Narnia Taken by Netflix

   

Not long ago, the TV giant Netflix has taken over the rights for all The Chronicles of Narnia books which would be the first time happening. In the light of this, it has been many years since Narnia was taken over with no much of "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT" happening right after. Here are some things that have happened after Netflix taken over Narnia:

2018 - 2019:

Based on a Wikipedia entry,

"On 3 October 2018, it was announced that Netflix and the C. S. Lewis Company had made a multi-year agreement to develop a new series of film and TV adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia. On 12 June 2019, it was announced that Matthew Aldrich will serve as the creative architect and oversee the development of Narnia films and television for Netflix." 

With this being said, the plans for The Silver Chair adaptation has been entirely put to scratch. 

2020:

Douglas Gresham, step son of C.S. Lewis (author) and producer of Narnia adaptations had an interview with William O Flaherty sometime November of last year however the interview was just released this year. You may watch the video below:

Based on the interview, Gresham said:

"I would love it to be an episodic thing, because with a movie, you have an hour, maybe two hour maximum if you really stretch it, to put an entire book — an adventure storybook — into the film, and you just can’t do it. You have to drop out so much good material. If you go to an episodic streaming system, you can put the whole book up there, and if you really were stupid you could add to it. [Laugh] Which I would have no intention of doing. But I would like to put the entire book, every single nuance of it, on the screen. And I think we could make fantastic Narnia movies that way."

With this being said, will we be seeing a whole new franchise or continue where we left off? That was with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader back in 2010 (a decade ago).

William O’Flaherty: If [Netflix] were here today and they say “we’ll give you carte blanche”, would you go with The Silver Chair or would you go with a reboot and go back to the beginning? What would be your preference?

Douglas Gresham: That would entirely depend on the budget. If we had a big enough budget I’d start from scratch and put everything in the book, in the films. One after the other and we wouldn’t take a break in-between [filming] until we’ve done them all. That would take a massive budget, of course… But I do think it would be a huge advantage to be able to get every single nuance of the book into the film. It would be much richer and much more entrancing. People would drop everything and dash to their screen.

And finally, what is the current state of the adaptations? When can we see it? Where's the trailer? Who will be the cast and crew? Who will direct it? Are there any release dates as of yet?

Douglas Gresham: But we did a deal with Netflix, and since that deal was done, I have not heard a word from them. So I can’t tell you what’s going on. I have no idea what’s actually happening in their offices or what they’re getting up to. So I can’t answer any questions about that. I wish I could because I’m getting kind of worried myself as to whether anything’s ever going to happen.

Excerpts from www.narniaweb.com

So with these thins being said, here are some things we know about the adaptation as of today:

-Netflix has the right to produce all Narnia stories to the screen (small or big)

-Matthew Aldrich will serve as a "creative architect" for the series

-Douglas Gresham wants the chronicles to be episodic (which means a film adaptation is unlikely

-Reboot from the start as what Douglash Gresham also expressed

-No director or casts yet

-Will the old casts reprise their roles? (hopefully but highly unlikely)

-No release date yet

-Narnia will most likely start from fresh

For now, we wait for more details about this and hope for the best