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

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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.

Comments

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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.

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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*