Dawn Treader Footage: Another Positive Impression [Updated]

Last week while previewing Dawn Treader footage for NarniaFans.com, Paul Martin met another Paul . . . Focus on the Family writer Paul McCusker. Below is an excerpt of his impressions of the footage. Click here to read the full report on McCusker’s website.

They talked about their desire to get this picture back to the sensibilities of “The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe,” to recapture the “magic” and get away from the action-adventure-teen-heart-throb approach of “Prince Caspian.” They also acknowledged the difficulties of bringing the story to the screen, since the book wasn’t easily conducive to a film’s structure. Yes, changes have been made, but those changes are expected to be in keeping with the spirit of the book.  [...] We got to see only a few minutes of behind-the-scenes footage and five minutes of highlights and it was so impressive that we were left wanting to see much more.

UPDATE: on his Examiner.com blog Mark Sommer offers more information on just who McCusker is. He’s the “vice president of Global Product Development and Innovation” for Focus on the Family, as well as a “long-time writer, director and producer for the ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ series. McCusker also directed the Chronicles of Narnia radio plays.