Yahoo has debuted another trailer for Fox’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is set to hit theaters on December 10 as the studio has picked up where Disney left off after the Mouse House decided not to make the third film in the franchise after Prince Caspian underperformed in 2008.
I actually had a chance to see about 25 minutes or so of Dawn Treader about two weeks ago at a special sneak preview and it’s pretty hard to get a very good idea of just how good a film is when they decide to show you virtually the entire film with something like seven, three-minute scenes with a narrator filling in the blanks in-between. I will say the visual effects look very good, particularly a scene with some kind of a sea monster battling a dragon. But as far as the gauging the story, it appears to be an island-hopping feature that takes Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley) all across Narnia with their cousin, Eustace Scrubb (played with a mild annoyance by Will Poulter) looking for the seven swords of a group of lost lords necessary to lift some magic spell.
Pretty standard stuff it seems, but I have never read the book and a look online leads me to believe the book has them looking for the actual lords and not the swords.
Back again are Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian, Simon Pegg voices the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep, Liam Neeson voices Aslan and Tilda Swinton is back as the White Witch, although I didn’t get to see any scenes with her in them.
Among other scenes featured, I saw the opening scene that sends Edmund, Lucy and Eustace into Narnia and onto the Dawn Treader where they meet up with Caspian. Another featured Reepicheep having a sword fight with Eustace after he’s caught stealing food. Lucy seems to have some self-esteem issues and wishes she was as pretty as her sister Susan (Anna Popplewell) who appears to hardly be in the film. One character becomes the dragon I referred to in the fight with the sea monster and Aslan’s home is revealed to be just beyond a massive, stationary tidal wave (see picture above)… although I never saw what was on the other side.
It was all fine and dandy, but honestly I’m trying to push it out of my mind so I can go into the film as fresh as possible.
Along with the trailer, which I have featured directly below, I’ve also added three international posters to this post, all courtesy of IMPAwards, which is where you can see a larger version of the one that leads off this article. The other two posters are directly below the new trailer. Give it a watch and see what you think.
Are you still anticipating the new Narnia or is this a franchise you’ve pretty much written off?
