The World Is Not Enough

There's good news for fans of raffish rodent Reepicheep: 20th Century Fox has picked up the rights to the Chronicles Of Narnia series and started work on a script for Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.We're hoping Fox can help bring the magic back to Narnia, after the gritty-yet-strangely underwhelming Prince Caspian. They'll be aided and abetted by a more adventuresome storyline, with Dawn Treader reuniting the younger Pevensies with Caspian on a seaborne quest to find Narnia's seven lost lords.Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley return, joined by Will Poulter, Son Of Rambow's biffer-in-a-beret. Poulter plays Eustace Clarence Scrubb, the Pevensies' deeply disgruntled cousin. No word yet on whether Eddie Izzard will return to voice the punchy mouse, but Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough, Enigma) has signed on to direct.The plan is to start shooting Dawn Treader in Australia this summer once all »

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Michael Petroni has come on board to write the next installment in "The Chronicles of Narnia franchise - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Petroni’s credits include The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Queen of the Damned and the upcoming Sarah Michelle Gellar thriller Possession. In Voyage, Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world. Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley are reprising their roles as Caspian, Edmund and Lucy, respectively. Will Poulter (Son of Rambo) is joining the cast and will portray Eustace. The film found new life at the end of January when Fox agreed to finance the project. In December Disney decided »
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the series of films based on the bestselling books by Cs Lewis, began principal photography on location in Queensland, Australia, on Monday, July 27. Filming will conclude in November 2009, with a year-long post-production schedule leading to the film's global release in December 2010.
This time around — Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb — find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Joining forces once again with their royal friend Prince Caspian and the warrior mouse Reepicheep, they are whisked away on a mysterious mission to the Lone Islands, and beyond. On this bewitching voyage that will test their hearts and spirits, the trio will face magical Dufflepuds, sinister slave traders, roaring dragons and enchanted merfolk. Only an entirely uncharted journey to Aslan's »

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