Barnes ‘Intrigued and Anxious’ About Dawn Treader

Edward Douglas from ComingSoon.net recently interviewed Ben Barnes about projects he is working on, Easy Virtue and Dorian Gray. At the end of the interview, Ben talks a little about Voyage of the Dawn Treader. When we interviewed Ben in November, he had not seen a script. It appears that has not changed. Here are a few highlights:

CS: Of course, you’re going to go shoot “Dawn Treader” very soon. Have you read a script or started training or anything for it yet? Obviously, it was pushed back six or seven months.
Barnes: Twice. It was supposed to go the January before last, that was the original plan.

CS: Is there anything in the book you’re excited about doing?
Barnes: Yeah, there’s a lot of it! Obviously, I’m hoping Ramandu’s daughter is hot… there’s the beginning where he dives in and saves Lucy, there’s all the cool stuff with the golden pond. I think the Lucy stuff, and the monopods where she goes to the Professor’s room and sees her past, that’ll be cool. The sea serpent and the mermaids and mermen will be cool.

CS: Well, I’m assuming that it’s basically the book.
Barnes: Yeah, but I’m still very intrigued and anxious about what stuff they’re going to leave… because “Dawn Treader” is such an episodic book. Read a chapter and that’s a kid’s book, and it doesn’t link together as a story. Apart from the fact they’re on this voyage, but you need motivation in a film, so the way they sew it together is going to be the interesting thing.

Read the entire interview here (Scroll to the end to read his VDT comments)