next up: The Magician's Nephew
Mar. 22nd, 2011 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardHuh. So the Powers That Be have decided that the next Narnia movie (yay!) will be The Magician's Nephew, not The Silver Chair.
If they can pull MN off, it will be gorgeous, because it's utterly unlike any of the other books and has such beautiful settings. It's so much more diverse than any of the other books, and we'll get Polly and Digory! Very exciting.
My cynical view on why they chose to do MN and not SC: they really want to get Tilda Swinton back, since she's a Big Name and she doesn't appear even tangentially in any of the other books (unless they have her play the Lady of the Green Kirtle, which, what? I heard that theory floated somewhere), and they want to make SC more of an action movie, for which they want Will Poulter to grow up a bit. But that's just me being cynical. (...oh, I just realized I really want Helena Bonham-Carter to be the Lady of the Green Kirtle. That would be awesome.)
If they can pull MN off, it will be gorgeous, because it's utterly unlike any of the other books and has such beautiful settings. It's so much more diverse than any of the other books, and we'll get Polly and Digory! Very exciting.
My cynical view on why they chose to do MN and not SC: they really want to get Tilda Swinton back, since she's a Big Name and she doesn't appear even tangentially in any of the other books (unless they have her play the Lady of the Green Kirtle, which, what? I heard that theory floated somewhere), and they want to make SC more of an action movie, for which they want Will Poulter to grow up a bit. But that's just me being cynical. (...oh, I just realized I really want Helena Bonham-Carter to be the Lady of the Green Kirtle. That would be awesome.)