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TotalFilm recently included The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on its list of “Twenty 2010 Films To Get Excited About.” James White writes, “Why We’re Excited: With Michael Apted at the helm and a much more adventurous setting than the previous Narnia movies, Dawn Treader could sail past Prince Caspian in terms of quality.” You can see Dawn Treader on the list here. Thanks ginevra88 for the heads-up!

Karine wrote in today to tell us, “Imogen Heap’s new album Ellipse is available for a complete listening online. Narnia fans who are interested in hearing the song that didn’t make it in Prince Caspian (because it was “too dark”) can follow this link: http://www.imogenheap.com/ellipse/ (Track #8 called “2-1″). Enjoy!” Thanks Karine for the link!

A new set of photos, taken yesterday, has cropped up on David Jackmanson’s Flickr account. Unlike the pictures we’ve seen so far, these are zoomed in on various parts of the ship to show us new details.

You can check out all of David’s photos at his Flickr account here.

Thanks to icarus and ceppault for the heads-up!

UPDATE: MundoNarnia as a few excellent new close-ups of the ship as well. You can see the doors being put up on the stern of the ship. Check them out here.

ComingSoon.net was sent some hi-rez pictures of the Dawn Treader. It’s not much further along than when we posted AutumnHeart’s pictures yesterday, but the shots are from some new angles, and they’re really cool to look at.

A good shot of the back of the head where you can see the rigging acting as "reins" for the dragon's head. And that wire hanging down from its mouth — might that be where the lantern is hung?

A decent look at the tail.

 
You can check out all of ComingSoon.net’s story and pictures for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader here.

Thanks to GlimGlum for the heads-up!

The Bayside Bulletin has a story on one of the “stars” of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , a historic 1938 Bedford WLG. The truck’s owner, Graham Kircher, is a collector of vehicles from the 1930s, and was contacted about using one of them as a prop for the opening scene in Narnia. “I had half a dozen vehicles from the 1930s that might have worked, and the art director went through them, saying ’too shiny’, ’wrong colour’, until they settled on the Bedford. The only problem was it was red and brown, and they needed military. They aged the truck with coffee, then put advertisements, numbers and registration stickers on it from the time period and I hung around for the day in case they needed me to drive it anywhere – I was there for hours but the scene they were shooting took 12 takes to get only 25 seconds. The set was impressive: there were extras in period costume on bikes and with prams, and a blue screen three storeys high to project a big sandstone building onto later.” You can read the full story here.

Bruce Spence (who will be playing Lord Rhoop) was at Comic-Con 2009 discussing the “Legend of the Seeker” weekly television series. The series, created by Sam Raimi, is based on “The Sword of Truth” novels by Terry Goodkind. Spence plays the role of Zeddicus “Zedd” Zu’l Zorander. View the video here. Thanks to ’Narnia Lover.’

AutumnHeart has updated her blog to include some new glorious hi-rez pictures of the Dawn Treader. She now has two masts, some rigging, and if you look closely, you can see her tail lying on the ground nearby ready to be attached.

The Dawn Treader, port side, with the second mast attached and rigging.

The Dawn Treader, starboard side. The second wing hasn't been attached yet.

The Dawn Treader, port side. If you look through the trees, you can see the tail.

Check out AutumnHeart’s flickr account here.

Thanks to icarus for the heads-up, and special thanks to AutumnHeart for taking the fabulous pictures!

Douglas Gresham is currently in Orlando, FL for the C. S. Lewis Conference. MyFox Orlando had a chance to chat with him for a bit about the conference, Lewis, and the Narnia movies. You can check it out here. Thanks to daredevil for the heads-up!

Even though filming the Narrowhaven Wharf scene is finished, two people have posted extensive blogs about their trips to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader set that we thought you all might be interested in seeing.

The first blog, Under Her Starry Mantle, has pictures of the Wharf set a day or two before they started filming. There are no actors in these pictures, but she did get a few fantastic shots of the set, the props, and perhaps most interestingly, the rowboats used by the Dawn Treader.

Two Dawn Treader Crew Boats - Under Her Starry Mantle blog

You can see all of the pictures at Under Her Starry Mantle’s blog here.

Thanks to icarus and H.M.Swanwhite for the heads-up.

The second report is an update from Movie Mazzupial (who was responsible for those cell phone snaps of Coriakin’s Garden). She boated by the Wharf set the day of filming. The pictures are sadly a bit small and hard to make out, but they’re still very interesting to look at. And if you look very, very closely at eigth picture down, you can barely make out what might be the Dawn Treader crew in uniform. 

Filming at the Narrowhaven Wharf set - Movie Mazzupial

Movie Mazzupial writes “There were a few dozen men dressed in matching uniforms in the scene and they had to run up and down the set. It looked like a medieval military uniform of some sort and consisted of brown pants, a white shirt and a maroon vest thingy with the emblem of what looked like a yellow lion on it.”

You can check out her blog here.

Thanks to icarus for the heads-up.

Running time: 39:38 Well, it’s time for another podcast, and as promised Gymfan, glumPuddle and Rilian tackle the latest synopsis — but not before discussing what we should expect from an adaptation in the first place.

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