Why Narnia 4 is Taking Forever | Talking Beasts
UPDATE: This episode was recored several weeks months before it was announced that Netflix is developing Narnia content.
Podcast Discussion
There has been no news on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair movie since Director Joe Johnston said the plan was to begin prep sometime around July 2018. Well, it’s August now…
Will the movie ever get made? What’s the hold up?
In this season premiere episode, Rilian, Gymfan, and Glumpuddle discuss possible reasons for the delay and their feelings on the production at this uncertain stage.
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2nd to that 🙂
Definetly could be…
Heh, heh… just wait till we hear the official announcement that THE LAST BATTLE has been split into 2 parts. That'd sure account for THE SILVER CHAIR starting a new "trilogy"…
Don't when you guys are continuing the HHB commentary, but tomorrow is the 64th anniversary of the original printing of "The Horse and His Boy". (Friday, interestingly enough, is the 65th anniversary for "The Silver Chair".)
P.S.: why the sudden comment silence?
Hey what's with the comments?
Yep, it was down for a few hours. During that time, I resolved to live like a NarniaWebber even if there wasn't any NarniaWeb.
Oops, that's "don't know when". Thanks Glumpuddle for fixing the comments!
"don’t make fun of LGBTQ. Come on."
Yes call it what we do in Australia, Perversion.It has no place in any movie, let alone a children's book.
And in case you want to attack me, my best mate, a kliensfelter says exactly the same thing.
Re NZ and 'just marsh' no, you are forgetting the giant castle of Harfang in the mountains high up near the western wastes, the snow and falling into the writing. All perfect for NZ.
Re aspergers I've been gifted with it, and both Eustace and Jill do very much have some strong traits… Eg BBC DT was A typical " take me to the British consul" " I don't want spiced wine!" And ' I want rowntrees vitamin water'
All look very aspie and also he Exhibits aspie hallmarks of being changed by Aslan eg pole noting Eustace has been changed from fighting his own battles for his own worlds parameters to fighting the battles of others -protecting pole from the bloods-
Probably wouldn't make for an improvement in storyline, but mirrors my experience of ASD, for sure
Just checking to see if the comments are working.
The filmmakers could pull a Judy Garland and cast a 14-16 year old actress to a 10-12 year old girl. Theatrical yes, but it could work. I think the Narnia movies have more in common with The Wizard of Oz than more modern fantasy films. No, Aslan would not be played by a man in a suit ;p
Maybe, JILL could be of Asian-English decent and gets bullied by racists because of the Japanese Empire. IDK. Might work. Might not. Sorry. 🙂
JFGII, you don't have to post both drafts of your post online. Just trying to be helpful.
P.S. I agree on one thing: A 16-year-old Saoirse Ronan as JILL POLE??? 🙂 😀 That would have been cool.
HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY "SILVER CHAIR"!
so you're a baby boomer, like my dad 😉
Yeah, I realize it's Septmeber… that's why I stopped the countdown on my end. ( See the big post I did before for more details.)
Fixed now.
I personally don't like the idea of her ethnicity being changed so the bullies have a reason to harass her. Some people just like the superior feeling and don't need reasons as obvious as appearance to make people miserable, and it sounded that the leaders of the bullies were in this category. (Incidentally I'm Asian in background and have never really gotten treated differently because of this, but I suppose it was a different age.)
I am also a fan of her look in the original illustrations, so I may be bias.
I really hope that production actually starts later this year. I've enjoyed the previous 3 Narnia movies, and if all goes well with this movie, we can finally have all 7 movies adapted! Besides, the other Narnia movies got generally good reception, so I have good faith that this one will too. I personally won't have any problem if this turns out to be a big budget movie, as long as it's done tastefully. I don't want this movie to end up being one of those things they announce and leave it hanging like "The Adventures of Thomas" (a movie about Thomas the Tank Engine in WW2). Anyway, this was an enjoyable podcast as always, and I look forward to catching up! Cheers!
Hey, folks! Great to hear you all doing podcasts again. I missed you all! And it was a terrific discussion as always.
One thing that didn't get mentioned, but which I think is important, is "Nutcracker and the Four Realms." When Disney lost the director for that movie, they called in Joe Johntson as an emergency replacement. I expect that it's taken up a lot of Johntson's time. That film is scheduled to be released in November, at which point Johntson may rest up for the holidays before working on anything else.
If we start to hear rumblings early next year about production on "Silver Chair" moving forward, then everything is probably fine, and "Nutcracker" was the only reason for delay. If we continue to hear nothing after a few months into next year, then I'll suspect that the problems run deeper.
Anyway, keep up the great work! And please keep doing movie production news and analysis. The book-related episodes are fine, but I'm glad there's one place where I can point people for accurate, balanced reporting on the production (such as when the word "reboot" was being thrown around). Thanks as always! 🙂