this is going to be a disaster. oh my god.

[bedlamsbard]

New writer hire puts Narnia: Dawn Treader back on track.

Guys. Not only did Adamson leave, but now the writer left too. This is a RECIPE for disaster.

AND it's the writer who wrote Queen of the Damned, too. That was NOT a good movie.

*facepalms immensely* At least the boys are still going to be pretty.

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[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Alas.

I still keep clinging to a faint hope that, now they're going to be filming in Australia, goes along the lines of: "Australia's next door to New Zealand, maybe Adamson's therefore going to be a more hands-on kind of executive producer than he would have been if they'd filmed it halfway around the world."

I think I'll add a little "and maybe he'll do some last minute script doctoring as well".

What I really want is for everyone who made the first two films to be reunited to make the third (I'm going to miss not having a Harry Gregson-Williams soundtrack too), but I suppose that the fact that they're now throwing new money at the film means that they are at least serious about trying to get it made. And to be honest, I'm not desperately surprised that they've spent two years tussling with the script. While Dawn Treader rates highly as a favourite book in the series, I don't think it's any easier to turn into a movie than Caspian - it doesn't have the problem of very little happening except in flashback, but it is highly episodic.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

WHAT. Harry Gregson-Williams left too? OH LORD WHY.

Why can't the PTB look at LotR and take a lesson from that, about keeping the same people on the project? (Which, okay, Adamsonm left of his own free will, and I'm supposing the writer and Gregson-Williams did too, but still.)

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

I think it's a case of the new director wanting to bring in his own people to do the principal jobs. David Arnold has worked with Apted before, more than once.

As far as I know Weta and the costume and makeup people are still supposed to be working on it though. *fingers crossed*

I wish that they could have kept the same team together at least through to the end of Dawn Treader and what I tend to think of as the Pevensie trilogy. The mood seems to shift a little when you get to The Silver Chair, and I think I'd have found a change at that point less daunting.

Still, at least Adamson is still involved, even if at one remove. I tend to think of this version of Narnia as being strongly his vision of it, in the same way as LotR was Peter Jackson's, and half the allure of either one was the opportunity to peep through their eyes and see how they saw the source material.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Which -- okay, understandable. *winces* Yet still -- I mean, at least in my eyes there's a definite shift between the tone of PC and VotDT; they're not close to being the same kind of story, not the way LWW and PC were. (Also, it being me, la la la, Aslan Conspiracy Theory, so on and so forth.) SC is closer to VotDT than it is to PC or LWW. (And we have already seen elsewhere what I think of LB's tone -- it's a LWW/PC problem that Aslan tried to patch with a Scrubb&Pole solution, and that ended the world!)

At least there's Adamson. *clings*