After Disney dropped the Narnia movies after Prince Caspian, and 20th Century Fox’s Voyage Of The Dawn Treader didn’t prove a massive hit, most thought that would be last of CS Lewis’ tales to get adapted. However a couple of months ago a film version of The Silver Chair was announced, although with different backers to any of the previous movie.
Now it’s been announced, via Deadline, that screenwriter David Magee, who received an Oscar nomination for writing the Life of Pi, has signed up to write the screenplay for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair.
Mark Gordon is producing the movie and commented, “I have always loved The Chronicles of Narnia and I endlessly imagined myself finding my own passage into Narnia someday. All these years later, I’m getting to fulfill that wish just a little bit by writing the film adaptation of The Silver Chair and could not be more excited about it.”
As yet there’s no studio backing the movie, but the hope is that Gordon and co. can put a package together that will tempts investors in.