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Disney Drops Out of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter
It seems that a fantasy series will go on without the Mouse House's involvement. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney will not produce or finance the third film in the Narnia series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

While the studio wouldn't go into further detail on the decision, it was said that financial and logistical reasons were behind the move to leave the franchise. The film was set to start principal photography in the spring, for a 2010 release, but the move puts the film and those attached in limbo. Michael Apted was set to direct from a script by Steven Knight, with Ben Barnes, George Henley, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian set to return.

While the first film in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was a huge success at the box office, taking in $292 million domestically, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian fell off sharply, grossing just $141 million at the domestic box office.

It was said that the film is being shopped around to the studios, and that Fox would be a likely suitor, as it distrbutes other non-Narnia films from Walden Media under its Fox Walden banner.


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January 2nd, 2009 7:57pm
well chronicles of narnia prince caspian was the first narnia movie I've seen and from my opinion the movie was great.i mean it told the story and had alot of action which was nice i think it was a pretty good movie overall. i dont see why disney wouldnt want to make another i mean just because the second doesnt do as good as the first doesnt mean you shouldnt make another one.
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December 31st, 2008 7:15am
Thanks Chad. My thoughts exactly.

Another thing to look at SuperCanaya, is the evolution of writing. Kids today are surprisingly bright and the market is aimed for children's books to have adult appeal. Lewis's Narnia books were written between 1949 and 1954, for his children, initially without thinking of publishing them, let alone having films made out of them. Narnia was the "Harry Potter" equivalent for that time. Judging a work by modern standards is preposterous. It's for CHILDREN. DUH! It's not like 2001 (film) where "stupid people" can't understand the ending. Oh well. If you don't even know what Bernstein Bears or Franklin the Turtle is, then you don't know what your talking about.
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December 30th, 2008 11:19am
Thank god...the last one was a piece of shit!
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December 29th, 2008 2:57pm
Harry Potter are kids books, but are intelligent and well planned. The first time think with stupid book but when I read it I understand why it is so popular. Eay to read is becouse the plot is very simple and predictable, very low book for a great philosopher and writer, C.S. Lewis. My grammar/spelling are bad becouse I speaking english but I dont write well, im not from Usa or England.
Bernstein Bears or Franklin the Turtle movie?. Whats that?
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December 29th, 2008 12:47pm
hahahahaha. WOW I can't believe this. I agree with Chad Vital.
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December 29th, 2008 12:39am
They are kids books supercanayaz... I hope you are joking cause that was probably thee dumbest thing I have ever read lol. "They are easy to read" lmao. Duh! Let me guess, if they make a Bernstein Bears or Franklin the Turtle movie, you will be here again one day saying "form me the books are weeks a easy too read" (btw, wtf to your grammar/spelling and word usuage lol?). Did you know they are filming Where the Wild Things are? Anyway, that "book" is really really easy to read and that's the point because wait get this, it's aimed for children OMG!!!! How can that be?! Someone hurry and document this, books for kids aimed for...kids! OMG!!! lol
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December 27th, 2008 12:17pm
Is my opinion, Diaigma, form me the books are weeks a easy too read
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December 27th, 2008 6:08am
The films are just fine, just bad directors and the wrong actors to lead the parts. The Books are very weak to begin with, why do you think the films suck in the first place? That is the main problem.
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December 26th, 2008 8:55pm
Well, they should make the last battle the movie becasue it will end the series.
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December 26th, 2008 4:39pm
... How did Lewis drop the ball with Chronicles, Comrade, CanayaZ? Yes, the movies weren't handled well, bad casting, but the books weren't that bad. He wrote them for his kids and someone published them. He didn't know it would become popular, or a major motion picture franchise. A great philosopher Lewis was, but it's refreshing that he concocted the epic fairytale/fantasy genre as well. I give him that much credit at least, for venturing out of his element.
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December 25th, 2008 9:04pm
Mother fing glory of up urs fox.

Why they got be such arsewipes.
I gotta wait to see the bloody rest of Watchmen, them bloody 30minutes were amazing and now i gotta wait.

Fox can bite Eddie Murphy's Ass with a Riddler questionmark on it
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December 25th, 2008 8:20pm
I hate FOX too, don't sweat it, they're pricks.
SuperCanay has a point. For such a great philosopher and writer, C.S. Lewis really dropped the ball on Chronicles.
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December 25th, 2008 7:27pm
OMG I hate FOX. srry for all who likes it, but till now none of the fox movies this year are really that good. I mean look at it siriously, the day the earth stood still, city of ember was also produced by fox and many other movies were not that good. I really really really liked disney being able to bring us chronicles of narnia. I hate FOX thiss year it sucked.
No offence to everyone who likes it that's just my opinion.
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December 25th, 2008 4:52pm
Same thing should be done for Twilight.
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December 25th, 2008 2:30pm
Chronicles of Narnia sucks the books and the movies
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December 25th, 2008 12:41pm
THIS JUST IN: FOX HAS WON THE WATCHMEN RULING AND RELEASE DATE IS SURE TO BE PUSHED BACK!...MOTHER OF ASS!!
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December 25th, 2008 10:44am
caspian was good (not great), but for disney to bail is WEAK!
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December 25th, 2008 9:16am
prince caspian sucked
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December 25th, 2008 7:51am
I agrre with wizdomes comment.. Caspian seemed to bring Narnia to a halt!!
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December 25th, 2008 12:10am
too bad....
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December 24th, 2008 10:10pm
I had a feeling this would happen, Prince Caspian was a disappointment in a way and it slowed the momentum of the fantasy series, unfortunately this has affected the third movie - hopefully another studio will pick it up.
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December 24th, 2008 8:58pm
as in Part 3 of Narnia (Voyage)
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December 24th, 2008 8:04pm
Whats pt3?
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December 24th, 2008 7:02pm
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was real good but The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian kind of sucked but looking forward to pt 3 still.
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December 24th, 2008 6:03pm
Frenzy, Disney did not, repeat NOT, make any movies with Pixar. Disney bought the distributing rights, cheap, I might add. The founder, John Lasseter, left Disney, for non-benevolent reasons, and started Pixar, to which the successes of Luxo Jr. and other early works gathered Disney's attention and they nabbed the studio's distrubting rights early, long before Toy Story was released. They've done the same thing with Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films to distribute them in America, making terrible English dubs too, I will add again.

Pixar is its own affiliation. Would you say Paramount makes movies WITH Dreamworks Animation? No. Paramount owns the distributing rights. Pixar is Disney's crutch, and they know it, and unlike Paramount, they will squeeze their name onto anything worthwhile, to save face more than money. Disney Studios does not care about quality anymore. Walt has rolled over in his grave several times by now, I'm sure.

The only thing's that Disney's done decently since 1996 was Emperor's New Grove, Tarzan, Brother Bear, National Treasure 1, Pirates 1, Enchanted. Everything else is a rehash, pop-culture gag, sorry remakes, or poorly conceived sequels.

Anyway, I'm glad Disney is pulling out. Besides, it's Walden Media that's making the films with Disney's money. All Disney's good for anymore is paying studios to make/release movies for them, as long as they get their name slapped above the title.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/companycredits

I may sound like a Disney hater, but if you knew some of the stunts they've pulled since 1994, as I do, you'd question their ethics as film makers. Many of the best animation pioneers LEFT Disney at one time or another (Richard Rich, Don Bluth, John Sanford (not the author), and Brad Bird). That should tell you something.

Despite my distaste for current Disney fair, I REALLY hope Christmas Carol and Prince of Persia are done well, and hopefully amend some of their ways, as they are involved in making them.
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December 24th, 2008 3:48pm
OK Fanboy, here's just the ones I like. This isn't counting the ones that while they were good, I didn't care for...

Any of the movies Disney did with Pixar, the other 2 Narnia movies, The Lion King, Aladin, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, all 3 Pirates of the Carribean, Glory Road, Invincible, National Treasure, Remember the Titans, The Three Musketeers (live action), Cool Runnings, and a # of others that at the very least were fun to watch.

I hope this doesn't completely kill the 3rd installment.
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December 24th, 2008 3:30pm
They did because of the money. If they had a december release date, like the first one, this probably wouldn't be happening right now.
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December 24th, 2008 3:08pm
I said that of the 3 pirates movies that the first one was the best.Disney has made good movies like Finding Nemo and Holes.
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December 24th, 2008 3:07pm
Fanboy:
Peter Pan. The Great Mouse Detective. Or were you only looking for live action? In which case, I should be allowed to include any movies I want from the Touchstone catalogue.

Outlaw is correct; however it's not just Disney that does that. I think the only larger studios that will pay attention to smaller, riskier films are Focus Features and Lionsgate.
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December 24th, 2008 2:43pm
name one good disney film??? let me guess you can only think of the first pirates one
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