Talk:The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)

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Contents 1 Harry Potter 2 Awards 3 Clarifying the Differences Between the Film and Book Series' Production Orders 4 Stub? 5 Correct order or buisiness? 6 Super Shortened? 7 2008????? 8 Lord of the Rings for Kids 9 Caspian Trilogy 10 Puzzled

[edit] Harry Potter

Can we formalized these movies to resemble the Harry Potter film series? That would standardize things nicely.

[edit] Awards

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)

I came to the discussion page wondering the same thing myself. I run a Narnia fan site and have heard nothing of the sort myself. Can anyone shed any light on this? In the meantime, I've moved it to the page about the film, and reformatted it so that it fits. --LuminousSpecter 04:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarifying the Differences Between the Film and Book Series' Production Orders

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)

[edit] Stub?

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)

Since no one mentioned any reasons to keep the stub listing, I have deleted it. Eluchil404 16:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Correct order or buisiness?

Should it also be said that many people read Narnia and didn't read Nephew, thus making more movie buisiness for the studio?

Only if we can find a source for it. It's logical but WP:NOR and my impression is that LWW was really a personal/emotional choice for the produces and director rather than a cold blooded marketing decision. Eluchil404 04:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Super Shortened?

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)

[edit] 2008?????

I thought Prince Caspian was supposed to be released in 2007! Why this change? Scorpionman 20:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

The nearly impossible production scheduale that a Dec 2007 release would hae required? I don't know more than what I've seen in the news reports but 23 months is not very long to go from greenlight to release espeically if major characters have to be photo-realistically animated (Aslan, Reepicheep, Truffelhunter). Eluchil404 22:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lord of the Rings for Kids

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?

[edit] Caspian Trilogy

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)

Caspian dies as an old man, but in the book there's a following scene in which he's young again. The movie could fudge that, I suppose. However, the kid playing Eustace shouldn't be much older in The Silver Chair than in Voyage.

—wwoods 16:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I remembered the bit about Eustace (I think "Chair" only takes place a few months after "Voyage", if I remember correctly). And now that you mention it, I do remember when they go to Aslan's country about how they said that Caspian looked younger, though I didn't think he'd be a youth again.

But yeah, they'd want to keep the same actor for Eustace for "Voyage", "Chair", and "Battle" as well. --6xB 18:55, 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)

Good point. Eustace would have to be relatively the same age (give or take about a year) for VDT, SC, and LB; Jill would have to be the same for SC and LB; Caspian for PC, VDT, and the end of SC; Jadis for LWW and MN; Peter and Susan for LWW and PC; Edmund and Lucy for LWW, PC, and VDT; older Susan for LWW and HHB; older Peter, Edmund, and Lucy for LWW, HHB, and LB; and Prof. Kirke for LWW and LB. That's a lot of continuity to keep track of. --6_xB 03:20, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't have the books handy, but IIRC The Last Battle is set several years of Earth-time after Silver Chair, so they've got some leeway there. (For instance, Susan is late-adolescent in LB.)

Jadis in Magician's Nephew is a thousand years younger than in LWW, and minus the effects of the stolen apple, so there's really no problem there. As long as Jim Broadbent is alive, make-up can match his appearance in TCoN:LWW. Even if he's not available, Prof. Kirke has only a cameo in LB; if Prof. Dumbledore can be recast, so can Kirke.

Horse and His Boy is a bit of a challenge. Presumably the actors who played the adult Pevensies in TCoN:LWW will get first crack at auditioning for their roles in TCoN:HHB. Or maybe by then the younger actors could do it — Anna Popplewell is old enough that Rabadash's desire to marry her won't seem icky. But as long as the actors cast don't appear glaringly different, there shouldn't be a problem.

—wwoods 07:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Taking into account how the characters look, Jadis probably wouldn't look a whole lot younger in MN than she did in LWW (perhaps maybe 5 or 10 years to Earth Humans). Still, by then, I do agree that they would have to cast a new actress to play the part.

Assuming they film the rest of the movies two at a time, the order would most likely be PC and VDT, SC and HHB, and MN and LB. So, assuming HHB comes out in maybe about 2014, the actors who played the original Pevensies could still potentially play the same characters, as you said. (I'm not entirely sure about Georgie Henley though, as she would only be around 19 at that time, which may or may not be old enough for the character.)

And even though Digory only appeared in two scenes in LWW, I still think it would be awkward to have another actor play him. Mr. Broadbent should maintain his place in Narnia. But, if they absolutely had to change it, then I wouldn't he against casting another actor for the part, but preferrably if he retained a few physical characteristics from both younger and older Digory.

--6_xB 21:04, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

In response to the "not a forum" tag (or template, or whatever it's called), anyone who wishes to continue/participate in this discussion may do so on my talk page if they so choose. I'll copy/paste this discussion to my page for that purpose. --6_xB 21:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Puzzled

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)