I think that they should make it VERY SCARY!!!...Well maybe not TOO scary for younger kids that'll be watching. But it's kind of hard for me to imagine this scene for the movie. And yeah, they should expand it. I think it can tell a little more about each character in a way. I dunno.

Good topic, 7chronicles. We had a similar poll back in August of last year. The topic title was: VDT The Dark Island: Better less than more? Old poll link

My thoughts at the time were:

Since the Dark Island should be a very tense, mysterious, and dramatic sequence in the film, it needs to be done just right. I think letting the audience use its imagination as well as the crew of the Dawn Treader would be the best way to go.

As the book emphasizes sounds more, I am in favor of the crew of The Dawn Treader hearing things as well as the audience. It would be more effective and nerve-racking if nothing was shown

Haven't changed my mind. Less is more. Just the sounds and character's reactions should be scary and intense enough.

All I say is that they should NOT land on the island and explore.
I'm 100% against that. It needs to be like the book, which is what I voted for. I love GlimGlum's thoughts on it though, and the book supports it very well.

Otherwise I'd have to change my vote to "make it scarier"

I love the part in this scene with Lucy and the Albatross. And how Lucy is in the Crow's nest. She is almost alone, and isolated from the other well known characters on the deck below. She is cut off from everyone she knows, in a sense. For me, that also adds an element of fear. It's just the feeling of it. It also adds an almost omnipotent view point, which C.S. Lewis used to good effect in the book. She definitely has to be in the Crow's Nest in the movie.

The reason I thought they might land on the island in the movie was because a while back when that Mermaid concept art was put out on NarniaWeb and then removed, I missed it and went looking for it.
I went on IMDB and found a link to the art but along with the mermaid concept was a few other pieces that featured what looked like Edmund, Caspian, Lucy, Eustace and Drinian in some sort of large cave with a rock that looked like a large dragon head.
Anyway the only place I could think the concept could be for was the Dark Island. I wish I could post the pictures, I saved them, but I don't think I'm aloud to post them because when I sent them into NarniaWeb they were never posted, so unless someone can tell me other wise, I can't post them. But I would like to if someone could tell me if I were allowed.

I actually think this is one of the islands that could be cut. I still don't believe they will keep all the islands. The problem would be that they find a lost lord on this island or around it. I don't think they will cut it, but i could see the loss of it changing the story very little. For me, the most important islands are the Lone Island, Dragon Island, Deathwater Island, and Ramandu's Island, as well as the worlds end which isn't an island, but is important.

To lose any of the other islands would not be that great of a loss for me.

7chronicles, that sounds like some of the concept art for the leaked script from awhile back. That's all been scrapped.

I want it to be like the book. I don't particularly want some massive EPIC scene in which the Dawn Treader crew battles an army of nightmares or something.

Oh, good, because I was a little worried they would overdue this part. I'm a bit more relieved that it's nothing I hope it stays like the book, and I like your idea GlimGlum, let the audience hear what the crew hears That will be scary especially in the dark theater!

I believe that it need to be quite scary, as each of the crew members will be experiencing their own dreams, and its a scene that calls for some strong acting from all members of the crew, espeically for Lucy. It kinda needs to have that eeire, uneasy, suspenseful air, not the terrifying, monster air that we have had from LWW and PC (White Witch anyone??)

If they cut this scene I will be very upset. Very VERY upset. Heads will roll.

If they cut this scene I will be very upset. Very VERY upset. Heads will roll.

This is one scene I am really looking forward to. And since they hired Bruce Spence to play Lord Rhoop, I think it far more likely than not that we will see The Dark Island scene on the big screen.

I just can't imagine the Dawn Treader picking up Lord Rhoop from Burnt Island or any other for that matter. That would be too much to take.

They have absolutely GOT to keep Reep's speech! That is the best part of the whole scene... I'm going to die if they don't!

The best way to do this scene is to copy it right out of the book. Anything more and they will really screw it up. I think this part could be really great or really awful depending on which the filmmakers choose.

Keeping it as close to the book as possible will make it creepy, but not too much so. I'd like it to be very dark with only the lanterns lighting up some of the ship. I think they should have the crew hear things and react to imaginary things, but not actually show people's nightmares. If they showed a huge pair of scissors opening and shutting, no one would take it seriously. And please, no big nightmarish army that they have to battle, sounds like something Potc would do, cheesy and unnecessary.

They could have Eustace have a ngihtmare about a bad haircut or about who he used to be before Dragon Island. They could have Edmund have a nightmare of who he used to be in LWW before his redemption. I woudl love to see their characters and how they changed.

I would like to see the scene like the book did it. It's one of those scenes where very little happens, but it's still so scary. In fact, it was the scariest part of the book for me, even before the sea monstar. I've had some pretty horrible nightmares, and thinking of those coming true..