Looks pretty promising. In particular, it doesn’t seem to be shoehorning in any big LOTR-style battles, and it seems to have some of the sense-of-wonder moments that make the book so special (ie, the field of floating flowers).
What do y’all think?
Is Eustace Clarence Scrubbs even in this? I don’t see any hint except in the water-gushing-from-the-painting scene. His character development was a key element of the book (and an expository device for Lewis’ contempt for modernity); it would be a shame if they omitted or downplayed it.
I thought he was a stand-in for St. Paul? Well, no reason he can’t be both.
Never heard that before, but it fits.
Eustace wouldn’t be familiar to the average movie-goer, unlike Lucy and Edmund, whose characters at least appeared in the first two films, so they wouldn’t waste precious trailer time on him. I’m assuming he’s in there, since there IS a third child in the painting scenes.
You would think they’d show the dragon, at least, though.
Right, they focused on the sequel things. Looks like when they go through the darkness and experience their dreams, Edmund is going to see the White Witch again, which does not happen in the book(right?).
You do see Eustace interacting with the Dufflepods or whatever they were called.
Monopods
Definitely in, accoring to the IMDB entry
Brian
Well, it looks good… but the Caspian trailer looked good, too, and the movie was all kinds of dicked up. I’ll reserve further opinion 'til I’ve seen it.
I’m excited either way. It’s my favorite of the books! I did wonder at the fleeting glimpse of Peter & Susan. I guess they will be shown for some reason or another. I do hope it is better than the treatment of PC was, and I’d love if it was even better than LWW!
I don’t like the ‘quest’ thing. They were on a voyage of exploration- they weren’t saving Narnia from anything or anybody. Caspian just felt like wandering, and used finding the exiled Narnian lords as an excuse.
They did show the Dufflepuds. I liked the Dufflepuds. I can’t imagine them not screwing up the Star’s Daughter and the voyage to the end of the world, though.
Voyage is probably my favourite Narnia book. I think I might avoid this movie. Prince Caspian was pretty dreadful.
Looks like they’re really playing up the Magician’s house bit. That is a good thing.
I’ve loved NARNIA for years and I never thought of that!!!
Didn’t he make a vow to find the exiled lords or something?
That was Koriakin’s name for them (they weren’t one-footed before he cast a spell of “uglification” on them), but they called themselves Duffers and struggled with Monopods: “Pomonods, Moneypuds, Poddymons”, and settled on “Dufflepuds” by the end of the chapter.
Yes, exactly - his wicked uncle sent the only seven Telmarine lords who weren’t afraid of the sea on a nice long voyage, and none had ever returned.
I’m quite looking forward to this.
First, you’ve got Andrew Adamson not directing (thank the maker!); instead it’s Michael Apted (the Up doco series, Thunderheart, Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story, etc.).
Second: This is where the book series actually starts getting really good (in fact, all the remaining books are pretty unimpeachable, with The Silver Chair being my absolute favorite (pleasegetmadepleasegetmade!) of the lot).
And third: It’s a rip-roaring tale o’ the sea. How could you screw that up?
[hijack]I was wondering: I can’t be the only person out there who actually sort of liked Prince Caspian, can I? I mean, yes, it was a flawed film with a tacked on LOTR-style battle, but I thought the story was overall better-realized than the anemic LWW (admittedly, though, the source material for both is rather on the thin side).
Also: Any predictions as to whether (assuming VotDT does well enough to greenlight TST) any of the last three books (especially The Magician’s Nephew, with it’s depiction of Aslan singing the world into existence, and the blatant apologetics essay that is The Last Battle) will be made into movies?[/hijack]
Yes, and you can see the empty chairs of those lords in the Prince Caspian movie. He finds all of them, too.
I loved it. I think the main reason it bombed is because they wait too long between sequels.
Dawn Treader will probably struggle as well, since it has again been too long between sequels.
I liked Prince Caspian fine- saw it at the El Capitan in Hollywood. I loved LWW however and my “Hope to God it gets made” is The Last Battle, since I’m a Book of Revelation nut anyway.
Yeah, I can’t imagine not screwing the Star’s Daughter, either.
I liked Caspian more than the other movie because of the added LOTR battles. LWW was painfully boring to me and I think Caspian did well to reverse that.