New ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ Movie Planned by TriStar, Mark Gordon

What do you think of the fact that the Chronicles of Narnia will once more be on the big screen?

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that a new Narnia movie is coming. It’s unclear if castmembers from earlier films are returning. In their announcement, the studio also shared that David Magee, the screenwriter for the film Life of Pi, would be adapting the story. Fox 2000 continued on with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which kept the cast intact and grossed a respectable $415 million, but given that it was basically just on par with its predecessor, Fox 2000 didn’t see a future in the series and called it a day. He said a lot of other obfuscating BS about it being a “brand new franchise”, which was repeated with today’s news that TriStar is funding the movie with eOne and the Mark Gordon Company. Narnia.com has announced that the film will be financed by TriStar, eOne and The Mark Gordon Company with Sony and eOne distributing the picture. Mark Gordon, C.S. Lewis’ stepson Douglas Gresham, Vincent Sieber, and Melvin Adams serve as producers. Six more novels (including the prequel, “The Magician’s Nephew”, and the sequels, “The Horse and His Boy”, “Prince Caspian”, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, “The Silver Chair” and “The Last Battle”) followed over the next six years. The story begins with Caspian’s son, the prince, going missing, leading Aslan the lion to send Eustace Scrubb – who was played by The Revenant’s Will Poulter in 2010’s Dawn Treader – and his boarding school classmate Jill Pope in search of the missing monarch.

Now TriStar-operating under a new mandate from Sony head Tom Rothman to seek literary material that will travel worldwide-is taking a crack at it with an entirely new creative team, introducing a new generation to Lewis’ beloved book series.