Chronicles Of Narnia Movies To Be 'Rebooted' With The Silver Chair
The ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ movie series is to be rebooted, with the first new movie being 'The Silver Chair’, according to reports.
Veteran producer Mark Gordon, who has worked on movies like 'The Day After Tomorrow’ and 'Saving Private Ryan’, and TV shows like 'Greys Anatomy’ and 'Ray Donovan’, told Collider: “We’re hoping to be able to make the movie very shortly. We’re very excited about it.
Asked whether the new movie would continue from the previous movies, he added: “No, it’s all going to be a brand new franchise.
“All original. All original characters, different directors, and an entire new team that this is coming from.”
The news tallies with comments made by scriptwriter David Magee – who penned 'Life of Pi’ and 'Finding Neverland’ – last year, when he tweeted that he’d spent a year completing a first draft of 'The Silver Chair’.
Three new movies were produced from writer C.S. Lewis’s beloved book series, comprising seven novels in all, written between 1949 and 1954.
The first, 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’, was released in 2005, with Tilda Swinton as the White Witch, and William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley playing the Pevensie children who find the door to Narnia inside an old wardrobe.
Also appearing in roles were Liam Neeson as Aslan, Ray Winstone and Dawn French as Mr and Mrs Beaver, James McAvoy as Mr Tumnus, Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian, and Will Poulter as Eustace Scrubb.
Two further movies were then made, 'Prince Caspian’ in 2008, and 'The Voyage of the Dawntreader’ in 2010.
Over the trilogy, the movies made $1.6 billion (around £1 billion), the first movie hauling in the largest box office, with £516 million worldwide.
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