‘Narnia: The Silver Chair’ Has a Screenwriter!

david mageeThis just in from the official Narnia twitter! Two time Academy Award nominee David Magee has been hired to write the screenplay adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair. He also wrote Life of Pi and Finding Neverland. View his IMDb.

Magee is the first, but possibly not the last, screenwriter to be hired. As many fans may remember, the script for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was passed around to quite a few screenwriters. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were the primary writers of the first three films, but there is no word on their involvement at this stage.

There is also still no news on a release date or a director, but this is certainly a big step for the production!

UPDATE: Read the full press release at Narnia.com.

David Magee stated, “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.”

70 Responses

  1. Enna says:

    So excited about this! Finding Neverland is my absolute favourite movie ever. Super pumped to see what he'll do with C. S. Lewis' amazing novel.

  2. Inpending Doom says:

    I'm not sure but I'm sure Tash or the White Which,would love to help you

  3. Some call me Tim says:

    I have always seen the Emerald Queen as someone like Catherine Zeta Jones or Tia Carrerra. Charlize Theron could certainly perform the role well, but I see this character more as a beauty that you can't even imagine with blond hair.

  4. Shift says:

    I'm going to be cautiously until I see this movie for myself

  5. Aslan's #1 Fan says:

    I agree!

    I have a hard time seeing him do Rilian. He's not what I pictured in my head. I kind of thought of Rilian as handsome and dangerous with a five o'clock beard.

  6. farsight1 says:

    Sounds a little simpler in theory than in reality. Could a low budget looking Narnia movie be excellent? Yes, I figure someone could probably make one even using paper cut-outs in their garage if they really wanted to, so long as the screenplay is strong enough. But Narnia in its current incarnation? A live action film with a lower-than-VTD budget that's consistent with the world established in the first couple of movies – exotic locations, creatures, medieval custom-built sets, CG effects – and believable enough so they won't distract from the story? *** Thinks of the look of anything in VTD except the ship itself and CRINGES *** THAT and the deadlines, the pressures from the studio, the distributor, the C.S. Lewis estate and the die-hard fans… I do NOT envy whoever is taking the director's chair for this movie right now 🙂 Whoever pulls this thing off is a genius.

  7. narniafuturepevensiewanttobe says:

    NARNIA is back get in i hope Will poulter is in it and for the last battle i suggest you put susan it that FILM

  8. narniafuturepevensiewanttobe says:

    yes Narnia

  9. DaughterofEve says:

    I hope this all works out…and with this book they are going to HAVE to be spot on with it. There are too many magical moments in this story to have it ruined. I thought the first movie did a great job with the "magical" feel but the second two were lacking something even though I enjoyed them all. I hope they are very dedicated to staying true to the book, and if they do it will be amazing!

  10. DaughterofEve says:

    Well, these ARE Christian books and that is what C.S. Lewis meant them to be. Everyone knows it by now, so it shouldn't matter that they include the Christian aspects. If Lewis hadn't been a Christian these books would not have been written.