{"id":335,"date":"2009-02-26T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/02\/voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-gets-a-rewrite\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:16:00","slug":"voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-gets-a-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/02\/voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-gets-a-rewrite.html","title":{"rendered":"Voyage of the Dawn Treader gets a rewrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SSeEUYy589I\/AAAAAAAACGU\/OduMp5nxqro\/s1600-h\/cap1003.bmp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 225px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SSeEUYy589I\/AAAAAAAACGU\/OduMp5nxqro\/s400\/cap1003.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">The first draft \u2014 or one of the first drafts, at any rate \u2014 was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/newsbites-religulous-lincoln-treader.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steven Knight<\/a> (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/amazing-anachronism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazing Grace<\/a><\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/newsbites-trek-genies-bush-cleanflicks.html#2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eastern Promises<\/a><\/i>).  The next draft was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/fox-picks-up-voyage-of-dawn-treader.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard LaGravanese<\/a> (<i>The Fisher King<\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/newsbites-de-carlo-devil-children.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freedom Writers<\/a><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, reports <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118000632.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i>, the <i>next<\/i> draft of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Chronicles of Narnia:<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/disney-walden-part-ways-on-dawn-treader.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/a><\/i> will be written by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/another-movie-based-on-real-life.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Petroni<\/a>, whose credits include <i>The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys<\/i> and <i>Anne Rice\u2019s Queen of the Damned<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Petroni reportedly got the gig because the folks at Fox were impressed with his rewrites of Kevin Lima\u2019s <i>Afterlife<\/i> and the Julia Roberts vehicle <i>Daniel Isn\u2019t Talking<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Walden Media hopes to start shooting the film in the summer and release it to theatres sometime around Christmas 2010 \u2014 five years after <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/random-thought-of-day.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a><\/i> came out, and right around the same time Warner Brothers plans to release the first part of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/harry-potter-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harry Potter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/harry-potter-and-longest-gap-between.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and the Deathly Hallows<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first draft \u2014 or one of the first drafts, at any rate \u2014 was written by Steven Knight (Amazing Grace, Eastern Promises). The next draft was written by Richard LaGravanese (The Fisher King, Freedom Writers). Now, reports Variety, the next draft of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voyage of the Dawn Treader gets a rewrite<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first draft -- or one of the first drafts, at any rate -- was written by Steven Knight (Amazing Grace, Eastern Promises). 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