Interesting Tidbits On Rhince and Rynelf

NarniaWebber icarus stumbled across the blog of one of the Telmarine crew members working on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In this blog he confirms what roles Rhince and Rynelf will have for the movie. If you are avoiding spoilers for the movie, you may wish to stop reading here as both characters have been changed.

From the blog of Mirko Grillini (who plays “The Belligerent Telmarine”):

Arthur [Angel] plays Rhince in the film, joining the crew on board of the Dawn Treader to begin his voyage looking for his wife.

Narnia has now reopened the door to [Tony Nixon’s] screen performance abilities with his role of Rynelf, the right hand of Captain Drinian (played by Gary Sweet). He is effectively my boss on the boat

For those of you who follow the discussions on the forum, we’ve long suspected that Rhince might be the father to Gael based on the video clip here where the two jump off the side of the ship to swim out to Gael’s mother.

We’d also noticed that Rhince never appears in a typical sailors costume unlike the rest of the crew, and rather appears to be a blacksmith or some other craftsman.

So this blog has confirmed that the role of Rhince has been changed from the book and Rynelf will be taking his place as First Mate. Should be interesting to see how they do this come Dec 2010!

Huge thanks to icarus for the find!