Narnia 3 director?

Source: NarniaWeb, Dark Horizons by: Omar Aviles

Like Lionsgate and the SAW franchise, Disney is wasting no time making sure they milk every last penny of that crazy CHRONICLES OF NARNIA money. According to NarniaWeb, Disney's already assigned a director to the third cinematic installment in the C.S. Lewis fantasy series, THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, and while cattle prods to the testicles failed to elicit a name for said director from NarniaWeb's source, we do know that it won't be THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE and PRINCE CASPIAN helmer Andrew Adamson. The source did reveal, however, that pre-production is already underway on DAWN TREADER. The story, it seems, takes place across several vastly different Narnian islands so scouting is being done to find suitable locations. In this installment, however, Lewis shaved the excess Pevensie fat and left only Lucy and Edmond roaming the islands of Narnia with Prince Caspian. Speaking of which, the film in which he takes center stage, which is currently filming, is slated for release May 16th, 2008.

Dawn Treader Begins

Third Narnia gets new director.

by Paul Davidson

April 10, 2007 - The accelerated production schedule for The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader appears to be going ahead as planned. As we reported earlier, Walden Media and Disney are hoping to release Narnia films roughly one year apart from each other. Given the complexity of these big-budget, effects-laden films, that means overlapping production schedules. Dawn Treader is expected to begin filming soon after the Prince Caspian shoot ends, utilizing a separate crew and director.

Sources have supplied additional confirmation of this to the NarniaWeb.com website, stating that a new director has already been chosen for the third film, and that pre-production work is underway. Exactly who has been selected to helm the picture remains secret for now, but it's been known for some time that Andrew Adamson would probably step down as director after Prince Caspian was completed.

While production on Caspian wraps up the New Zealand portion of its schedule and heads to the Czech Republic and Slovenia, Walden Media's location scouts are already on the prowl seeking out prime locales for the Dawn Treader's fantastic voyage. That story takes place largely at sea and on various tropical islands, and regions that have been suggested as potential shooting locations include the Australian coast, the Bahamas, and Malta.