Is Disney ready to give up on their Chronicles of Narnia franchise? That’s the story being told today by the guys over at JimHillMedia. They’ve long claimed to be Disney insiders, and while they don’t offer any specific sources to back up their claims, they say that Disney is ready to pull the plug on the whole thing after the third movie Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
What they don’t do is offer any convincing reason for why Disney might choose not to make all seven of the Narnia books into films. Apparently Disney is really hot to get their long-rumored John Carter of Mars movies going, and to do it they may drop Narnia to put their focus there. Unless of course the next two Narnia movies do such huge box office that Disney is forced to make another one. Didn’t the first one already do huge box office? And aren’t they a major film studio? Can’t they do two major film productions at once?
Basically, Jim Hill’s story boils down to the rather unbelievable notion that Disney is simply getting bored with Narnia and so they won’t keep making them. While that may actually be a pretty good idea, since the quality of the books drops precipitously after Dawn Treader, I have a hard time believing this is what’s actually going on here.
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1. It would make sense to drop the series after Dawn Treader because the other four books in the series follow entirely different characters and two of them(The Last Battle and Magicians Nephew) are probably unfilmable.
2. I thoroughly disagree with you that the quality of the series dropped after the Dawn Treader. By far my favorite of the series is The Silver Chair. Also, The Last Battle and the Magicians Nephew are clearly the most thematically daring of the set.
Well Jim Hill isn't the most reliable guy in the world so he might be talking out of his ass again. However, I do think that stopping after Dawn Treader makes sense. Yet, I can't imagine Disney leaving money on the table. If they think money can be made from the other films, they will milk the hell out of them.
From NarniaWeb.com:
Disney was kind enough to contact us and inform us that it was completely untrue. They still plan to support the Narnia films as long as the fans do. http://www.narniaweb.com/wordonthestreet.asp?m=3&y=2008&id=1514
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Is Disney ready to give up on their Chronicles of Narnia franchise? That’s the story being told today by the guys over at JimHillMedia. They’ve long claimed to be Disney insiders, and while they don’t offer any specific sources to back up their claims, they say that Disney is ready to pull the plug on the whole thing after the third movie Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
March 18th, 2008 at 16:58
A couple of things
1. It would make sense to drop the series after Dawn Treader because the other four books in the series follow entirely different characters and two of them(The Last Battle and Magicians Nephew) are probably unfilmable.
2. I thoroughly disagree with you that the quality of the series dropped after the Dawn Treader. By far my favorite of the series is The Silver Chair. Also, The Last Battle and the Magicians Nephew are clearly the most thematically daring of the set.