With Marvel handling
Spider-Man's future, and Paul Feig's all-female Ghostbusters having failed to
reach a substantial audience, Sony can only rely on the smooth, if predatorial,
James Bond to remain competitive in Hollywood's franchise culture. As such, the
studio has entrusted its subsidiary TriStar Pictures with the task of rebooting
the ill-fated franchise based on C.S. Lewis' series of young adult novels The
Chronicles of Narnia with The Silver Chair.
Disney was the first
studio to bring Lewis beloved fantasy series to the big screen with The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in 2005. The movie
proved to be a big success for the studio, grossing $745 million worldwide, making
all the more easier to greenlit a sequel and get the franchise machine up and
running. Prince Caspian however failed to live up to expectations, and after
grossing a measly $419 million worldwide in 2008, Disney relinquished the rights
to the franchise.
Disney's loss was Fox
2000's "fortunate" gain, and on December of 2010 the studio released The
Voyage of the Dawn Trader, the third installment in a franchise started by a
different studio. Unfortunately for Fox 2000 the film treaded a very similar
path to Prince Caspian, only managing to gross $415 million worldwide. Like
Disney, Fox 2000 also did not saw a future in the franchise and dropped it.
Finding Neverland and
Life of Pi scribe David Magee is onboard to pen the script for The Chronicles
Of Narnia: The Silver Chair, which picks up decades later in Narnia but only
one year after in England, and follows a much older King Caspian, who recruits
Aslan to find his son and only heir, Prince Rilan. In turn Aslan recruits two
English boarding school students by the names of Jill Poole, and Eustace Scrubb
to help with the search.
The Revenant's Will
Poulter played Scrubb in Voyage of the Dawn Trader, but given the actor's
packed schedule and age, it is unlikely that he will reprise his role.
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