On Production of The Silver Chair

The Lewis Estate’s seven-year moratorium on Narnia films without Walden Media is still in effect, so “The Silver Chair” cannot be released in theaters before 2018. However, pre-production (scripts, locations, storyboards, casting, etc) has begun. This process usually takes several years.


Do you think Will Poulter, who played Eustace in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, could be back for a role in “The Silver Chair”? This I do not think so, for Will is already 22 and looks too old for young Eustace, even now. By the time filming begins, the producers may think this too.

Could Skandar Keynes (Edmund), Georgie Henley (Lucy), and Ben Barnes (Caspian) have small parts in this new film? Could a final script include Edmund and Lucy Pevensie and a young King Caspian?  When “The Silver Chair” begins casting, the producers may call on Ben. The chances of them calling on Skandar and Georgie are little, though.
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The Silver Chair Movie Is Confirmed

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair is working its way into production now that the C.S. Lewis Company has entered into an agreement to jointly develop and produce the film based on C.S. Lewis’ fourth book.

Gather round, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve... It has been some time since we last heard anything about “The Chronicles of Narnia”.

Many were wondering whether there actually will be a movie for The Silver Chair, but there will be! Or at least, one is planned, which brings up another of the series' problems: the three most obvious films have been made already. “The Magician's Nephew” would have been tricky given that it's a prequel with a different set of characters and a different lot of concerns (not that all that couldn't have been rewritten, of course). “The Silver Chair” will allow the series to again use Eustace Scrubb and Prince Caspian from earlier installments; look out also for the possibility of Tilda Swinton, who has played The White Witch in previous films (including ones whose source books don't feature her), being reused here as The Lady of the Green Kirtle, who is occasionally considered a version of the same character, something the producers will likely seize on. But it's a downright bizarre tale, gloomy and meandering and prominently featuring a melancholic swamp-creature and an insane and tortured prince. Still, it should be a breeze compared to the one that's all about horses and horrible not-quite-Muslims, or the one where everybody dies.

Gordon, Gresham, and Vincent Sieber will all be producers of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, and will work with Mark Gordon’s company on developing the film’s script.

And now we know more about the upcoming Narnia movie, let's hope it's not a complete perversion!

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Movie in Development

The C.S. Lewis Company announced an agreement today with the Mark Gordon Company to bring The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair to the screen.

Gordon (Saving Private Ryan, Speed, Source Code) said in a statement announcing the companies' intent to develop and produce The Silver Chair, "Like many readers, both young and old, I am a huge fan of C.S. Lewis's beautiful and allegorical world of Narnia. These fantasy stories inspire real-world passion among millions of devoted fans around the world. As we prepare to bring the next book to life, we are humbled and excited to contribute to the outstanding legacy of Narnia."

Gordon and Gresham will produce The Silver Chair along with Vincent Sieber, the LA based Director of The C.S. Lewis Company. The screenplay adaptation of C.S. Lewis' fourth Narnia novel is now in development.

No word yet if Fox will return as the distributor of The Silver Chair or if any of the cast from the previous films will reprise their roles. The Silver Chair's returning characters include Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson in the movies), Eustace Scrubb (played by Will Poulter in Dawn Treader), and a now elderly king Caspian (who was portrayed as a young prince in the last two Narnia films by Ben Barnes.

Read more: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-silver-chair-movie-in-development

The 4th Narnian Movie

Walden Media has confirmed to The Christian Post that the fourth Narnian movie will be "The Magician's Nephew," not "The Silver Chair" as originally speculated by many fans.

"We are starting to talk to Fox and talk to the C.S. Lewis estate now about the Magician's Nephew being our next film," said Michael Flaherty.

"If we can all agree to move forward, then what we would do is find someone to write the script. So, it could still be a couple of years."

For the past several months, many Narnia fans were worried whether "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" could muster the box office numbers needed for Walden to produce another movie installment based on the beloved Chronicles of Narnia series.

"Dawn Treader" had a small start in the domestic markets, taking in an underwhelming $24.5 million during the opening weekend in December and now grossing about $107 million. For a 3-D movie that cost $155 million, that isn't good news.

However, the third Narnia installment, which was directed by Michael Apted, has fared better overseas. Recently, it surpassed the $300 million mark in foreign markets, bringing the box office total close to "Prince Caspian's" $419 million, but still much less than "Wardrobe's" $745 million in earnings worldwide.

"That one (Dawn Treader) was a slow burn. It took a while for it to catch on. It did much better overseas for us but it finally ended up in a good place," said Flaherty.

The Magician's Nephew is the sixth book in the seven-title children's book series by C.S. Lewis. The story, a prequel to the popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe book, is about the creation of the magical land of Narnia and how evil entered into the newly formed land. The tale also follows Professor Kirke from the "Wardrobe" as a young boy (Digory) and his introduction to Narnia through a magical ring given to him by his evil Uncle Andrew, a magician.

Flaherty called The Magician's Nephew his favorite book after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

"I love the Magician's Nephew because it's a great origins story. You get to learn so much about where the wardrobe came from, where the lamppost came from, where Narnia came from," he said.

The first two Narnia films were produced by Disney, which severed the partnership with Walden after "Prince Caspian" posted sad results.

Flaherty attributed "Caspian's" dismal performance to a poorly timed summer release and the story's bent on deeper theological principles like waiting on God's timing. He said that Walden has since learned a Christmas release would probably work best with a Narnia film and not to neglect the faith market.

Looking ahead, Walden believes "The Magician's Nephew" has the potential to be a huge hit like "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" because it is the second most popular book in the Narnia series.

Flaherty explained that box office performance for Narnia films appears to mimic the amount of people's interest in the books.

"What's interesting is that the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe over this period of time sold twice as many books as Prince Caspian and it did twice as much at the box office. Prince Caspian sold a third of the books as Dawn Treader and did a third at the box office," he said.

"So while it's not always a correlation between books to film, so far with these first three films, it has been."

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