right business choice because the Narnia franchise had lost all its steam (through mistakes of their own)


Fox is picking up the scraps and seeing if they can make some coin of it.

Hopefully we can finally get a PG-13 film. I always felt the lack of any decent violence in the battles made the battles seem unimportant. The second film was especially bad when someone clearly got stabbed and the sword gets pulled out without a trace of blood on it. I'm not saying these need to be blood baths, but something along the lines of Lord of the Rings would be much better than the Disney battles.

galactiboy said:

No doubt Had to reread the end to make sure I got what the hell had happened

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What exactly did happen?

Spoiler:

So the Pevensies were all dead right? They died in the beginning of Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, yes? And what was the deal with Susan and her absence? I'm thinking they were all in a type of limbo (aka comas), and her absence meant she woke from the coma and lived her life while the siblings passed away.

Am I close or way off base?

Anymore Narnia movies that come out after this one, might have to wait three years after the two Hobbit movies are released. That or risk another Summer release.

Sith Lord 0498 said:

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So the Pevensies were all dead right? They died in the beginning of Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, yes? And what was the deal with Susan and her absence? I'm thinking they were all in a type of limbo (aka comas), and her absence meant she woke from the coma and lived her life while the siblings passed away.

Am I close or way off base?

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If I remember right, they died in the last book on a train ride. They basically all go to heaven except Susan who no longer believed in Narnia so she basically went to hell. It is a little more complicated, but I am pretty sure that is the gist of it.

I rather see more Narnia movies then all the dumb remakes coming out. I enjoyed both Narnia films and I see the new one.

NASEDO said:

I rather see more Narnia movies then all the dumb remakes coming out. I enjoyed both Narnia films and I see the new one.

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Technically the Narnia movies are remakes - they were mini-series in the UK first.

I thought Prince Caspian was very good. So of course I'm very happy they are making a third in the series.

I wonder if they will stick with the same director.

Bannister said:

They never should have released Caspian in the summer.

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I couldn't agree more...it should have been a fall movie. I'm not a big fan of the original books and the first Narnia movie was okay...but I really liked the darker edge "Caspian" had...I mean really, how many "family" movies are out there where an underlying theme is about ethnic cleansing?

Now, hearing that the movie series might continue somewhere other than Disney, maybe they will continue with that dark edge intact...

Dutch said:

I thought Prince Caspian was very good. So of course I'm very happy they are making a third in the series.

I wonder if they will stick with the same director.

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No I'm afraid not. The Director is called Michael Apted
Here is his Filmography https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000776/