Fox Developing Walden Media’s ‘Narnia 3′

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• Do yourself a favor, Fox, release it at Christmas. The Chronicles all have religious themes and will play better at holiday.

  Comment by CinefileX — Wednesday January 28, 2009 @ 7:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• I thought ‘Prince Caspian’ was very well done, and I failed to understand the reason behind Disney’s moronic move for dropping the Narnia project.

  Big bloody mistake.

  Comment by UGLY DEAF MUSLIM PUNK GURL! — Wednesday January 28, 2009 @ 7:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• While Fox may have scored a big franchise, their scrimping on the budget (supposedly a more manageable $140 million than the second film’s $200 million) may prove their undoing. And they’d be wise to let the producers and director do a final cut as opposed to cutting it to 100-104 minutes to fit in more showtimes.

  Warners or their New Line arm would’ve probably been a better fit, especially if they’d shared the financing with Legendary Pictures. That way, Warners’ risk is lesser than one co-financier alone if the third film tanks.

  Comment by Matt C — Wednesday January 28, 2009 @ 7:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• The 2nd film, Prince Caspian wasn’t very interesting. Too bad they are making a 3rd one of these instead of someone greenlighting the next in the Golden Compass/Pullman trilogy.

  Comment by nyguy — Wednesday January 28, 2009 @ 7:57pm PST  Reply to this post

• For all the bashing Fox takes from geeks, this is a SMART move, and a predictable one, given how often they work with Walden.

  Agreed on the Christmas release as well.

  Comment by Doc Michaels — Wednesday January 28, 2009 @ 8:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• The second film was not very engaging. Can anyone pitch the story? What was it about and what did it have to do with the first one? The huge upfront interest and immediate tapering of grosses simply says, people didn’t say good things about it.

  Even if the second one is a better story there is limited upside. For Disney, it seems they’d rather own the whole movie so it works across all the business units. I think the upside on Narnia is limited since Walden owns it. So, even in success, it is simply not the kind of property that will work best for them.

  Comment by DMS — Thursday January 29, 2009 @ 9:50am PST  Reply to this post

• Fox better hope they’ve dotted every i and crossed every t on the rights to the property, or they may find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit as they near completion. I don’t think I’m the only one who would savor the irony if Disney swooped in at the last minute to seize a chunk of Narnia 3 profits and Fox’s lame precedent came back to bite them in their collective ass.

  Comment by Watchman — Thursday January 29, 2009 @ 10:13am PST  Reply to this post

• Watchman, no one gives a rat’s ass about your stupid comic book fetish. WB screwed that over, Fox had every legal right to do what they did. Get over it. The movie is going to be a mega-flop.

  As for Narnia, the books in the series vary in quality. Unfortunately for the series, Caspian is probably the most boring and hardest to turn into a movie. There’s a lot of potential in some of the other parts.

  And The Golden Compass? What a joke! That’s a movie that had no chance in hell of being a blockbuster, and any sequels would do worse.

  Comment by Brett — Thursday January 29, 2009 @ 11:51am PST  Reply to this post

• Nyguy — you’re joking, right?!

  Comment by Liz — Thursday January 29, 2009 @ 1:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• One person’s opinion on how the Narnia series can better serve it’s audience:

  http://bullypulpit.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=418:saving-narnia&catid=46:bully-pulpit-blog&Itemid=70

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday January 30, 2009 @ 12:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Let me translate nyguy

  “I’m annoyed *my* film didn’t work thus I will disparage Caspian and pine for someone doing what I want to see”

  Which is fine – plenty of people were disappointed with Caspian, but please try not to muddle that up with silly dreams of the GC movies coming back. The first movie…tanked. Yes yes yes, worldwide gross. Blah blah blah – all that matters is US domestic in the grand scheme of thinks and the Golden Compass failed miserably.

  Comment by Rob — Saturday January 31, 2009 @ 12:48am PST  Reply to this post