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Can we formalise these movies to resemble the 'Harry Potter' film series? That would standardise things nicely. If possible?
What are the Wings TEC Critics Awards? Do they really exist? I couldn't find them with a quick google search. And shouldn't they, like all the other awards, be mentioned on the page for the specific movie rather than the series? Eluchil404 03:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
204.126.2.5 04:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC) The section on "Other Films" was rewritten to better clarify why there is a disparity between the order of the currently published editions and the order in which the films are being produced. It was also revised to avoid language that seemed somewhat patronizing ("some *young* fans are confused"--in reality, many adult readers are also confused). 138.237.162.14 02:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed the stub template on this page. IMO, the article covers the topic fully, so I will remove the stub template unless someone objects. Eluchil404 20:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Should it also be said that many people read Narnia and didn't read Nephew, thus making more movie buisiness for the studio?
This article looks virtually destroyed. If I remember correctly, it looks half the length it used to be. (E.g. There's no plot, fewer pictures, etc.) Colonel Marksman 15:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I thought Prince Caspian was supposed to be released in 2007! Why this change? Scorpionman 20:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I look at this movie as the Lord of the Rings for kids. This might be the reason why it was not nominated for Best Picture. Why is it that kids movies, despite their overall quality, cannot be nominated for Best Picture?
In regards to the "trilogy of Caspian" ( Other Films, P1), if I remember correctly, wasn't Caspian only a youth in "Caspian" and "Voyage"? In fact, I believe he dies as an old man during "Chair". Therefore, they wouldn't need to worry about the actor playing Caspian to remain young. -- 6xB 07:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing: everyone keeps talking about the "Caspian trilogy and how they need to film those in succession because of actor continuity, but does no-one realize that that if they want to maintain continuity as far as Eustace and Jill go they need to film The Last Battle following The Silver Chair? Those two are still kids in TLB. Then after that they can film The Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy whenever they want as there are no continuity issues (except I guess with the White Witch in MN).
Actually wouldn't be surprised if at least one of those two never gets filmed, which would be unfortunate.
-- NetherlandishYankee 02:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
"Shouldn't be a problem?" I think you're forgetting one really big problem. That is the way that Calormen and Calormenes are portrayed in the book. Seems to me that they'd have to devise a way around portraying the "dark skinned" Calormenes as the bad guys and the "white skinned" Narnians as the good guys on the big screen, or forget it. HHB is a good story in and of itself but the strong racial overtones can't be ignored, especially at the box office. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.233.247.5 ( talk) 03:19, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
The article states, "Judging by the spacing between Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the stated desire to release the 'Caspian trilogy' films a year apart, the movie [The Silver Chair] will probably be released in 2012 or 2013." But we know that Prince Caspain is due for release in June 2008, Voyage in May 2010. So if Silver Chair is due in 2012 (at the earliest), that's two years apart (again), not one. This "stated desire" to release them one year apart must therefore have been abandoned by now as unrealistic - right? 86.133.54.73 ( talk) 23:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Why does the Time Length for the first two films list as 24 hours each?-- WPaulB ( talk) 05:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
I have done due diligence, checking Google, news.google, and other sources. Originator IP was assigned to a pool in Milwaukee, and I checked four different papers there, as well as Walden media staff/locations who might have leaked this. As it's not in the news, not cited, and represents something that could be used to manipulate financial markets, I believe this to be fall under the "exceptional claim." Removing the reference and suggesting if it is verifiable, it must be cited. Redcard ( talk) 05:20, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Why does this page look like such crap. Everything is a mess and there are broken pieces of code all over the place. The Great Morgil ( talk) 19:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)hi
That's not true. Please refrain for making such comments in the future as it is highly unconstructive and does nothing for the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.206.233.143 ( talk) 12:32, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Removed some redundant text in Additional Films section. Since Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader was its own section and discussed this already, removed "The film adaptation of the third book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader distributed by 20th Century Fox, has been confirmed; the next likely film." from the section. Azzychan ( talk) 02:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Ok so someone thinks that " The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" should be merged into this thread. Seriously, why bother doing that? You are just going to end up moving out afterwards when the movie goes into production in a few months. This is just a waste of time, leave that page be. Jrfoldes ( talk) 23:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Merge per WP:NFF. If an movie hasn't started filming yet it shouldn't have their own article. Plain and simple. Jhenderson777 ( talk) 20:30, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
The Silver Chair has not been announced and there is no guarantee at the present time that it will even be made (considering Dawn Treader's opening was less than hoped for, it's actually looking more doubtful). Details of it should not be added to this article because it contravenes Wikipedia policy. Please see WP:CRYSTAL. 88.110.248.192 ( talk) 05:53, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Julia Pole?? Is there a reason why Jill Pole is referred to as Julia Pole? Fellow Narnia fans will agree that such an error is only slightly worse than a live beetle in your shoe! If no explanation or reason not to, I'll change it! surfingus ( talk) 17:15, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Let us reach a consensus on what to call this section heading. For a time, it was "Pevensie and Scrubb children". Now it is back to the original "Pevensie children". When Silver Chair comes out, it will be even more inaccurate. Should it be something simple like "The children" or more descriptive like "Children of Earth" to differentiate them from Narnia's children such as Caspian? Elizium23 ( talk) 23:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
The whole section summarizing the plots of the films is redundant with the individual articles about those films. I believe it should be removed. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 17:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I could not find a source to support speculation about Silver Chair's release date, so I removed mentions of it from the article. I did find a reference for Magician's Nephew, in Christianity Today; however, the other reference named "TVObit" does not appear to be a valid source, it appears to be a television news story, but does not mention a channel, publisher, distributor, writer, or anything to identify it uniquely. Help would be appreciated in either tracking it down or removing it altogether. Elizium23 ( talk) 00:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
-est is use for superlatives in a list of three or more. -er is used for camparisons between two things. Therefore, Susan is the *elder* girl and Edmund is the *younger* boy. 65.202.226.2 ( talk) 20:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)mjd
Is a picture of the French DVD box set cover the best representation of the films for the English Wiki? I know that the ins and outs of the rules regarding pictures that are allowed on this Wiki are tortuous and Byzantine so this may be the only one we can have. I post this in the hope that those of you who are better versed in all those rules might be able to find a better pic for this article. MarnetteD | Talk 21:05, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
It has been rumored that The Magician's Nephew and The Silver Chair are in development, but there is no reliable secondary source which has picked up this story. A NarniaFans.com article carried the rumor in September 2011, which is stale by now because Walden Media's option expired on future Narnia films; and IMDb has both films listed as "In Development": Magician (2014) Silver Chair (2015). IMDb is not a sufficiently reliable source for this. We need a news article, it would probably come in a trade publication such as Variety. So please do not add rumors to the Narnia articles until a news story is published. See WP:CRYSTAL and WP:NFF for more information. Thanks. Elizium23 ( talk) 03:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I've been reading The Magical Worlds of Narnia by David Colbert and there are many many references to all the source material that Lewis pulled from. Lewis became a Christian later in life and it was not the primary influence in his novels. He and Tolkien pulled lots of material from Norse and Greek mythology, Irish folklore, and many other sources, including Christianity. Somebody please either add a reference to show that the current text is true or delete it. Text is in paragraph two of the article: "While the films tried to follow the novels' traditional storyline and Christian themes, they also added deviations from the source material, including the Greek Mythology and Irish fairy tales."
Author Colbert, David. Title The magical worlds of Narnia : the symbols, myths, and fascinating facts behind The chronicles / David Colbert. Publication info. New York : Berkley Books, 2005. Edition Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Bdag ( talk) 15:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
The link for "moratorium" if the Future section leads to the disambiguation of moratorium. It should lead to "moratorium (law)," but I don't know how to change the link. Can someone do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.53.49 ( talk) 01:40, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
The wikiquote link does not direct to an article on wikiquote, but to a search page. 66.254.227.158 ( talk) 19:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
It looks as if over the last few months there has been a bit of a slow-motion edit war about how this article should describe the future of the Silver Chair film: is it, as Zucat ( talk · contribs) has it in an edit summary, "still most likely being made", or has it been superseded by the announcement of the Netflix deal? The reliable sources I have been able to find are of little help; Deadline and Entertainment Weekly both suggest that the Netflix deal means the previous plans for The Silver Chair are dead, but neither is very firm about it
Deadline says: "Following the MGC’s acquisition by eOne, it was announced in 2016 that Sony and eOne would finance and distribute [The Silver Chair]. Instead, Gordon and chief eOne strategy officer Peter Micelli felt there was a bigger opportunity in building a film-TV Narnia universe. They got The C.S. Lewis Company on board and took the package, accompanied by an elaborate vision presentation, to the marketplace, eventually landing at Netflix. (Sony is not involved in the project.)" The word "instead" suggests that the Silver Chair project, or at least the version of it that Sony was going to produce, is now dead; but it's far from clear.
Similarly, EW says: "A film version of the fourth book in the saga, The Silver Chair, was supposed to start filming this year under director Joe Johnston with Gordon producing, but it sounds like this deal is effectively overwriting that one." But "it sounds like" suggests that this is James Hibberd's interpretation of the press release, not a certain fact.
Finally, The Independent says: "Meanwhile, there's currently no word on whether the Joe Johnston-directed adaptation of The Silver Chair is still going ahead as previously planned."
I worded my edit the way I did in order to indicate to readers that it is the cited sources which are interpreting the Netflix announcement as meaning that the previous plans for The Silver Chair are now defunct — this is not our synthesis, but a summary of what other sources are saying. In the absence of firm news one way or the other, I think that's all we can do. Does that seem like a fair compromise to other editors? — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 03:41, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
I think the information is worded fine. I am concerned about the sequencing though. Would it make more sense to remove the Silver Chair sub-title and list the Netflix news below the old Silver Chair information. This way the information contained in the Future section will be about the future of the entire franchise and not just one potential film as well as listing the information in chronological order. Currently the first sentence mentions the Silver Chair info is superseded by the Netflix news. At this point, a new reader isn't going to be familiar with the Silver Chair info unless they read the Future section out of order. Elnauron ( talk) 14:30, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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Can we formalise these movies to resemble the 'Harry Potter' film series? That would standardise things nicely. If possible?
What are the Wings TEC Critics Awards? Do they really exist? I couldn't find them with a quick google search. And shouldn't they, like all the other awards, be mentioned on the page for the specific movie rather than the series? Eluchil404 03:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
204.126.2.5 04:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC) The section on "Other Films" was rewritten to better clarify why there is a disparity between the order of the currently published editions and the order in which the films are being produced. It was also revised to avoid language that seemed somewhat patronizing ("some *young* fans are confused"--in reality, many adult readers are also confused). 138.237.162.14 02:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed the stub template on this page. IMO, the article covers the topic fully, so I will remove the stub template unless someone objects. Eluchil404 20:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Should it also be said that many people read Narnia and didn't read Nephew, thus making more movie buisiness for the studio?
This article looks virtually destroyed. If I remember correctly, it looks half the length it used to be. (E.g. There's no plot, fewer pictures, etc.) Colonel Marksman 15:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I thought Prince Caspian was supposed to be released in 2007! Why this change? Scorpionman 20:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I look at this movie as the Lord of the Rings for kids. This might be the reason why it was not nominated for Best Picture. Why is it that kids movies, despite their overall quality, cannot be nominated for Best Picture?
In regards to the "trilogy of Caspian" ( Other Films, P1), if I remember correctly, wasn't Caspian only a youth in "Caspian" and "Voyage"? In fact, I believe he dies as an old man during "Chair". Therefore, they wouldn't need to worry about the actor playing Caspian to remain young. -- 6xB 07:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing: everyone keeps talking about the "Caspian trilogy and how they need to film those in succession because of actor continuity, but does no-one realize that that if they want to maintain continuity as far as Eustace and Jill go they need to film The Last Battle following The Silver Chair? Those two are still kids in TLB. Then after that they can film The Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy whenever they want as there are no continuity issues (except I guess with the White Witch in MN).
Actually wouldn't be surprised if at least one of those two never gets filmed, which would be unfortunate.
-- NetherlandishYankee 02:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
"Shouldn't be a problem?" I think you're forgetting one really big problem. That is the way that Calormen and Calormenes are portrayed in the book. Seems to me that they'd have to devise a way around portraying the "dark skinned" Calormenes as the bad guys and the "white skinned" Narnians as the good guys on the big screen, or forget it. HHB is a good story in and of itself but the strong racial overtones can't be ignored, especially at the box office. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.233.247.5 ( talk) 03:19, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
The article states, "Judging by the spacing between Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the stated desire to release the 'Caspian trilogy' films a year apart, the movie [The Silver Chair] will probably be released in 2012 or 2013." But we know that Prince Caspain is due for release in June 2008, Voyage in May 2010. So if Silver Chair is due in 2012 (at the earliest), that's two years apart (again), not one. This "stated desire" to release them one year apart must therefore have been abandoned by now as unrealistic - right? 86.133.54.73 ( talk) 23:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Why does the Time Length for the first two films list as 24 hours each?-- WPaulB ( talk) 05:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
I have done due diligence, checking Google, news.google, and other sources. Originator IP was assigned to a pool in Milwaukee, and I checked four different papers there, as well as Walden media staff/locations who might have leaked this. As it's not in the news, not cited, and represents something that could be used to manipulate financial markets, I believe this to be fall under the "exceptional claim." Removing the reference and suggesting if it is verifiable, it must be cited. Redcard ( talk) 05:20, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Why does this page look like such crap. Everything is a mess and there are broken pieces of code all over the place. The Great Morgil ( talk) 19:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)hi
That's not true. Please refrain for making such comments in the future as it is highly unconstructive and does nothing for the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.206.233.143 ( talk) 12:32, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Removed some redundant text in Additional Films section. Since Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader was its own section and discussed this already, removed "The film adaptation of the third book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader distributed by 20th Century Fox, has been confirmed; the next likely film." from the section. Azzychan ( talk) 02:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Ok so someone thinks that " The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" should be merged into this thread. Seriously, why bother doing that? You are just going to end up moving out afterwards when the movie goes into production in a few months. This is just a waste of time, leave that page be. Jrfoldes ( talk) 23:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Merge per WP:NFF. If an movie hasn't started filming yet it shouldn't have their own article. Plain and simple. Jhenderson777 ( talk) 20:30, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
The Silver Chair has not been announced and there is no guarantee at the present time that it will even be made (considering Dawn Treader's opening was less than hoped for, it's actually looking more doubtful). Details of it should not be added to this article because it contravenes Wikipedia policy. Please see WP:CRYSTAL. 88.110.248.192 ( talk) 05:53, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Julia Pole?? Is there a reason why Jill Pole is referred to as Julia Pole? Fellow Narnia fans will agree that such an error is only slightly worse than a live beetle in your shoe! If no explanation or reason not to, I'll change it! surfingus ( talk) 17:15, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Let us reach a consensus on what to call this section heading. For a time, it was "Pevensie and Scrubb children". Now it is back to the original "Pevensie children". When Silver Chair comes out, it will be even more inaccurate. Should it be something simple like "The children" or more descriptive like "Children of Earth" to differentiate them from Narnia's children such as Caspian? Elizium23 ( talk) 23:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
The whole section summarizing the plots of the films is redundant with the individual articles about those films. I believe it should be removed. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 17:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I could not find a source to support speculation about Silver Chair's release date, so I removed mentions of it from the article. I did find a reference for Magician's Nephew, in Christianity Today; however, the other reference named "TVObit" does not appear to be a valid source, it appears to be a television news story, but does not mention a channel, publisher, distributor, writer, or anything to identify it uniquely. Help would be appreciated in either tracking it down or removing it altogether. Elizium23 ( talk) 00:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
-est is use for superlatives in a list of three or more. -er is used for camparisons between two things. Therefore, Susan is the *elder* girl and Edmund is the *younger* boy. 65.202.226.2 ( talk) 20:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)mjd
Is a picture of the French DVD box set cover the best representation of the films for the English Wiki? I know that the ins and outs of the rules regarding pictures that are allowed on this Wiki are tortuous and Byzantine so this may be the only one we can have. I post this in the hope that those of you who are better versed in all those rules might be able to find a better pic for this article. MarnetteD | Talk 21:05, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
It has been rumored that The Magician's Nephew and The Silver Chair are in development, but there is no reliable secondary source which has picked up this story. A NarniaFans.com article carried the rumor in September 2011, which is stale by now because Walden Media's option expired on future Narnia films; and IMDb has both films listed as "In Development": Magician (2014) Silver Chair (2015). IMDb is not a sufficiently reliable source for this. We need a news article, it would probably come in a trade publication such as Variety. So please do not add rumors to the Narnia articles until a news story is published. See WP:CRYSTAL and WP:NFF for more information. Thanks. Elizium23 ( talk) 03:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I've been reading The Magical Worlds of Narnia by David Colbert and there are many many references to all the source material that Lewis pulled from. Lewis became a Christian later in life and it was not the primary influence in his novels. He and Tolkien pulled lots of material from Norse and Greek mythology, Irish folklore, and many other sources, including Christianity. Somebody please either add a reference to show that the current text is true or delete it. Text is in paragraph two of the article: "While the films tried to follow the novels' traditional storyline and Christian themes, they also added deviations from the source material, including the Greek Mythology and Irish fairy tales."
Author Colbert, David. Title The magical worlds of Narnia : the symbols, myths, and fascinating facts behind The chronicles / David Colbert. Publication info. New York : Berkley Books, 2005. Edition Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Bdag ( talk) 15:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
The link for "moratorium" if the Future section leads to the disambiguation of moratorium. It should lead to "moratorium (law)," but I don't know how to change the link. Can someone do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.53.49 ( talk) 01:40, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
The wikiquote link does not direct to an article on wikiquote, but to a search page. 66.254.227.158 ( talk) 19:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
It looks as if over the last few months there has been a bit of a slow-motion edit war about how this article should describe the future of the Silver Chair film: is it, as Zucat ( talk · contribs) has it in an edit summary, "still most likely being made", or has it been superseded by the announcement of the Netflix deal? The reliable sources I have been able to find are of little help; Deadline and Entertainment Weekly both suggest that the Netflix deal means the previous plans for The Silver Chair are dead, but neither is very firm about it
Deadline says: "Following the MGC’s acquisition by eOne, it was announced in 2016 that Sony and eOne would finance and distribute [The Silver Chair]. Instead, Gordon and chief eOne strategy officer Peter Micelli felt there was a bigger opportunity in building a film-TV Narnia universe. They got The C.S. Lewis Company on board and took the package, accompanied by an elaborate vision presentation, to the marketplace, eventually landing at Netflix. (Sony is not involved in the project.)" The word "instead" suggests that the Silver Chair project, or at least the version of it that Sony was going to produce, is now dead; but it's far from clear.
Similarly, EW says: "A film version of the fourth book in the saga, The Silver Chair, was supposed to start filming this year under director Joe Johnston with Gordon producing, but it sounds like this deal is effectively overwriting that one." But "it sounds like" suggests that this is James Hibberd's interpretation of the press release, not a certain fact.
Finally, The Independent says: "Meanwhile, there's currently no word on whether the Joe Johnston-directed adaptation of The Silver Chair is still going ahead as previously planned."
I worded my edit the way I did in order to indicate to readers that it is the cited sources which are interpreting the Netflix announcement as meaning that the previous plans for The Silver Chair are now defunct — this is not our synthesis, but a summary of what other sources are saying. In the absence of firm news one way or the other, I think that's all we can do. Does that seem like a fair compromise to other editors? — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 03:41, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
I think the information is worded fine. I am concerned about the sequencing though. Would it make more sense to remove the Silver Chair sub-title and list the Netflix news below the old Silver Chair information. This way the information contained in the Future section will be about the future of the entire franchise and not just one potential film as well as listing the information in chronological order. Currently the first sentence mentions the Silver Chair info is superseded by the Netflix news. At this point, a new reader isn't going to be familiar with the Silver Chair info unless they read the Future section out of order. Elnauron ( talk) 14:30, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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