I want them to make it just like the book, except scarier, as a visual adaptation. Sound effects, stuff like that. I don't think they need to show actual nightmares (that would be cheesy), just have startling sounds and show the crew reacting to them. If they could somehow make it as scary onscreen as I felt while reading the book, I will say they have succeeded. As long as it's not cheesy.

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The Dark Island sounds like it's going to be very challenging to dramatize. I wouldn't expect them to follow the book exactly. It's one thing to write it. It's another thing to visualize it.

I think they need to basically start from scratch.

Maybe they should turn it into a huge battle, with the Crew battling their own Nightmares, which would give plenty of options for weird creatures and add the much needed action in VDT.

EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reepi, I hope that was meant to be a joke!

I'd love to see an intense psychological battle going on here, rather than a physical battle (that's more what I pictured when reading it for the first time).

Keep it like the book, just implement it well!
A little can go a loooong way if done right.
Too many times they try to expand on a scene.
Even ADD stuff by some form of interpretation.
It's not necessary, cause the scene in the book is scary enough.

The way I picture it is... It's extremely dark, maybe even impossible to see anything and there's no music. Then all of a sudden they hear a far off cry...... That's CREEPY!
They just have to give you those uncomfortable moments, and build on that.

- Twinimage

part of me wants it to stay exactly with the book, but a bigger part of me wants it to be scarier!!!!!
the more freaky the better, I say.....

How exactly could it be freakier? Lame CGI monsters running around are trite and have been done billions of times before. The problem with movies nowadays is that everyone seems to think you have to show some horrible monster for something to be scary.

It would be very hard to visualise conflict with people's nightmares since everyone is most frightened by different nightmares. The book account shows that. I don't know how they could do it just like the book, however.

Sound. Sound was a common theme in all of the dreams described. "Do you hear a pair of scissors opening and shutting?" "It's settling on the mast." "The gongs are beginning." "I can hear them crawling up the ship." (not sure if that last one is exactly the way it is in the book, but you get the idea) The ship is completely dark except for two or three lanterns casting an eerie glow. We hear scissors, gongs, unseen things settling on the mast and climbing up the sides of the ship. The cast reacts. Shouting and wailing as they hear their dreams taking form. Everything gets louder and louder. And then, from the fighting top, we hear a single whisper, calling for Aslan. A light shines from the sky. An albatross appears.............Anyway, that's how I always thought it should look on film.

That sounds good, except I've never liked the scissors bit. Eustace must be a real pansy if he's scared of scissors. It's too lame for words.

Try travelling overseas and see if you still think Eustace is a pansy. Thanks to those blokes jailed in UK in the last month, you can't carry adequate supplies of toiletries in your luggage, let alone your hand luggage, whilst sharp objects of any sort are forbidden and can be confiscated. That means scissors, even those little nail clipper things for people without scissors to use. I'd love a Pound Sterling or a Euro for every time I wished I had access to a pair of scissors over the last six weeks, whether to open shop packaging, cutting nails, cleaning up a wound or freeing snagged items. It seems there is a whole world of air travel out there who might be scared of scissors.

That sounds good, except I've never liked the scissors bit. Eustace must be a real pansy if he's scared of scissors. It's too lame for words.

I always imagined that the scissors Eustace were imagining were really huge and could do some damage to the ship, probably the sail(s); maybe even the crew.

Now that would be scary: having a giant pair of scissors opening and closing and making huge scissors sound and coming after you or the ship like that.

But that's just me.

I love the Dark Island chapter in VDT! Just the concept is scary enough - imagine being in a place where all your worst nightmares are coming true, and you can hear them coming true...as if they're all around you...but you can't see them....Woow! Such an eerie feeling.
Reading it in the book is scary enough, and when we see it on screen it'll be even scarier. So I really don't think they need to add too many extra things, like battles, weird monsters, etc. And if all the sounds aren't exactly the same as in the book, that's ok with me.
I want to be really freaked out when I see this scene. I want to have shivers flying up and down my spine. The reason is not because I'm into horror movies, but because this scene has such potential to be extremely powerful, especially when Aslan leads them out in the end! What a way to emphasize God's ability to pull us out of dark places just when we need Him.

The Dark Island sounds like it's going to be very challenging to dramatize. I wouldn't expect them to follow the book exactly. It's one thing to write it. It's another thing to visualize it.

I think they need to basically start from scratch.

That could mean many things. I want the overall layout of events to be identical to the book. They enter the mist. They find Roop. They try to leave. They require the help of Aslan.

Granted though, it'll be a challenge. Maybe starting from scratch and then revising to make it closer would be the best route.