Narnia's Dawn Treader

[lojack1976]

Originally Posted by immortalchaos

Originally when Disney started these movies they said they were going to 6 total on the scale of Lord of the Rings. The first movie didn't do nearly as well as they had hoped from try to ride the tail end of the Epic Magic Movie thing that LOTR started. So really I am not suprised at all that they got rid of the movie to another company and really after the first movie alone I am not expecting much from the rest of the Franchise after it. I mean Caspian flopped and waredrobe was slightly above average as far as a movie went. I'm not even going to expect this one to make back what they end up putting into it in the long run

That's just my opinion though.

Well to quote IMDB, "The franchise's first outing, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, raked in more than $745 million (£532 million), while follow-up Prince Caspian took in $419 million (£299 million) worldwide."

That's not LOTR money, but neither of these movies flopped, and I'm sure the home video market has been very kind to Disney. After LORT Disney was just hoping to have another mega-hit on their hands, and ended up with just a hit.

This seems to be the trend with movie studios these days. They want mega-hits to milk. Look at POTC. Disney will put all of their resources into that since it turned out to be a huge property. Even Disney was surprised at how well the first one did. There wasn't any plans for a sequel initially.

Personally I liked both Narnia movies and I look forward to the next installment. I do think there can be improvements in the series with the right directing and improved writing, and hopefully this is what will happen.

Part of the problem may be that they just aren't long enough. When it comes to book-to-film transfers cuts are a necessity, but Peter Jackson was smart enough to give us longer than average movies for the theatrical releases, and even then the extended versions are far superior. I refuse to watch the theatrical versions myself which is why I won't buy the Blu's until the extended versions are released. If the writers and the director can just flesh things out a bit more I think the next Narnia film may go over better.