British director Michael Apted on Friday brings out his new “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the third installment in the film series based on the children’s stories by C.S. Lewis.
The movie, which appears in 3D and cost around $140 million to make, arrives in theatres as part of the key holiday film season and Apted, 69, sat down with Reuters to discuss it.
Q: You made significant changes to the original C.S. Lewis story. How did you choose them and was it a difficult process?
A: “When I read it (the book) I was alarmed. I liked very much the story and the tone of it and the color of it and the imagination of it. (But) it was pretty clear to me that there was no drive to it whatsoever.
“It felt very episodic. That’s catastrophic in a movie. You’ve got to have a reason in a movie to go from A to B to C especially in a commercial movie. So that was a big problem.
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