Walden Media president Cary Granat has informed that the next two installments in the film franchise may be based on "The Silver Chair" and "The Magician's Nephew", respectively.
- October 8, 2007
AceShowbiz -
It's true that we can expect one big screen installment of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series to come up each May for the next few years as announced by the producers at this year's Comic-Con. Titles for the second and the third have already been revealed along with their respective scheduled release, but how about the fourth and fifth?
Lucky for us, the co-founder and president of Walden Media, the studio holding rights to the film franchise of the C.S. Lewis books, Cary Granat has an early answer to the question. While promising that the upcoming "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" will be easily distinguishable from its predecessor, the man has pointed out to Variety that "The Silver Chair" might be the best bet for the fourth with "The Magician's Nephew" popping up next. Though so, Granat did advise that there are a multitude of possibilities for the plan.
"There are a lot of stories to be taken from the seven books," he said.
"Silver Chair", dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Lewis' fellow Inkling Colin Hardie, is the fourth book published whereas it chronologically is the sixth chapter in the series. Meanwhile, "The Magician's Nephew", the sixth book, is the first in the internal chronology, being an early example of a prequel as it brings the reader back to the very beginning of how Aslan created Narnia and how evil first entered it.
