Narnia will only be a trilogy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
the whole of narnia is six books i think. far from being only a trilogy.
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.
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