In What Order Should They Release The Films?

[hockeykid53]

I really hope they do it how they were written in the orginal order because a lot of the surprise is given away when you learn all the secrets.

[tgraveline]

Thats how i think they will do it. They will stick with the correct order i believe.

tg

[hockeykid53]

I think that if they combine flims the LWW and The Last Battle should be the longest. Combine Price Caspian and Dawn Treader and combine Silver Chair with The Horse and His Boy.

[Specter]

The original order is the best order to do these books, in my opinion. Either order, the Last Battle will be the last movie in the series.

[tgraveline]

As it should be, look at the title, last battle, sounds bout right to put it at the end to me, yes i know i'm stating the obvious but someone has to stick their neck out and say it.

tg

[Sp00nie]

You can hardly put the last battle in the middle! after all...


****Last Battle Spoilers****
It ends with the destruction of the original Narnia - it would be a little difficult to follow that with something set in Narnia!
****End Spoilers****

[bunniesnicker]

I agree with hockeykid. It would give away all the surprises if they released them in chronological order. And of course the last battle should be last..... unless they really want to get some time warps going, the whole real time vs narnia time is confusing enough!

[hockeykid53]

They could make it a time travel film and do it in a radom order!!! :unsure:

[faeriechylde]

They should definitely do it in the original order... that's the order I've always read the books in and I can't get used to it any other way. Of course, I guess it really wouldn't matter when they did "The Horse and His Boy" (As long as they did it!!!)

[AngelStephie]

I guess I don't care the order, as long as they don't make half the movies then stop. Or change casts. I really, reallt hate that!!

[plastik]

That would be horrible if they change casts! Are they planning on making one film at a time, or filming them all together ala LotR?

[Specter]

They will be filmed separately. sadly

[andrea]

I Think It should be released in the new order:

The Magicians Nephew
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last battle

I think it would just make more sense and be simpler for all the people who havent read the books. [/SIZE]

[Orc_bane]

I believe they should leave them in the original order, I mean that is the order C.S. Lewis chose. I also think that the films can stand alone by themselves without being combined. It would be kind of strange to go to the theaters and in the middle of the movie switch to an entirely new story. I don't think it would work unless they made some really big changes to the story. The BBC only got away with it because it was a low budget production and not a major motion picture.

[plastik]

I think the original order would be the way to go. That way everything isn't given away a few movies in.

[Y. Fish]

I read the books in the new chronological order, before I knew that they ever came in any other order. I'd like to see how the experience of the story changes when you see it the original way.

[Between_the_Worlds]

I think that the movies should be released in this order:

The Magicians Nephew
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

But I think they should be filmed in this order:

The Magicians Nephew
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Last Battle

And I sorely wish that they would film it like LOTR, all at once.

[Lunis]

Well, since Between_the_Worlds said every thing I would, ...No comments.
Except for, yeah! I really wish that they'd film them all at once! Well, then again, some of the characters do have to age a little between stories..hhm. :mellow: :rolleyes:

[faeriechylde]

Between the Worlds has a point... in that order it would be less confusing for those who had never read the books... hmm, it's hard... :unsure:

[Gleeleaf]

I wish they'd release them in that order too, but I think they're already doing it the original way, aren't they? :unsure:
I think it'd be confusing for people who have not read the books to see the movies in the order of the original books.

[Lunis]

Hmm, that would be quite confusing. :huh:

[Y. Fish]

I don't think so. I've noticed this in a lot of series I've read backwards or out-of-order (Narnia, Enchanted Forest, Myst, etc.) that the first books written in a series, even though they might not come first chronologically, usually explain the "world" the series takes place in. Books written after the first ones sort of recap what was explained in the first books about the setting and the backstory, but they don't usually spend much time explaining it because they assume that the reader read the books that came before in the series. It gets confusing to read the story without a true grasp of basic concepts of the book's "world"-- at least it did for me, especially in the Enchanted Forest where I read Talking to Dragons first. Therefore, it makes more sense to the reader to read the books/see the movies in their original order, rather than chronologcally.

Now, the only question is, am I making sense? :wacko:

[Gleeleaf]

Yeah, perfectly. ;) And you've got a good point. Besides, it'd probably be funner for them not to know all about Professor Ketterly (Diggory) and how Narnia came to be and all that before they watch LWW. It'd be more exciting to not know where the Witch came from, what or who she is, and all that. I think you're right. In fact, even if it didn't make sense, it'd be better for them to be released like Lewis released them. :D

[faeriechylde]

Diggory's last name is Ketterly? :blink:
Weird, for some reason i had forgotten that.

[Lunis]

Ho ho, Fae's memory problem strikes again. ;)

[Gleeleaf]

You do seem to forget things quite often, Fae dear. :rolleyes: Of course Diggory's last name is Ketterly, or how could he possibly grow up and become Professer Ketterly? Don't tell me you forgot that was the professer's name! :lol:

[faeriechylde]

That's exactly what I did forget, my darling Leafy.
You're right, I am quite forgetful :unsure:, but why should I bother to remember things when you and Luni always do? :D

[danathjo]

Out of all the books, My favourite is the Magcians Nephew... The hardest one to read was The horse and his boy. Loved the The Lion...Wardrobe, and Silver Chair as well.

I wish they would release them in order. :) - I don't think I have seen the Magicians Nephew done in live action....

[Legolas Turner]

I say the Original order, and not just dive into the history of narnia, for all those who havent read the books, but it allso nay be confusing that way, oh well I still lke the original order

[Lunis]

Well, L.T. be happy, for so far it looks as if they will be releasing them in the original order. B)

[Gleeleaf]

Yup, and that's a good thing. They're smart. B) :D

[cwdrummer87]

Hello

Many people have said on this thread that the films should be released in the so called "original" order that Mr. Lewis wrote them in. Many say this is how Mr. Lewis chose to put them in. This is incorrect, for Mr. Lewis did not think of writing The Magicians Nephew first. According to a letter written to a Laurence on the 23rd of April, 1957 he did not plan the books. Here is a copy of the letter:

April 23rd. [19]57
Dear Laurence
I think I agree with your order for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion, I did not know I was going to write anymore. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequal and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone reads them. I'm not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published. I never keep notes of that sort of thing and never remember dates.
Well, I can't say I have had a happy Easter, for I have lately got married and my wife is very, very ill. I am sure Aslan knows best and whether He leaves her with me or takes her to His own country, He will do what is right. But of course it makes me very sad. I am sure you and your mother will pray for us.
All good wishes to you both.
yours
C. S. Lewis


Acording to the editors, Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead, of C. S. Lewis Letters to Children:
Laurence's mother felt that the seven Chronicles of Narnia should be read in the order in which they were published, since she assumed that this sequence was intentional. Laurence, however, belived that the stories should be read chronologically according to Narnian time: The Magicians's Nephew, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle.
Lewis later reaffirmed his preference for Laurence's sequence.


I just wanted to correct any confusion.
It is my personal opinion that they should be released chronologically. Even though I know this is not going to happen according to the many websites that I have looked at, which have said that The L,W,W is going to come out in Christmas,2005. I doubt that they will continue with the seriese of movies. I of course hope they do.

Thank you for your time and consideration....

[Specter]

Thanks for the awesome summary of the books. I appreciate that. :) I've also got some of that information here: http://www.narniafans.com/books.php
Welcome to the site, by the way.

[Warrior-Poet51088]

I think they should release them in chronological order; it makes more sense to me that way....










...I doubt anybody's gonna reply to this :P

[possumlover278]

i think that they should release the films int he order in which the things happened in narnia

[eustace]

i can see them leaving out the horse and his boy.
it's out of the pattern of the rest of the stories and seven movies is a tall order.
they may leave out the magician's nephew too but it'd be a real pity. but everybody thinks that the lion, the withch and the wardrobe is the first story; it's the one most people have read.
it'd be cool if for the magician's nephew movie it started off at the end of the lion the witch and the wardrobe with digory as the professor telling the four pevensies the story of another boy who went into narnia, and you don't find out that it's him until the end, like the book.

[possumlover278]

i also think the original order
becuase that is the oreder in which things make hte most sense

[eustace]

i read the magicians nephew after the lion the witch and the wardrobe, like most people, i'm sure.
i remember finding it so exciting and fulfilling: where the wardrobe came from; the lamp post; the white witch; all these wonderful ideas of lewis'.
if i hadn't read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe it wouldn't have been nearly as fun.
you get to see the world you already love created if you read it in publishing order.
if you read it chronologically, you get to see a world you don't yet know created, and t probably wouldn't be as special.

the lord of the rings is only three movies; the narnia series would, at a maximum, be seven.
it's a lot of work to make such a big movie and there's no way there'll be the same continuation of cast and directors etc. as we've seen in LotR.
Look at harry potter. there's going to be a new director every year, and a cast memberor two often change. it's just too hard to do it otherwise.
it's a pity.
if the first movie is really successful they'll probably starta second, but we'll have to wait and see. it is, of course, an extremely exciting time for us.

[orangepippin]

Lewis wrote them with LWW first but afterwards stated that Magician's Nephew should be read first. I think they should film LWW first to get people/kids interested then MN next then the original order. It's always fun to have one prequel to explain how things became as they are now.

[NiennaTinuviel]

I hope they film all seven. They should have done it like LotR, then there would have been seven movies, all the same director and actors and everything.

[faeriechylde]

:blink: Wow! That would have been a lot of work.
I know they probably will not make "The Horse and His Boy", just because it doesn't fit in as well with the rest of the stories. Nonetheless, I am very saddened by the idea, because HHB is my favorite and I think it would have made a very good movie. :(
Eustace's idea for when to make TMN is a good one, I think, but it might be another one that ends up never being made, which is also quite a shame. :unsure:

[Dragon]

Personally I think they should be made in order of publication (LWW-TLB), that just seems the most natural way for a new Narnie to view them.

But when they release them in a video package, I think they should have them numbered chronologically (TMN - TLB), like how they have several of the book collections. As it says on the backs of my 1970's book set, "If you've never been to Narnia, you can enter it for the first time with any of the books."

Dispite what many "purists" say, CS Lewis wasn't that particular about the order. If I recall correctly, he had said that he wrote lots of them at the same time and wasn't sure that the order of publication was the order he had written them.

[LOST_and_Narnia_Fan!]

I think Magican nephew should be first because it tells you How Narnia became.

I guess I don't care the order, as long as they don't make half the movies then stop. Or change casts. I really, reallt hate that!!

[giselle]

The original order, I say. Even though I read the books in the new order, I think that the movies would work better in the other one. Besides, LWW has been already filmed and PC will be out next year. That is working, just as the books did when they were published.

Giselle