Thanks to NarniaWeb we now have our first look at Skandar filming Voyage of the Dawn treader! There is also a video of a sword fight between Skandar and Ben being filmed.

As you may already be aware, Skandar’s birthday is just around the corner and we haven’t organised a birthday project for this year as of yet. For Skandar’s birthday last year we put together a scrapbook of messages that were then sent to him which took a lot of time to organise. As neither Sam or I has the time this year and have been very busy, unfortunately we have not been able to put anything together to send him to mark his eighteen birthday.

However, our lovely visitor Shannon is putting together a sort of last minute birthday project on our behalf. The idea is to send a video compilation of birthday wishes to Skandar from our visitors. If you would like to participate, please upload a video with your message (no longer than 30 seconds, and make sure you have uploaded it somewhere first – mediafire.com or sendspace.com would be preferable) and email it to birthday09@skandar.net! So get thinking, and again we apologise for the incredibly late notice!

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the epic series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, will begin principal photography on location in Queensland, Australia, today – July 27, 2009. The production, a joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Walden Media, continues the franchise which commenced with the spectacular, Oscar-winning 2005 release, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and its 2008 follow-up, Prince Caspian, whose combined global boxoffice gross tops $1.2 billion.

This time around – Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb – find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world. Joining forces once again with their royal friend Prince Caspian and the warrior mouse Reepicheep, they are whisked away on a mysterious mission to the Lone Islands, and beyond. On this bewitching voyage that will test their hearts and spirits, the trio will face magical Dufflepuds, sinister slave traders, roaring dragons and enchanted merfolk. Only an entirely uncharted journey to Aslan’s Country – a voyage of destiny and transformation for each of those aboard the Dawn Treader – can save Narnia, and all the astonishing creatures in it, from an unfathomable fate.

Veteran filmmaker Michael Apted (the 007 epic “The World Is Not Enough,” “Gorillas in the Mist,” “Coal Miner’s Daughter”) is at the helm of the new Narnia venture. Returning as the Pevensie children are Georgie Henley as Lucy and Skandar Keynes as Edmund. Ben Barnes (“Easy Virtue,” “Dorian Gray”) reprises the role of Caspian. Cousin Eustace will be played by UK native Will Poulter (“Son of Rambow”).

The full news article can be read here

We finally have a new layout! I am aware it is very overdue, haha. I’m still fixing some of the pages so not everything works yet but it will be soon. Hope you like it!

It is also worth mentioning that we recently surpassed 2 million hits which is really amazing, huge thanks to everyone who visits!

Lots more pictures from Skandar’s visit to William Tyndale School as part of The Great Plant Hunt campaign have been added to the gallery!

Launched in 2008, Connect2earth, an online environmental community where you can tell the world why you care about the environment and why it should be protected is now entering a new phase.

The new service links you directly with friends and the world’s top environmental experts to discuss renewable energy, the species extinction crisis and climate change among other topics. You can debate, learn and share information by posting text, images, audio and video material and then follow the discussion live as it plays out on the web or on your mobile phone.

connect2earth community members, together with a jury of green experts, will then pick a winning contribution. The winner could win a trip to be part of an official delegation to the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen later this year, or even get first-hand experience on a conservation project somewhere in the world.

Skandar is urging you to go www.connect2earth.org for your say in the future of our planet!