It has been three years since the last Chronicles of Narnia film hit theaters. However, it looks like we’ll be seeing the Narnia series on the silver screen once more.
The C.S. Lewis Company announced this week that they are partnering with The Mark Gordan Company to develop and produce a film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair.
“Like many readers, both young and old, I am a huge fan of C.S. Lewis’s beautiful and allegorical world of Narnia,” Mark Gordan, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, said in a statement. “These fantasy stories inspire real-world passion among millions of devoted fans around the world. As we prepare to bring the next book to life, we are humbled and excited to contribute to the outstanding legacy of Narnia.”
Douglas Gresham, the stepson of C.S. Lewis, also commented. “I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that Narnia engenders in the hearts of those who read the books to the screen in The Silver Chair. I am very much looking forward to diving once more into Narnia, this time with Mark Gordon and his team.”
Gordon and Gresham, along with Vincent Sieber, director of the C.S. Lewis Company, will produce the film. The Mark Gordon Company will develop the screenplay.
The first three films of The Chronicles of Narnia grossed a combined total of $1.6 billion worldwide.
Disney distributed the first two films, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, while Fox handled the third film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It is currently unknown if Fox will return to distribute The Silver Chair.
It is also unknown if any of the actors from the previous films will reprise their roles. The characters who return in The Silver Chair are Aslan (who was voiced by Liam Neeson in the previous films), Eustace Scrubb (who was played by Will Poulter in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), and an older King Caspian (who was shown as a young man played by Ben Barnes in Prince Caspian).
