NarniaWebber Raticus writes: “This afternoon at about 3PM Central Standard Time, the trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was shown on Fox Movie Channel. It was shown after an interview with the director of Ramona & Beezus.” This is the first we’ve heard of the trailer being shown on TV. It’s great to hear about more promotion that Fox is doing for VDT! Thanks Raticus!

If you live in Japan and want to order advance tickets from Toho Cinemas for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (opening on 25 Feb 2011), they currently include an Aslan Lace Wire Art Kit. It’s a set of four pipe cleaner type wires that you twist around one another to form the shape of Aslan. More pictures available here.
Thanks to Wlin and PeaceAndLove for the heads-up and Griffle for the explanation.

David Arnold tweeted seven hours ago that he is currently in the process of working on the score for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He writes, “I am now deep into the Wardrobe ( or in this case, the Painting) in Narnia.Looking gorgeous…..lots to write,going to be epic.” We’re looking forward to it!

From The Chronicle’s website:

Toowoomba’s Daniel Poole not only has a small role in the upcoming Narnia film — but he also made it onto the film’s trailer.
“My character doesn’t have a name, but he is lining up to join the Army behind Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes),” he said.
Mr Poole spoke highly of co-star Skandar, who he got to ruffle his hair. “He was an absolute champ,” he said. “We’d do the scene and then laugh and make fun of each other.

You can read the full story here.

A team of two Asbury University professors and an Asbury University student produced a video interview of Micheal Flaherty, president of Walden Media. Asbury English professor, Dr. Devin Brown, who has authored three books about C. S. Lewis and Narnia, designed the questions and interviewed Flaherty. Asbury media communication professor, Greg Bandy, was the producer and director. Austin Berry, a senior media communication major, was in charge of filming and editing. The footage was shown at the Asbury Reunion in June, and will be used at several of Dr. Brown’s upcoming scholarly talks, and at Asbury’s Narnia Night planned for December. Following that, it will be posted on Asbury’s website. Dr. Brown’s third book on C.S. Lewis, “Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” will be released on Oct. 1, 2010. The third Narnia film will open on Dec. 10, 2010. Asbury’s Narnia Night III is planned for Dec. 3, 2010 in Hughes Auditorium. For more details, please see the story at asbury.edu.

A few months ago, we reported on some toy concept art for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by ‘pnutink’ which can be seen here. Kelila and icarus wrote in again to say that ‘pnutink’ had added more concept toy art to his site, which he has graciously given us permission to post here.

Pnutink also told me that these concepts have not been confirmed and at this point it is unlikely they will actually make it to production. But they’re still fun to look at.

Narnia.com has updated to include a map that the user can sail around in their boat. Islands such as Galma, Terabinthia, the Seven Isles, the Lone Islands, Dragon Island, Burnt Island, Goldwater, the Magician’s Island, the Dark Island, and Ramandu’s Island all make an appearance on the map. Aslan’s Country is also visible. At the moment, it appears that all a user can do is sail between islands, but only time will tell what will get added next!

Looks like The Voyage of the Dawn Treader isn’t going to have a weekend release to itself anymore (in the USA that is). Paramont Pictures has decided to release The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams on December 10th as well. The full story is available here. Also, for those that are interested, I’ve compiled a current list of US releases in the months of November and December that can be seen on the forum here.

Fans of C. S. Lewis will be interested to learn that his 1945 novel The Great Divorce has been slated for film production, according to Variety’s Dave McNary. Mpower Pictures and Beloved Pictures will join forces to produce the film, with author N.D. Wilson hired to write the screenplay. The Great Divorce is the story of a fantasy journey from Hell to Heaven, with themes of Lewis’ Christianity woven throughout. You can read Variety’s story here.

Thanks Meg for the heads-up!

Is Weta Workshop involved in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? We heard rumors of this back in November, and their latest newsletter seems to hint at it (though of course we don’t know anything for sure):

“Having done conceptual design, props, weapons, miniatures and all sorts of things for the first two Narnia movies, our involvement with the latest instalment of CS Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles wasn’t on the same scale, but we’re REALLY looking forward to the movie in December. Especially now that we’ve seen the trailer…”

Interesting! You can sign up for the newsletter here.

Other items of interest: some of Weta’s LWW statues are currently on sale, and if you buy any of the LWW and PC statues before June 29th you will automatically be entered in a prize drawing where you can win a replica of Lucy’s cape (created by Stansborough Fibres). Thanks Griffle for the heads-up!