Michael Flaherty, co-founder and president of Walden Media, says they are considering filming The Magician’s Nephew next.
Read the story here.
If they continued following publication order, The Silver Chair would have been next. However, their argument that the popularity of each Narnia movie corresponds to the popularity of the related book makes sense.
I’ve always loved The Magician’s Nephew (a close second to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and much more than The Silver Chair, which has a creepy snake), so this is good news to me.
There’s always the possibility that they might not get around to filming all 7 Narnia books for financial reasons, and I’d hate for them not to get to The Magician’s Nephew.
What are your favorite Narnia books?
The only one I remember struggling to enjoy was A Horse and His Boy. I can’t wait for the final one, myself. It was my favorite.
The Magician’s Nephew is my favorite. Then, TLTWTW, Then Dawn Treader & Caspian. Then Horse/Boy, Silver Chair, and Last Battle is my least favorite.
I was just pondering this question tonight as we started the Focus on the Family Radio Theater dramatization of these books for the 4th time in 9 months. (The set lives in our car and my kids love it!!!) My girls like The Magician’s Nephew and The Silver Chair because they like the girls in the stories. My son loves all of them equally. Me? Well, I think my favorite is The Last Battle. The way the C.S. Lewis was able to explain Biblical principles like God’s time being different from our own and the rapture of the church are just brilliant! In the introduction to one of the stories, Lewis’s stepson mentions that Lewis himself loved reading children’s stories as an adult because his life experiences made them that much more meaningful. To me, this is especially true in “The Last Battle.” Each time I read it, or listen to the dramatization, I get more and more out of it.
Beginning as a child, I have read the Chronicles over and over, and the order of my favorites have changed as I have grown and experienced different things in life. I cannot ever remember disliking any of the books – in fact it has always been difficult to choose a favorite! As a child, I did not like some of the characters in The Last Battle; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was, of course, the easiest to understand and made me fall in love with Aslan. But as I have gotten older, The Last Battle has become dearer as I look toward the finality of my life and moving farther up and farther in. Throughout the years, I would say I have especially loved many of the hidden spiritual “aha”s in The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy. There is no one, no one like C.S. Lewis! What a mind! Though I am enjoying the movies, they cannot possibly capture the wealth that is stored in the books, and I only hope that children and adults will be spurred to read them!