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Started by wilco64256, December 10, 2010, 08:45:49 PM

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I think the way that "reboot" works here is just that they have an opportunity to re-generate interest in the movies as this is a very strong story that could be done extremely well - more so I think than A Horse and His Boy or The Silver Chair.  If done properly it could easily be the best movie out of all of them.
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Quote from: wilco64256 on March 25, 2011, 03:11:42 PM
I think the way that "reboot" works here is just that they have an opportunity to re-generate interest in the movies as this is a very strong story that could be done extremely well - more so I think than A Horse and His Boy or The Silver Chair.  If done properly it could easily be the best movie out of all of them.

Thank you, weldon. This is what I was trying to get across.
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Got it. :yes: You guys are right, a different take on the Narnia series could be very good--people might be getting bored with the Pevensies, and seeing Narnia's roots would be interesting for those who don't know the story already.
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Actually I think it might actually show the opposite.  The producers may be worried that with the Pevensies completely out of the picture people will stop following.  If they did the Silver Chair, they'd have an entirely new character in Jill Pole and the only tie to the past would be Eustace who spent much of Voyage acting like a shrill, obnoxious tool (well, and Caspian too, technically, who spends all of five seconds in the book before sailing off to die).  Heck, Silver Chair barely even takes place in Narnia!  They go there briefly, but then it's off to the wilds of the north and then underground.  I think the producers could be trying to play it save by skipping to Magician's Nephew.

Magician's Nephew may also have new characters, but it has an old villain, the same villain they keep shoehorning into the movies (seriously, having her show up in Voyage was just reaching and too much of an attention demanding cameo.  Same with Caspian, though that at least had a setup and was true to the book.)  And the main character has a direct tie to the Pevensies and allows for a cameo of all of them and the old professor.  It would be very difficult to have any ties to the past if they moved on to Silver Chair.

In the end, I'd be really psyched to see either Magician's Nephew or Silver Chair.  Magician's Nephew is fascinating with the world between the worlds and the dying world the White Witch comes from.  On the other hand, Silver Chair's got Puddleglum.  Oh, and other cool stuff too like giants and stuff.  But mainly Puddleglum!

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Quote from: Damar on March 26, 2011, 03:21:28 PM
Magician's Nephew may also have new characters, but it has an old villain, the same villain they keep shoehorning into the movies (seriously, having her show up in Voyage was just reaching and too much of an attention demanding cameo.  Same with Caspian, though that at least had a setup and was true to the book.) 
This is a very, very good point.  I am a huge Narnia freak, but I'm getting quite tired of seeing Tilda Swinton in every Narnia movie that has ever been filmed.  She had her badass moment in TLt WatW, her appropriate and expected cameo in Prince Caspian, but there was no point to her appearance in VotDT.  None.  I think you said earlier that the director seemed to think that there needed to be a specific antagonist for the sake of the audience, and having her show up in the movie only underscores that point.  If I, a diehard Narnia freak, am feeling this way, I can only imagine what the casual moviegoer is feeling.

HOWEVER...finding out where she comes from is pretty amazing.  The world of Charn would be amazing to see onscreen.  It would definitely be a shock to audiences to discover her story! (Assuming the director stays true to the book.  :-\

Like I said, I think it would be too obscure a concept to translate The Silver Chair and beyond into a movie, but that's just my humble opinion.  I'd be okay with The Magician's Nephew being made into a movie.
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I kinda wish they had started with The Magician's Nephew, honestly, and just gone through the series in chronological order. There would have been more connections between the movies that way.
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