Disney Cancels Narnia “Voyage”
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Due to the disappointing box office performance of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Walt Disney Pictures have decided not to move forward on the production of the third Narnia film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
The first Narnia movie, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, made almost 300 million domestically, while Prince Caspian couldn’t even crack 200 million. This could be attributed to anything from the stiff competition of Iron Man and Indiana Jones, but then again the first Narnia had to go up against Peter Jackson’s King Kong back in 2005
I was never a huge fan of the Narnia movies, but my heart does go out for fans of the world that hoped to see their favorite books come to life on the big screen.
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Well that’s a disappointment.
I liked Prince Caspian, but it didn’t really leave me wanting to see another Narnia movie.
I liked Caspian better than the “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”. But then again, this series of books was already starting to show the difficulties in converting the books to movies. What with the different characters, the odd chronological mess, etc.
Also, I found the “…then again the first Narnia had to go up against Peter Jackson’s King Kong back in 2005″ to be funny. I know that several people actually liked the movie (I’m sorry). But still, it’s far from Iron Man and Indiana Jones. Each of those movies made about $100 million more than King Kong, and were probably closer to the target audience than King Kong was.
I haven’t seen Prince Caspian yet, but Voyage is probably my favorite of the books (from what I remember). I was looking forward to the movie version, disappointing, but understandable.
@Saberj- what I meant by the King Kong reference was that back in the winter of 05, everyone was expecting King Kong to open huge and Narnia was kind of an underdog. But, Narnia ended up being a lot more successful financially then Narnia. So it was interesting that a second Narnia, once again faced with stiff box office competition, but this time ended up on the losing end.
King Kong was my favorite movie of 2005, just fyi.
A mate of mine was cast in this, that’s a shame, but Prince caspian was awful as was Wardrobe. Oh well, another franchise dead.
I was also a big King Kong fan with it being my 4th favourite of 2005, after Serenity, Batman and The 40 Year Old Virgin.
It’s sad when a $400million dollar worldwide take in theaters on a budgeted $200 million dollar movie isn’t enough. Still, I still think Caspian was a great movie.
Eh, the BBC miniseries from the 80’s was good enough for me as a kid, it can be good enough for kids these days, so I’m not disapointed by this.
The books simply don’t have a big fluidity that they need to make a huge franchise out of. Just stick witht the BBC mini, IMHO.
I am currently reading all these books, I’m currently in the Magician’s Nephew, and to me I’m not sure that any of the other movies would even make good films. Voyage would have been good, in my opinion, but after that I don’t think they would translate well. I liked the first two films, but they are not as good as they are in the books.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe never did it for me as a book. The movie was decent, but it had a lot of flaws (I hated the battle scenes, as they looked really low budget). I never got to Prince Caspian as a result of not digging the first book, so I can’t speak for how it was. However, I liked Prince Caspian the movie more than The LWW. A lot of that had something to do with the child actors being a bit better the second time around, and the battle being much more epic.