News has just come out of Comic-Con 2007 that all seven of the Chronicles of Narnia will be filmed. They also added that from Prince Caspian onward, all of the films will be released in May of the following year.
This is very exciting news, and I’m probably the most excited I’ve been, as I now know that I’ll be seeing The Last Battle on the big screen. It’s my personal favorite of the series, and if they get it right, it’s going to be visual effects intensive (not that the rest of the films are not, it’s just got some elements that will need to be poured over to appear completely realistic).
They did not, however, announce the order of release for the films. Currently, they’ve been releasing the films in the original order of the release of the books. That’s a fantastic way to do it, and I’m glad they chose to do it in that way. If they opt to film the next six films as two trilogies of stories, then The Magician’s Nephew might come before The Horse and His Boy.
I’d actually rather have it continue the traditional release pattern set by C.S. Lewis when the books were released, and have The Horse and His Boy come before The Magician’s Nephew. Then we’ll have the two bookends to the Narnia story come one right after the other.
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From MTV.com:
And, according to director Andrew Adamson and producer Mark Johnson, they’ll be doing it again every year for the next decade.
“As long as you keep embracing these movies, we’ll make all seven,” Johnson told an appreciative audience. “We start the end of January on “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.’ Our goal is to give you [a new] one every May starting [next year].”
The announcement came after a computer pre-visualization which showed the Pevensie children storming King Miraz’s castle alongside Prince Caspian, flying onto the topmost turrets in the talons of giant griffins.
Griffins, yes – but not Gryffindors. Comparing his work on “Narnia” to that OTHER long running fantasy series, Adamson insisted that future “Narnia” films will be both more consistent and more faithfully inclusive to the source than “Harry Potter.”
“‘Harry Potter’ is a different [animal],” he said via satellite from Prague. “C.S Lewis wrote more efficiently [than J.K. Rowling]. We have a chance to embellish, [not exclude].”
I am so excited to hear that they will continue to make the Chronicles of Narnia! I first read them years ago in the original order, then re-read them in chronological order once they were published that way. I have read them all several times. They are probably my favorite novels of all time!
This article is 3 1/2 years old. Is it confirmed that all the Narnia films will be made? Last I heard the studio was waiting on the results of Dawn Treader to determine whether or not they would film anymore.
if only it had turned out this way…………. : (