From Hollywoodreporter, "Walt Disney Pictures' follow-up to Andrew Adamson's blockbuster "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" has been moved off the Christmas 2007 release schedule to summer 2008. Disney rescheduled "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" hours after Columbia Pictures circulated an announcement Tuesday staking a claim on December 8, 2007 for the domestic release of its new fantasy fable "The Water Horse." Columbia's similarly themed fantasy fable aimed at family audiences pre-empted by one week Disney's "Prince Caspian," which had been slated for December 14, 2007. Both sweeping epics are produced by Walden Media and when left to open one week apart were perfectly poised to cannibalize one another's 2007 Christmas boxoffice. The perceived threat to its family audience during the frame was enough to make Disney blink."
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As I recall, Prince Caspian was one of the weaker stories anyway. Although my perspective on that is pretty old.
I bet they do Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a summer flick, it seems like a better time for a sea-faring adventure. And they'll be done making Pirates of the Carribean movies by then, too.
Prince Caspian is the only other book to have all the kids in it - I think that's why they chose it next.
Oh yeah, it's the obvious choice, I'm just saying their call to back off of the holiday season was a good one. My favorite of those books was Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair, which came right after it. TSC would be a good holiday flick.
Let's see, doing this from memory, the books originally went:
1. Lion Witch Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. The Horse and His Boy
6. The Magician's Nephew
7. The Last Battle
#5 takes place during #1, in the long period after the main events when the four kids are ruling Narnia, but the four kids aren't the main characters and don't show up until the end.
#6 is about the old man in whose house #1's famous wardrobe is, when he's just a kid. It includes the origin stories of a lot of LWW's plot elements, like wardrobe, the witch and the lamppost (thought I was going to say lion, didn't you).
At some point the publishers decided to reorder the numbers on the books, so they worked as a chronology. So I think now #6 is #1 and #5 is #3. Pretty lame move.
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