New Trailer Makes VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER Look Actually Awesome

The Chronicles of Narnia films have always been sort of second class citizens, lagging well behind the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series. I enjoyed the first one well enough, and I kind of really dug the second one if only because it was fucking bonkers (at the end of the movie Jesus forms out of the water of a river and EATS PEOPLE), but this has not been a series that’s stayed on my radar all that much. So much so that I kept forgetting that it moved from Disney to Fox and that there’s a third film coming this Christmas.

I imagine that unless The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a major success this is the end of the series and we’ll never get CS Lewis’ complete seven book cycle on screen. But judging by this trailer Voyage has a real chance, because it actually looks pretty awesome. The book was always one of the best Narnia stories, with lots of adventure and weird lands and travel, and a lot of that seems to have been translated. Michael Apted, famous for his Up series of docs as well as a mixed bag of narrative films, takes the reigns for this one and seems to have done well. At least judging by these few minutes.