With Bond, I was following eighteen movies. Still, did Narnia give you more leeway than Bond? With both Bond and Narnia, you’re coming into a series after the rules have been established by other producers and filmmakers. They may have equal footing with adults when it comes to the years, but that’s irrelevant it’s not the years, it’s the attitude. So maybe that’s the lesson I learned doing those films, and it put me in decent shape to direct people who aren’t adults. It kind of pisses me off when you see people talking down to kids and teenage actors, and I learned doing the documentaries that you get nothing out of people that you patronize, nothing at all. I learned that you should never talk down to them. Having made the Up films, does that give you additional perspective when it comes to directing young children?

She tends to unload that to the princes rather than schlep out on a winter’s night to the West End to see a movie, so it was great that she showed up.

She doesn’t do that many these days, so it was an honor to have her. I’ve done royal premieres before, but not with her. Did she attend when you premiered The World Is Not Enough? So was Dawn Treader then smooth sailing? Not quite, the candid Apted told Vulture.Ĭongratulations on snagging the queen for the premiere of the movie. Fox picked it up, cut the budget, and replaced franchise helmer Andrew Adamson with the British director Michael Apted, who knows a thing or two about what works in a long-running movie series (he masterminded the Up documentary franchise, which tracks real people in seven-year installments, and he also directed a James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough). Lewis franchise, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, its expensive follow-up, Caspian, underperformed so badly that Disney dropped the series entirely.

Despite the windfall generated by the first filmic adaptation of the classic C.S.

Since the Pevensie children last ventured into the magical land of Narnia for 2008’s Prince Caspian, there have been some changes in front of the camera - Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) are older in the new sequel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and instead of returning to Narnia with their older siblings, they’ve brought their bratty cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) with them - but none of those changes compare to what went on behind the scenes.

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