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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
rynne:
Late, but....
--- Quote from: axerton on 24 May 2008, 07:46 ---It seems an odd choice to make the movies in the written order as opposed to the chronological order. I mean, most novel-to-screen movies have to go on the assumption that the books haven't been read.
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IIRC, the chronological reordering came about from Lewis' response to a child writing him a letter: the child said he thought the right way to read them was chronologically and his mom said the right way was order of writing. Lewis wrote back saying he agreed with the child, but it's not clear that he wasn't just being polite. In any case, it was Lewis' son who seized on that single letter and insisted on reordering the books chronologically after Lewis died (a recent occurrence, too; my childhood set still had LWW first). AFAIK Lewis himself never had any issues with people reading them in the written order during his lifetime.
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 21 May 2008, 04:22 ---Although the good Professor didn't work a Ragnarok into his tale
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He did at one point! The original Book of Lost Tales mythology had a sweet end-times battle where Melkor returns and battles the Valar; Turin was fated to slay Melkor and avenge the Children of Hurin. But I think that was either deliberately abandoned or just forgotten, 'cause Tolken didn't revisit that scene when he started revising the Silmarillion post-LotR.
Surgoshan:
My last roommate (a bitch, but that's a different story) had the Chronicles collected into a single book. It was published some time in the last few years and was collected in the order written rather than chronological.
Orbert:
I read the books in chronological order, because that's the order my set has them in. I think it would be interesting to read them in the order in which they were written, because it's always fun to see how the author chose to "fill in the gaps".
As for the order in which they're making the movies, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is the first book to most people, and had the most potential to make a good first movie anyway. Even those with the chronological set recognize that The Magician's Nephew is really a prequel to the other Narnia stories. Prince Caspian made the most sense to make next because it has all four Pevensies and feels the most directly like a sequel. I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with the publishing order or the chronology; it just made more sense as a cinematic sequel.
rynne:
--- Quote from: singeivoire on 28 May 2008, 10:26 ---Actually, I'll be really surprised if they do all of the books: I suspect they'll stall after Dawn Treader. Maybe they'll do The Silver Chair if everyone likes whoever they get to play Eustace. It seems hard to market a series of movies that completely changes cast every installment.
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That's how it was done in the BBC television series. They did the LWW, PC, VDT, and SC over three series (I think PC and VDT were combined) and then stopped. It makes sense, 'cause you've got a linear progression of main characters.
Lines:
Yeah, PC and VDT were combined into one movie. Which was good, because it makes Caspian more interesting.
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