From ComingSoon.net:
Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media have confirmed that for budgetary and logistical reasons the Burbank-based studio is not exercising its option to co-produce and co-finance The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with Walden. The Hollywood Reporter says the third installment was in preproduction and set for a spring shoot for a planned May 2010 release. The development puts the participation of the talent attached in doubt, adds the trade. Michael Apted was on board to direct a script by Steven Knight. The key players of the second installment, Prince Caspian -- Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell -- were to return for the third film. Walden has a strong relationship with the C.S. Lewis estate and will shop Treader in hopes of finding a new partner. The most likely candidate at this stage is Fox, which markets and distributes Walden fare under the Fox Walden banner. Any partnership on a "Narnia" movie will require a substantial investment, however. Caspian, which filmed in the Czech Republic, Mexico and New Zealand, cost $200 million. The first film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was shot mostly in New Zealand for $180 million.
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