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Disney Won't VOYAGE On The DAWN TREADER!! Will There Even Be A Third NARNIA Film Now??


Merrick here...


For a variety of reasons, Disney has decided not to move forward with THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. The project was in development under director Michael Apted (THUNDERHEART, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, HBO's ROME), who was working from a screenplay by EASTERN PROMISES scripter Steven Knight.

It is rare for a studio to pull out of a planned trilogy in midstream, but the number-crunching showed a franchise on a downward trend. "Lion" roared to $292 million domestically and another $453 million internationally in 2005. This year, "Prince Caspian" grossed a healthy $141 million in North America and another $278 million internationally, but that was well off the "Lion" take.

...explains THIS piece at Hollywood Reporter.

Walden Media is now free to pursue other co-financing/producing/releasing avenues.



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Fuck Disney
by Son of a Butch
Dec 24th, 2008
07:10:50 AM
Wow
by Mr.Deadite
Dec 24th, 2008
07:11:52 AM
Damnit
by Mr.Deadite
Dec 24th, 2008
07:12:20 AM
Wrong release date
by Charlie_Allnut
Dec 24th, 2008
07:19:09 AM
No shit...
by Son of a Butch
Dec 24th, 2008
07:22:51 AM
Disney's Caspian was terrible
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Dec 24th, 2008
07:23:22 AM
December release idiots
by marathonjedi
Dec 24th, 2008
07:28:27 AM
No surprise
by GeorgieBoy
Dec 24th, 2008
07:28:41 AM
Agreed, Charlie_Allnut
by SamuelLappDance
Dec 24th, 2008
07:32:33 AM
grammaton... don't know what movie you saw
by crashbarbarian
Dec 24th, 2008
07:43:15 AM
That's a shame
by GoSensGo
Dec 24th, 2008
07:44:27 AM
Haven't seen Caspian yet...
by The Funketeer
Dec 24th, 2008
07:47:38 AM
Haven't seen Caspian yet...
by The Funketeer
Dec 24th, 2008
07:47:40 AM
Finally, a studio makes a smart financial decision
by YackBacker
Dec 24th, 2008
07:48:57 AM
crashbarbarian has a point
by Son of a Butch
Dec 24th, 2008
07:49:50 AM
Hallelujah!
by kwisatzhaderach
Dec 24th, 2008
07:51:35 AM
TOTALLY AGREE
by BurgerTime
Dec 24th, 2008
08:00:47 AM
I can just hear the Disney execs....
by Son of a Butch
Dec 24th, 2008
08:05:12 AM
THE CHRONICLES OF...
by Dead_Geek
Dec 24th, 2008
08:06:32 AM
They'll find someone
by pumaman
Dec 24th, 2008
08:08:57 AM
If Warner Bros had lost confidence
by Mr Gorilla
Dec 24th, 2008
08:11:00 AM
Really disappointed by this move
by Drath
Dec 24th, 2008
08:15:35 AM
Apted not really right, either...
by Mr Gorilla
Dec 24th, 2008
08:15:52 AM
Sad...
by godric
Dec 24th, 2008
08:16:26 AM
Disney makes a mistake, blames someone else.
by Phimseto
Dec 24th, 2008
08:17:15 AM
I'm sorry, but Narnia was boring.
by AgentArchangel
Dec 24th, 2008
08:18:18 AM
Thank GOD. Now make Golden Compass 2
by RogueWarrior65
Dec 24th, 2008
08:31:58 AM
Horrible release strategy
by zacdilone
Dec 24th, 2008
08:33:45 AM
i think releasing star trek in the summer
by robamenta
Dec 24th, 2008
08:37:54 AM
They should have filmed, "A Horse and His Boy."
by Leafar the Lost
Dec 24th, 2008
08:46:02 AM
Lets face it...
by Turtle_Z
Dec 24th, 2008
08:50:01 AM
Well this is sad.
by Starfox221
Dec 24th, 2008
08:50:36 AM
Since They're Not Making It, Somebody Tell Me How It Ends
by estacado1
Dec 24th, 2008
08:51:51 AM
They never did get the tone of the movies quite right...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
09:00:55 AM
agree on Star Trek
by marathonjedi
Dec 24th, 2008
09:01:19 AM
I too agree that the placing of PC on the summer schedule doomed
by VAWitch
Dec 24th, 2008
09:06:07 AM
Well... that kinda sucks.
by 7pointedstar
Dec 24th, 2008
09:07:15 AM
Wow there really have been some amazing revelations here!
by JustyHakubi
Dec 24th, 2008
09:12:59 AM
Blame Walden Media for Caspian's summer 08 release
by Wayne6000
Dec 24th, 2008
09:13:31 AM
Leafar the Lost...I disagree...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
09:15:56 AM
Dammit Disney, you now have no reason to exist.
by scottishnutjob
Dec 24th, 2008
09:18:13 AM
Walden won't let it die on the vine.
by Royston Lodge
Dec 24th, 2008
09:22:31 AM
Again, HOLLYWOOD SUCKS DONKEY BALLS!
by Darth_Kaos
Dec 24th, 2008
09:22:35 AM
Dammit its good news if it goes elsewhere.
by HermesTrismestigus
Dec 24th, 2008
09:25:24 AM
wasn't The WaterHorse
by Bloo
Dec 24th, 2008
09:29:09 AM
Who gives a fuck
by Crow3711
Dec 24th, 2008
09:30:44 AM
the smart move
by Mr Gorilla
Dec 24th, 2008
09:31:47 AM
You Christian faggots blaming Disney are fucking hypocrites...
by FiendishMilt37
Dec 24th, 2008
09:35:49 AM
Prince Caspian was a brilliant film IMO
by performingmonkey
Dec 24th, 2008
09:39:33 AM
The fact of the matter is...
by herr_howard
Dec 24th, 2008
09:39:57 AM
Let George Romero dircect it
by Knobules
Dec 24th, 2008
09:40:57 AM
The problem with the Golden comapss...
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
09:48:43 AM
As I was trying to say...
by herr_howard
Dec 24th, 2008
09:48:59 AM
...IT HUUUUUURTS!!!!!!!......
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
09:50:22 AM
Fuck you Disney. Just keep sucking Pixar's cock....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
09:52:10 AM
This was called a while back...
by bc1970
Dec 24th, 2008
09:56:07 AM
Walden still needs to give us "Greenwitch".
by Anna Valerious
Dec 24th, 2008
09:56:47 AM
I was shocked at the cowardly way.....
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
09:56:56 AM
Disney did a lousy job with the Narnia films anyway.
by jimmy rabbitte
Dec 24th, 2008
09:57:46 AM
emeraldboy...agreed. And the Golden Compass movie...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
09:59:12 AM
movie studios are scared of the backlash..
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
10:00:38 AM
...um. or just regular "real" BBC of course.
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
10:01:26 AM
Hey Milt
by JustyHakubi
Dec 24th, 2008
10:01:37 AM
Lion = Jesus = No Thanks...
by Frank Black
Dec 24th, 2008
10:06:23 AM
Tale of desparuex
by killianx
Dec 24th, 2008
10:06:41 AM
Oh and Disney...
by killianx
Dec 24th, 2008
10:08:59 AM
JustyHakubi... your theory is SHIT
by FiendishMilt37
Dec 24th, 2008
10:12:32 AM
Killianx
by FiendishMilt37
Dec 24th, 2008
10:14:22 AM
I avoided the golden compass movie
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
10:14:31 AM
Speaking of appropriate budgets...I just caught...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
10:15:06 AM
Sorry, but I got distracted during 'Caspian'
by zinc_chameleon
Dec 24th, 2008
10:24:49 AM
Milt
by JustyHakubi
Dec 24th, 2008
10:41:16 AM
yeah, who needs another $100 million
by rodneyfaile
Dec 24th, 2008
10:46:30 AM
Christians didnt show up
by Omegaman
Dec 24th, 2008
10:47:02 AM
Breaking News-
by Flyingcircus
Dec 24th, 2008
10:47:53 AM
Hated Narnia
by Sci_Fi_Wasabe
Dec 24th, 2008
10:49:55 AM
It was the release date
by Zeegloo
Dec 24th, 2008
10:58:04 AM
At least Andrew Adamson is gone, fantasy filmmaking is screwed
by drturing
Dec 24th, 2008
11:09:39 AM
thats the thing-- they're not losing money.
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
11:11:20 AM
GoSensGo
by gotilk
Dec 24th, 2008
11:15:38 AM
...I want to watch a deeply eccentric...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
11:31:39 AM
Probably just as well
by Subtlety
Dec 24th, 2008
11:38:10 AM
This is Not Insurmountable...
by DeeJay
Dec 24th, 2008
11:41:44 AM
But I Was So Looking Forward To...
by wampa_one
Dec 24th, 2008
11:42:11 AM
But on a positive note
by wampa_one
Dec 24th, 2008
11:44:55 AM
Ironically
by bellwether
Dec 24th, 2008
11:45:37 AM
drturing
by Subtlety
Dec 24th, 2008
11:46:12 AM
Even I know...
by Gremlin517
Dec 24th, 2008
11:49:46 AM
Key to Box Office Gold
by Itchy
Dec 24th, 2008
11:50:18 AM
I don't know any fans of the books who name Prince Caspian as th
by shatnerd
Dec 24th, 2008
11:53:15 AM
Disney wanted an adventure/fantasy franchise...
by hillvalley
Dec 24th, 2008
12:02:13 PM
No battles in Dawn Treader == hard sell to non fans
by JasonPratt
Dec 24th, 2008
12:13:07 PM
The Problem With This as a Franchise...
by Lost_Horizon
Dec 24th, 2008
12:25:16 PM
"So honey, what movie should we take the kids
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
12:26:46 PM
Statistics FAIL
by SG7
Dec 24th, 2008
12:30:33 PM
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
by kwisatzhaderach
Dec 24th, 2008
12:35:54 PM
oh and one other thing...
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
12:39:01 PM
Caspian did nothing for me
by MattmanReturns
Dec 24th, 2008
12:43:05 PM
The real problem with the Golden Compass
by drturing
Dec 24th, 2008
12:45:42 PM
which reminds me...
by drturing
Dec 24th, 2008
12:46:31 PM
Stupid thinking
by Dreamwriter
Dec 24th, 2008
12:46:36 PM
Best moment in Lion Witch and Wardrobe movie
by drturing
Dec 24th, 2008
12:49:52 PM
BilboFett = Jondough
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Dec 24th, 2008
12:53:23 PM
kwisatzhaderach
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
12:55:06 PM
Worst costume design ever in Lion Witch and Wardrobe
by drturing
Dec 24th, 2008
12:55:28 PM
kwisatzhaderach -- and thanks for following me...
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
12:55:51 PM
YES!!!!!!!!
by DarthJedi
Dec 24th, 2008
01:05:37 PM
Hah Hah, its their fault for a summer release
by Stormwatcher
Dec 24th, 2008
01:09:53 PM
This series was just gaining steam.
by Steve Young
Dec 24th, 2008
01:27:37 PM
I don't think its dead....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
01:34:23 PM
What happened between the two films. . .
by jimmay
Dec 24th, 2008
01:36:47 PM
"every fantasy/scifi franchise" jimmay?...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
01:47:45 PM
Narnia sucks anyway
by BMacSmith
Dec 24th, 2008
01:47:51 PM
Another studio would indeed be smart to...
by crankyoldguy
Dec 24th, 2008
01:49:26 PM
also, if another Studio came up with a winner...
by crankyoldguy
Dec 24th, 2008
01:50:01 PM
They were crap
by lb
Dec 24th, 2008
01:56:18 PM
Eragon isn't a franchise, is it?
by jimmay
Dec 24th, 2008
01:56:18 PM
And yes, Eragon was terrible.
by jimmay
Dec 24th, 2008
01:58:38 PM
...but it oh so desperately wanted to be...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
01:59:30 PM
Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:05:49 PM
...and there are a bunch more of those ERAGON...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
02:08:31 PM
Golden Compass sucked, sorry
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:10:17 PM
Headache dude
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:11:36 PM
I would proud of that
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:12:42 PM
Eragon???
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:14:41 PM
Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World is
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:16:39 PM
headache guy, I take it back
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:19:06 PM
...don't you worry your pretty little head about it Bilbo...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
02:22:37 PM
Prince Caspian was Great--Disney Blew it!
by YAYBLUERAY
Dec 24th, 2008
02:35:50 PM
anyone even care about the next Potter movie?
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
02:37:40 PM
The next POTTER movie is as inevitable as...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
02:44:09 PM
Yes. I'm really looking forward to the next Potter film.
by Imagikafan
Dec 24th, 2008
02:56:38 PM
"I co-wrote a TTT review, still remembered to this day."
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
02:58:19 PM
BilboFett -- you're obsessed with Script Girl....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
03:01:18 PM
Potter 6 has had a few talkbacks
by jimmay
Dec 24th, 2008
03:05:18 PM
...whenever I congregate with one or more of my...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
03:06:50 PM
I'll bet Jondough
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Dec 24th, 2008
03:37:25 PM
The scene in Eragon where Jeremy Irons..
by emeraldboy
Dec 24th, 2008
03:40:25 PM
Eragon, Golden Compass, Narnia...
by GavinVanDraven
Dec 24th, 2008
04:12:15 PM
It all comes down to this:
by Logan_1973
Dec 24th, 2008
04:17:01 PM
I agree Logan....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
04:19:33 PM
dturing
by Subtlety
Dec 24th, 2008
04:24:20 PM
Again, the release date argument doesn't work
by jimmay
Dec 24th, 2008
04:29:11 PM
jimmay
by Logan_1973
Dec 24th, 2008
04:45:59 PM
DannyGlover's Dickhead works for Adolf Hitler?
by I am the Terminator
Dec 24th, 2008
04:50:11 PM
Pity, Voyage of the Dawn Treader would be a
by Amy Chasing
Dec 24th, 2008
05:02:18 PM
DISNEY IS SMART, NARNIA MOVIES ARE SHIT
by grievenom
Dec 24th, 2008
05:08:04 PM
Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World is
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
05:22:29 PM
Dickblood, sir
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
05:23:40 PM
attn: flickapoo
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
05:24:54 PM
BilboFett -- I can't quit you either.
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
05:44:27 PM
I think you might be onto something Prossor....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 24th, 2008
06:16:28 PM
i liked them both
by El Borak
Dec 24th, 2008
07:06:37 PM
Oh well...fuck you Disney!
by pokadoo
Dec 24th, 2008
07:27:08 PM
not surprised
by droidonthemoon
Dec 24th, 2008
07:27:33 PM
FiendishMilt37
by zacdilone
Dec 24th, 2008
07:34:37 PM
I could have seen this coming miles away.
by The Reluctant Austinite
Dec 24th, 2008
07:35:25 PM
well
by LegoKenobi
Dec 24th, 2008
08:03:37 PM
Golden Axe?...I was more of a Rastan man myself...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 24th, 2008
08:19:31 PM
A Horse and His Boy will never be made, and
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Dec 24th, 2008
09:03:52 PM
Bad move
by BurnHollywood
Dec 24th, 2008
09:21:52 PM
Bad move, Disney
by SlickyVonBoner
Dec 24th, 2008
10:03:29 PM
After what Walden did to "The Dark is Rising"
by AnnoyYou
Dec 24th, 2008
10:26:06 PM
AnnoyYou
by Subtlety
Dec 24th, 2008
10:53:21 PM
They woudn't have made your movie anyway
by kesoze4
Dec 24th, 2008
10:53:29 PM
Just like HP, this should never have been...
by jimbojones123
Dec 24th, 2008
10:54:43 PM
kesoze4, wow
by BilboFett
Dec 24th, 2008
11:21:51 PM
good
by BurgerKing
Dec 25th, 2008
12:31:38 AM
Two movies do not make a "trend"
by moviemaniac-7
Dec 25th, 2008
12:31:53 AM
SHOULD HAVE STARTED WITH BOOK ONE
by LT Weezie
Dec 25th, 2008
01:18:27 AM
Are you guys just now bitching about Disney fucking movies up?
by ChuckImania
Dec 25th, 2008
02:56:13 AM
preferably a dark wing duck movie...
by ChuckImania
Dec 25th, 2008
02:57:52 AM
The Chronic What? Cals of Narnia
by Xiphos_2
Dec 25th, 2008
05:39:04 AM
Fox really needs to get their act together
by Anna Valerious
Dec 25th, 2008
06:53:51 AM
Oh, BTW...
by Anna Valerious
Dec 25th, 2008
06:54:40 AM
Oh, BTW...
by Anna Valerious
Dec 25th, 2008
06:54:42 AM
Damn enter button.,..
by Anna Valerious
Dec 25th, 2008
06:59:36 AM
LT Weezie
by Subtlety
Dec 25th, 2008
11:35:01 AM
The series starts with Lion...
by kesoze4
Dec 25th, 2008
11:42:46 AM
My take is that it's a casualty of the...
by Lobanhaki
Dec 25th, 2008
12:44:07 PM
All studios will be affected by the credit crisis...
by emeraldboy
Dec 26th, 2008
12:10:20 PM
I think what hollywood will do is..
by emeraldboy
Dec 26th, 2008
12:12:10 PM
If you saw Martys Scorceses Cinema a personal journey...
by emeraldboy
Dec 26th, 2008
12:29:58 PM
Just saw Caspian
by Pissed Off And Bitter
Dec 26th, 2008
02:45:46 PM
Pissed off
by Subtlety
Dec 26th, 2008
05:05:41 PM
There will be a 3rd "Narnia" movie
by darthvedder81
Dec 26th, 2008
06:12:55 PM
Dawn Treader COULD feature battles!
by performingmonkey
Dec 26th, 2008
08:49:18 PM
GOOD!
by beatleMatt
Dec 27th, 2008
07:07:40 AM

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