Disney is dumping Narnia

jt04

jt04

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Meh...

Maybe now it will be handled by a production company that understands what they have.....

.....and Disney can use the money they have saved to rebuild Space Mountain, add RSR to DHS, redo Imagination, and build Mysterious Island at AK.:sohappy:
 
marni1971

marni1971

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And there`s me just having set the PVR to record the first film in HD on Friday to see what all the fuss was about....

I guess we`ll just have to watch Harry Potter 2,3,4,5,6 and 7 for the first time then (I am right... there are only seven arn`t they?? :D )
 
krankenstein

krankenstein

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This is sad, but I can't say I blame them. They weren't making the money they expected them to.

marni1971 said:
I am right... there are only seven arn`t they?? :D
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You are correct Martin! HP is made up of 7 books, but the last book is going to be split into 2 films. Which means you will have 8 HP movies to watch.

I recommend you stick with the books though. They are a heck of a lot better than the movies.
 
stitch2008

stitch2008

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cymbaldiva said:
That's terrible .... :fork:
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As I said in the thread about this in the film boards, I dont think Disney is making a huge mistake by ending Narnia. I would have liked to see them make Voyage of the Dawn Treader(even though I never read it). But this means that Disney can focus on other projects now. TR2N is in the middle of pre-production, work is going to start soon on the new muppet movie, plus they have got to be starting work on The Lone Ranger. Not to mention Brad Bird's 1906, which is supposed to be a co-production between Disney and Warner Bros.
 
Timmay

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cymbaldiva said:
Not to be snarky, but you'll need to be far less vague to be even considered, much less trusted. :)
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Disney wasn't willing to put forth the effort needed for these books to be the epics on screen they deserve to be. Disney can spend the money elswhere and someone else can take over the Narnia series and do it justice.
 
cymbaldiva

cymbaldiva

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Timmay said:
Disney wasn't willing to put forth the effort needed for these books to be the epics on screen they deserve to be. Disney can spend the money elswhere and someone else can take over the Narnia series and do it justice.
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Not at all trying to brush your one reason aside (not that I agree, but it's a thought) - I was wonder what the previous posters several reasons are :shrug:
 
tirian

tirian

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krankenstein said:
This is sad, but I can't say I blame them. They weren't making the money they expected them to.



You are correct Martin! HP is made up of 7 books, but the last book is going to be split into 2 films. Which means you will have 8 HP movies to watch.

I recommend you stick with the books though. They are a heck of a lot better than the movies.
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Caspian didn't make the money it should have because it was released between Iron Man and the new (awful) Indiana Jones. The movie itself was quite good. Too bad about its B.O. returns, but hey, Wizard of Oz didn't do very well on its first release, either. (Before anybody jumps me, I'm not comparing Caspian to Oz.) :)

And Marni, the HP movies are dumb. Period. In fact, the first thing many critics noticed about the first Narnia movie (LWW) is that it was better made than the HP films. Check out Roger Ebert's review to see what I'm talking about. :wave:
 
wvdisneyfamily

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krankenstein said:
This is sad, but I can't say I blame them. They weren't making the money they expected them to.



You are correct Martin! HP is made up of 7 books, but the last book is going to be split into 2 films. Which means you will have 8 HP movies to watch.

I recommend you stick with the books though. They are a heck of a lot better than the movies.
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I agree. They leave a lot of things out of the movies that are great details. The time limits (how long a movie can be) take away from the films.
 
unkadug

unkadug

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The individual books of the Chronicles of Narnia are pretty much unknown to most people except for The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

So name recognition would also have been an issue.
 
tirian

tirian

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unkadug said:
The individual books of the Chronicles of Narnia are pretty much unknown to most people except for The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

So name recognition would also have been an issue.
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I understand your point, but someone could also argue that Americans weren't generally familiar with Mary Poppins or Pooh before the Disney films. Part of Walt's purpose in creating those movies was to bring the stories to American children.

Not to mention that this argument is meaningless against the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enchanted, and Wall-E.

The really sad part is that "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is one of the best books in the series, and Disney could market the heck out of its "adventurer" status in the same vein as POTC.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
tirian said:
I understand your point, but someone could also argue that Americans weren't generally familiar with Mary Poppins or Pooh before the Disney films. Part of Walt's purpose in creating those movies was to bring the stories to American children.

Not to mention that this argument is meaningless against the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enchanted, and Wall-E.

The really sad part is that "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is one of the best books in the series, and Disney could market the heck out of its "adventurer" status in the same vein as POTC.
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That's the problem right there. What film has seen the kind of marketing that PotC received? Disney seems afraid to get behind any of their films.
 
tirian

tirian

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unkadug said:
That's the problem right there. What film has seen the kind of marketing that PotC received? Disney seems afraid to get behind any of their films.
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I couldn't agree more.

Wait—Hannah Montana and Beverly Hills Chihuahua got a lot of marketing.

:hurl:

p.s. love your avatar
 
NemoRocks78

NemoRocks78

Seized
Fox Takes Over Chronicles of Narnia
Source: Variety, L.A. Times
January 28, 2009

Variety and The L.A. Times are reporting that 20th Century Fox has picked up the option to co-finance Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader just a month after Disney decided to pass on helping to finance the third film in the series. Budgeting and script issues are being worked out although there's hope that the film will start shooting at the end of summer for a planned holiday 2010 release through the Fox Walden label.

Fox and Walden will split the production and P&A costs for Dawn Treader, which is projected to have a $140 million budget, down from the $215 million spent on last year's Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Caspian grossed $419 million worldwide, compared to the $745 million earned by its predecessor The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

As planned, the third film will be directed by Michael Apted with Mark Johnson and original director Andrew Adamson co-producing. Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley will be returning as Prince Caspian, Edmund and Lucy while Will Poulter from Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow will play Eustace Clarence Scrubb.

You can read more details about the production deal and the development of the script, which was penned by Richard LaGravanese over at Variety and at L.A. Times.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=52379
 

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