A few weeks ago, we reported that the Walt Disney Company was considering ending their big-screen Chronicles of Narnia films after the third installment. At the time, nothing could be confirmed though reports indicated Disney was planning to phase out Narnia as a franchise and lend its support to the upcoming John Carter of Mars as a potential franchise.
Now it appears at least one part of that report is true. According to a report from last weekend’s Narnia panel at New York Comic Con on FirstShowing.net, producer Mark Johnson confirmed that the Narnia movie franchise will wrap up after the third installment Voyage of the Dawn Trader. Johnson said there are “no plans” to continue the series beyond Dawn Trader, which will begin filming next year of a 2010 release.
However, that doesn’t mean that there’s no hope for Narnia fans to see all seven books adapted for the big-screen. As always, it all comes down to money. Should the upcoming Prince Caspian and Dawn Trader become blockbusters, there is a chance that Disney and Walden Media could decide to continue the Narnia films.
In more positive Narina news, a new trailer for Prince Caspian debuted today.
Prince Caspian opens in theaters on May 16.
Scooter says
🙁
Although I’d rather they not do the later books at all if they can’t do them right. There’s no way that I know of to do the Magician’s Nephew or the Last Battle with current technology.
skyjedi2005 says
the last battle would be a good film as it bears on the state of our own darkness in this world, and deals with the book of revelation from the bible where you have the false and real christs. instead in the book it is the fake and real aslan.
i can’t see it being made into a film however with the militant atheist hijacking of society in this country and the embrace of wickedness in the form of the golden compass and it’s sequels.
the only reason the first film was true to the christ story was the box office success of the passion of the christ. these hollywood types are only in it for the money.
even peter jackson’s adaptation of tolkiens lotr managed to remove all christian symbology and essence from those stories which make the books so wonderful to me.
skyjedi2005 says
i hope disney loses the rights to John Carter as it is one of my favorite sci fi books.
a princess of mars is a true classic and unworthy of disney hacks. i mean about a decade ago they tried to have tom cruise as john carter, horror of horrors. nutcase cult member as fighting man john carter.
skyjedi2005 says
i am also glad disney’s version of starblazers hit the skids, they were going to replace the space battleship yamato with the uss arizona and have all bad american actors.
skyjedi2005 says
the tarzan animations were a good cash cow for both disney and erb inc. but were bastardizations of the masters works.
i think ed himself would have been outraged at disneys crappy versions.
which makes me also happy that disney could not get the rights to tolkiens works because he was outraged at their handling of the brothers grimm classic snow white.
skyjedi2005 says
if pixar did an animated version of john carter with real voice talent i’d get behind it, but not the disney studios crappy direct to video quality movies.
they made all their money in recent years on pixar and studio ghibli, with the once exception of chicken little. all their films are box office failures as animations.
pg-13 killing, sex innuendo romps with gay guy pirate johhny depp chracters are not animated so that do not count. i guess you could probably make a case for the live action enchanted. i hate musicals masquerading as animations, if disney took out all their cutsey crap, dumb songs, and did quality animation for adults to tell a story then i may buy a ticket to their movie.
anime like ghost in the shell, akira, and princess mononoke, and nausicaa of the valley of the wind are a million times better than anything disney will ever do.
skyjedi2005 says
anyway the pevensie family is only in three of the books as fair as im aware, lion the witch and the wardrobe, prince caspian and last battle.
never read voyage of the dawn treader, if they are in that that makes four. then there is the horse and his boy, the magicians nephew, and the silver chair. lion was the first written but is not chronologically first as far as im aware magicians nephew comes first.
skyjedi2005 says
the whole of narnia is six books i think. far from being only a trilogy.
Jon says
Voyage of the Dawn Treader has just the younger brother and sister along with a snotty nosed cousin.
Includes some dragons in that story also.
In believe after the Prince Caspian book the older sister and brother are not even involved. The brother does not reappear until the final book.
That one was the hardest for me to get through.
Erfinde says
you ppl must be kidding, all 4 children are in the first two books,the is lion witch n’ ward, an prince caspian, they do all return in the last battle along with reepiceep, and they have a quarter of the horse and his boy. the proffeser is the boy from the magician’s nephew, mrs mcreedy is polly from the same. eustace joins them in voyage, and then returns with jill pole in the silver chair, which is placed 70 odd years after voyage. and they can make the last battle with the current tech, the hardest grapics would be from the magicians nephew, when aslan creates the world of narnia. this too can still be done with todays tech. and done well. it would still be nice if theyd stick a little closer to the origanal story for the voyage movie. want to see the dragon and sea serpant. then there are the dufflepods and the fallen star. plus the island in the fog which will be a great scene. cant wait to see reep in it as well.
the whole series is seven books, by the way… i think you could have check that out before you just started typeing…
and in cronilogical order they are:
The Magician’s Nephew
The horse and his Boy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the dawn treader (My favorite)
The Silver Chair (My wifes favorite)
and The Last Battle
and last but not least, Jon, peter and susan were in caspian. susan did not kiss caspian, and the army did not try to assasinate miraz. and the 4 children spent the first night eating roasted apples from thier own ancient garden.
now that we cleared that up, i can say disney should pursue all of the SEVEN books as movies, i we will be eagerly awaiting the next installments.