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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

They ARE filming the books in the correct order - they are using the order in which the books were published, not the chronological order which the books were later rearranged into.

For an indepth discussion of the merits of both book orders, see here:

http://www.rilstone.talktalk.net/narnia.htm

Filming the books on the publishing order also means that the same actors can be in all the movies, since the characters are actually ageing in published order.

ex: The Pevensies age from LWW to dawn treader, then Eustace and Jill age from dawn treader to silver chair, but we then have to come back to the Penvensies as adults in the horse and his boy. The only problem is that we then have to go back in time and see the Penvensies as teenagers and Jill and Eustace as young teenagers in the last battle.

All in all, the publishing order makes for less work in casting.

Filming was originally scheduled to begin in January 2008, with a release date set for 1st May 2009.

However, in consideration of the challenging schedules for the young actors, Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media chose to delay the start of production until summer 2008, and a new release date for the movie was set for May 7, 2010.

Subsequently, Douglas Gresham said that shooting had been delayed once again because of the writers strike.

Ben Barnes later revealed in an interview with RottenTomatoes.com that they plan to start filming in November (2008)

Mark Johnson has since announced (at New York Comic-Con '08) that filming will start in October (2008)

MyEntertainmentWorld.com has since confirmed that filming will begin January 2009.

The release date of May 7th 2010 still stands.

Mark Johnson and Michael Apted originally started scouting locations in Spain and Malta - Douglas Gresham in particular had expressed a strong interest in shooting in Malta. It was then later announced, by special effects producer Howard Berger, that filming was to take place in Malta, Iceland, and Prague.

However, due to the 6 month delay in production of the film (as well as taxes being raised in the Czech Republic) they were forced to switch to filming in the Southern Hempishere, and so began scouting locations in Australia and New Zealand.

Locations reported to have been scouted in New Zealand include - The Bay of Islands, Coromandel, New Plymouth, Hawkes Bay and Gisborne

Locations reported to have been scouted in Australia include - Moreton Bay.

At the New York Comic Con in April 2008, producer Mark Johnson revealed that they had not yet finished scouting locations.

Johnson also revealed that two-thirds of the filming would take place at Baja Stuidos in Roasarito, Mexico, using the giant water tanks used to film "Titanic" (1997) and "Master & Commander" (2003).

Back in early 2007, Warner Roadshow Studios in Australia had mentioned they were interested in attracting the production crews on Voyage of the Dawn Treader to utilize their newly installed water-tank facilities, but evidently, it seems Walden Media have decided not to take them up on the offer.

Sources: NarniaWeb.com

Characters that return for this movie include:

-Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes)

-Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes)

-Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley)

-Reepicheep (voice of Eddie Izzard)

-Aslan (voice of Liam Neeson)

-Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage)

New characters that have yet to be cast include:

-Eustace Scrubb

-Lord Argoz

-Lord Bern

-Chief Voice

-Clipsie

-The Daughter of Ramandu

-Lord Drinian

-Anne Feathertone

-Gumpas

-Lord Octesian

-Pittencream

-Marjorie Preston

-Pug

-Lord Restimar

-Lord Revilian

-Lord Rhoop

-Rynelf

-Alberta Scrubb

-Tacks

Susan and Peter Pevensie are listed in the imdb credits, but it's not confirmed wether they will be back or not.

At the end of Prince Caspian, Aslan tells Peter and Susan that they have both learned all they can from Narnia, and won't need to return.

Nevertheless, Peter will return to Narnia in "The Last Battle". He will be dead then, though.

First, it should be noted that IMDB is for the most part a user-maintained database. Information on in development projects is often unreliable as the site relies on users submitting accurate information. In this instance, the information was likely submitted by someone making a best guess estimate, rather than someone with genuine inside information about the development of the movie.

Secondly, whilst Peter and Susan do not feature in the book, they are mentioned in it. As such there remains an outside possibility that the two characters may feature briefly in the scenes set in England, and in the case of Susan, that she may feature as a vision in the Magician's Book scene. However, every indication so far, from interviews and news reports, indicates that William Moseley and Anna Popplewell will NOT be involved in the movie at all, to any degree.

Between the events of "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian" one year passed in the real world, whilst 1300 years passed in Narnia.

Between the events of "Prince Caspian" and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader, again one year passed in the real world, but this time only 3 years have passed in Narnia.

There is no mathematical relationship to explain the relative time flow between the real world and Narnia - 1 year in the real world does not always equal 1300 years in Narnia.

Why isn't Adam Adamson directing the 3rd Chronicles of Narnia sequel ?