Edmund a Problem for Prince Caspian

With The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian set to enter production this February, associate producer from Walden Media, Bob Beltz, has popped up to explain what challenges they face in making a Narnia sequel. One such problem is the kids. All four are returning to the film and, since they were young, a couple years is like a decade on growth.

Bob Beltz Updates on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The good people over at InfuzeMagazine recently sat down with Bob Beltz to discuss a few of his upcoming projects including Prince Caspian.

After confirming that the film's production date was this month, Beltz went on to discuss the finished script for Caspian.

It's pretty close. Andrew Adamson is gonna direct again. Most of the same crew is working on this one. Mark Johnson will produce again. A lot of the cast and crew will be the same. Now, I don't think that will the case for all seven. I don't think Andrew Adamson wants to spend the rest of his life on this one series.

But the script... let me put it this way: All of the elements from the book are present. It's not as easy of a book to adapt as The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe was simply because it has a little bit of a different structure and Andrew wanted to rearrange some of the elements for dramatic effect. But everything that is in the book will be in the film.

One problem the film will encounter are the children or, more specifically, Edmund (Skandar Keynes). Being the second youngest of the cast, Keynes will look er, different for the second installment.

And we're actually using the same four kids and I know that three of them actually look almost the same as they did. Skandar [Keynes] who played Edmund has grown about seven inches and looks like a full blown adolescent now. In the Lewis story, there's only a year that has taken place between the first and second book and I think that will just get left a little open ended. The big challenge is going to be Edmund I think.

Beltz goes on to confirm that the third Narnia installment, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has already been greenlit. He also says that the next two films will be filmed in a Lord of the Rings-like fashion, with each coming out only a year apart.

Thanks to 'Samantha' for the heads up on the link found at CS.