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Walden Media owns the rights to these films and is the primary production company. Disney was the distributor for the first two films, but has declined to be involved in future films. 20th Century Fox will distribute and co-finance the film with Walden Media. Michael Apted will direct.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was originally set to be released in May 2009, but the release date was pushed back due to production issues. Now, Fox and Walden are aiming for a December 10, 2010 release in the USA. The only other release date we've officially received thus far is a December 9, 2010 release date for Australia. IMDb has a preliminary list of release dates that can be found here.

Filming for Dawn Treader is now complete. Warner Roadshow Studios was the “central hub” during filming, but many places around the Queensland, Australia area were also used. NarniaWebber ceppault has taken the time to make an extensive Google map that includes all the known locations at which Dawn Treader was filmed. You can check out his map here.

The production budget is currently set at $140 – $150 million.

Walden Media and the C. S. Lewis Estate signed an agreement that all of the movies would receive a PG rating. Recently, Walden Media officially announced on their website that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader would be PG.

Andrew Adamson will not be directing this film for the very simple reason that he doesn't want to do it. In an interview, Douglas Gresham said, "Andrew's not going to direct the next one; I think he's realised that it's time he took a break. I think probably he has devoted so much time to us, we would be very remiss to ask him to do it again. I don't think his wife would be very pleased if he had to take off for another two years to make a movie in the far parts of the world and so on. But in any case I think it'll probably be good for Andrew and very good for us to change a little bit of style here and there."

Georgie, Skandar, and Ben have all signed on, as has Liam Neeson (Aslan). Reepicheep has been recast and will now be voiced by Bill Nighy. As far as Will and Anna are concerned, neither will be returning (expect possibly in a cameo). For the production team, there will be many familiar faces: Mark Johnson (producer), Howard Berger with KNB EFX, and Isis Mussenden (costume designer). But along with director Michael Apted, there will be a few new names as well, such as David Arnold (composer), Nina Gold (casting director), and Jim Rygiel (special effects supervisor). See our full list of Cast and Crew here.

There was a lot of concern when an early draft of the Dawn Treader script leaked, but we were able to obtain an official statement from the production for everyone. Firstly, they are "really deeply sorry for any disquiet or emotional discomfort that this occurrence may have brought about and... are working to try to prevent this sort of thing from ever happening again." Secondly, "these pages were indeed illicitly released, though not, we think from any malice on the part of any member of our team." Thirdly, "the pages were from a very early experimental draft which should in fact never have been seen by anyone outside of a very small group of Producers."

They are definitely planning on producing The Silver Chair next in the series. After that, it's still up in the air. Cary Granat of Walden Media has mentioned twice that they're considering The Magician's Nephew next instead of The Horse and His Boy, probably to give the Pevensie actors time to age a bit more before filming. On the other hand, Douglas Gresham has mentioned on different occasions filming either The Magician's Nephew or The Horse and His Boy next, so clearly the production has not decided for sure yet.

We are not able to provide members of the general public with email contact information for the actors or producers of the film, but we do have some mailing addresses you may use to contact some of the castmembers. These addresses are from FanMail.biz. Click here and scroll down for mailing instructions.

Ben Barnes
c/o Creative Artists Management
1st Floor
55-59 Shaftesbury Avenue
London, W1D 6LD
United Kingdom

Skandar Keynes
c/o Hamilton Hodell
5th Floor
66-68 Margaret Street
London, W1W 8SR
United Kingdom

Georgie Henley
c/o Hamilton Hodell
5th Floor
66-68 Margaret Street
London, W1W 8SR
United Kingdom

Will Poulter
c/o Hamilton Hodell
5th Floor
66-68 Margaret Street
London, W1W 8SR
United Kingdom

Mailing Address Links for:
Michael Apted
Liam Neeson
Bill Nighy
Shane Rangi