Prince Caspian in 2007

[Laice07]

Director back for Narnia follow-up Prince Caspian

02 Feb 2006 by Paul Martin

Contributing sources: Hollywood Reporter

Andrew Adamson is set to return to the director's chair, having just inked a deal to helm "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." Adamson also will serve as a producer and co-writer, collaborating with returning scribes Christopher Markus and Steve McFeeley. The principal cast is coming back, as is producer Mark Johnson.

A screenplay is not yet written, but production is scheduled to begin this year with an eye toward a Christmas 2007 release. "Caspian" finds the four Pevensie siblings pulled back into the land of Narnia, where 1,000 years have passed since they left. The children are again enlisted to join the colorful creatures of Narnia, who have been driven into the wild, unfriendly parts of the land. The Pevensies must struggle to overthrow a usurping king named Miraz and restore the rightful heir to the throne, the young Prince Caspian.

"Caspian," published in 1951, is the second book in the seven-book series written by C.S. Lewis.

While it's no surprise that Disney and Walden would move ahead with a sequel, the behind-the-scenes negotiations have been drawn out. "Narnia" has grossed more than $637.8 million at the worldwide boxoffice. Internationally, it ranks as Buena Vista's top-grossing live-action release of all time, surpassing "Armageddon" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" with its gross to date of $359.4 million. The film has grossed $278 million domestically and is the studio's third-highest-grossing live-action film. It is on track to surpass "Pirates' " worldwide gross of $655 million to become Buena Vista's all-time top live-action grosser. The movie also received three Oscar nominations Tuesday.

"I'm unbelievably relieved that what we hoped has happened," Walden Media co-founder and CEO Cary Granat said about the success of the first film. "It reminds me of when I was kid and saw clouds and wondered how it would be to touch one. And when you're an adult and you're on a mountain and actually have a chance to touch one, all you can think is, How cool! We're incredibly elated right now."

About Adamson returning, Granat added, "To me, the most exciting aspect of all of this is that there is so much that Andrew wanted to express and do in the first film, and now he'll have a chance to."

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I'm excited with this predictable news Although not my favourite in the series(the goes to Dawn Tredder) it is my 3rd(right after The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe). I do think they'll make only 3 or 4, the director wants to do Dawn Tredder, but Disney might just go in the end to "The Last Battle"

Edit: 2007 looks like its going to be an unbelievable year at the Box Office: Pirates 3, Shrek 3, Harry Potter and The Order of The Phenoix, Spiderman 3, and Prince Caspian.

Edited February 3, 2006 by Laice_

[TheArsenal]

Director back for Narnia follow-up Prince Caspian

02 Feb 2006 by Paul Martin

Contributing sources: Hollywood Reporter

"Caspian," published in 1951, is the second book in the seven-book series written by C.S. Lewis.

[Laice07]

The order is always something thats going to be argued, I don't know a lot of it, but I do have the the large book with all the books in it, and Caspian is the fourth, but didn't Lewis publish it 2nd?

[TheArsenal]

I think you're right....it was published a year after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and was published before the first and third book. I'm too lazy to check the publishing dates of the last three books but I'll assume they were late.

[GCCWolverine]

In terms of the order that they were published by Lewis, it goes:

Lion - Caspian - Treader - Chair - Horse - Nephew - Battle

In terms of the order that things actually occur in the world of Narnia, it goes:

Nephew - Lion - Horse - Caspian - Treader - Chair - Battle

The Magician's Nephew creates the world of Narnia - the Pevensies enter the world in the Wardrobe, and the Horse and his Boy follows the adventures of one of the children. A thousand years later, the four re-enter Narnia to help Caspian, and three years later, Edmund and Lucy (joined by a cousin, Eustance) rejoin Caspian at sea with the Dawn Treader. These are followed by the Silver Chair and the Last Battle.

I'm a fan of reading them the way Lewis released them - *SPOILERS*

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If you read the Magician's Nephew, you already know about the magic in the wardrobe, the street lamp, the professor's history, etc.