Prince Caspian Rumors

A January 9 article in Variety has fanned the flames of rumors about Prince Caspian getting the greenlight from Walden Media. First, there was a now-removed posting on one of the Walden Media message boards claiming that Adamson had signed a deal, and that has been followed by rumblings that Adamson is, in fact, out. Who knows?

Two curious things about this whole scenario: First, neither Disney nor Walden Media has issued any kind of press release about the status of a sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—despite the fact that the film now stands a chance of becoming the studio's highest grossing live-action film in history, taking over that honor from The Sixth Sense. (Never mind that the Narnia film, heavy as it is in the special-effects department fits in some never-never land between animation and live-action, or the fact that the budget for The Sixth Sense was likely a tenth that of the Narnia film.)

Second, if Variety's quote from Walden co-head Cary Granat is accurate, Walden isn't even planning to start production on the movie until late this year at the earliest—so Prince Caspian couldn't possibly hit theatres before late in 2007.

Could they really be thinking that the enthusiasm for Narnia would bear up under a two-year hiatus?

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Variety, 09.01.06