Who owns chronicles of narnia

Fox has plenty of interest, having seriously considered acquiring the movie rights to the C. Lewis books before Walden landed them. If Fox passes, both Sony and Warners have expressed strong interest in the project.

All Sections. About Us. Lewis Company. The Chronicles of Narnia is a book series from the famed author C. Lewis that were published in the s. The book series is a fantasy series that transports us to the fictional realm of Narnia. In total, seven books were published under the Chronicles of Narnia banner.

The series has seen multiple adaptations over the years including a BBC series, a radio series and of course, the Disney movies. It later released another film that was distributed under Disney with the third movie being distributed by 20th Century Fox. A fourth movie was planned but never materialized. The news of Netflix teaming up with The C. There is some dispute as to which order the books should be read in, by publication date or by chronology.

Netflix might do what the films had done and start with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , the first book published and by far the most well-known of the whole series.

Otherwise, if they want to focus on a larger connected universe they might instead first adapt The Magician's Nephew , the second-to-last book published but the one set earliest chronologically. By Brooks Vernon Published May 18, Share Share Tweet Email 0.

Related Topics SR Originals chronicles of narnia. I think they had high hopes for it. It was probably a test. At the very least, it would be a big challenge to any other film because superhero movies always attract moviegoers. Think of the general success of the X-Men movies and the original Spider-Man trilogy, and they were arguably mediocre movies. I just believe that if Walden or Disney had moved their holiday movies at the time what were they…Waterhorse and Enchanted?

Disney might have still had the success they wanted and not backed out of the project, leaving Walden to pick up the pieces with Fox, which rarely works out. I agree. They should have acknowledged that the competition with Iron Man and Indiana Jones, along with less familiarity with that book, contributed to a lower gross that was still in the top ten for that year. Sadly i doubt the Narnia aspect of this Fox merger deal even registers on Disney's radar, especially not in comparison to the huge implications for Marvel Studios in regaining key characters and the massive boost to their Television strategy in acquiring further stakes in Hulu and Sky.

Given that North America seems to be the only region that hasn't already had a Narnia Trilogy Boxset, and that the ones released over here in Europe and elsewhere haven't exactly been flying off the shelves in the 6 years since they were made available, i kind of doubt that Disney would consider it a worthy investment to do so. I guess maybe if the whole Netflix thing really takes off they might consider a quick cash in, but even then id be surprised to see anything more than a cheap re-packaging.

There is a little more news on this front. Disney will probably make a boxed set whenever Netflix finally releases their Narnia adaptions, however, I don't think that Disney will do it before then because their strategy is to promote whatever properties they own completely. I think this is one of the reasons they abandoned the Narnia movies and announced it just in time for Christmas — a wrong move.

Disney tends to do best making things where they have freedom to drastically change the storyline and Narnia is not one of those things. Plus, they didn't completely own the rights and characters so it wasn't as economically profitable for Disney.

I didn't really realize this was the reason at the time, I had thought Disney executives just didn't like Narnia, but having ten years to think about it expands my mind a bit. I don't think Disney's involvement would have made any difference to VODT as far as the final product is concerned. I'm not sure. I very much enjoyed VODT and still do. But I can distinctly remember watching it for the first time in theaters and thinking "this feels different. The best reasoning I can come up with is that it felt somehow "less magical" than the previous two movies.

At the time, I attributed it to Disney's absence.