Thu, 29 January 2009 at 1:06 am

Fox Saves ‘Narnia’ Franchise

Ben Barnes should be jumping up and down right about now. 20th Century Fox is saving the Chronicles of Narnia franchise!

One month ago, Disney severed ties with Walden Media in co-financing the third movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Variety is now reporting that Fox has taken over development and production. Wahoo!

The $140 million movie is expected to shoot in Australia and start as early as this summer. Prince Caspian cost $215 million to make and raked in $419 million worldwide. But that’s nothing compared to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which pulled in $745 million.

ALL HAIL, KING CASPIAN!

Posted to: Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley
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# 26

Lili @ 01/29/2009 at 3:30 pm

yey!!!!! thanks Fox! can’t wait to see more of Ben! and hopefully he get the role of Aro in “New Moon”…that would be Sweet!

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HAHA FOX = NOT SAVED @ 01/29/2009 at 3:47 pm

Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand, Eragorn, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Jumper, Live Free or Die Hard (PG-13!?!). Good luck to this franchise, as Fox has shown it does *so* well with its other properties.

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lakers fan in boston @ 01/29/2009 at 5:10 pm

i actually like their movies, i think they r pretty nice
nice to see some1 likes em =]

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Ali @ 01/29/2009 at 8:22 pm

I ,for one , am over the moon that Voyage of the Dawn Treader will finally get made!! It’s the best book in the Narnia series!! Best of luck to Fox and Walden. Long live Narnia!!!

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Terry @ 01/29/2009 at 10:00 pm

Yay!! I love the Chronicles of Narnia movies!! They were both great, and BEST of all–we get to see Ben Barnes yet again on the big screen. He sure is dreamy!!

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Chris @ 01/30/2009 at 2:21 am

Nice to hear Fox make a great decisio, scrowed Disney. Go on Narnia.

Long Live King Edmund

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lyl @ 01/30/2009 at 7:24 am

That is great news!!!

I really love Narnia movies!!!

I want to see Skandar, Georgie and Ben back!!!

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Kelly @ 01/31/2009 at 1:23 pm

I am so happy. I LOVE BEN BARNES!!! Good luck to Fox and Walden, hope you have great success. Actually, the Narnia movies aren’t that bad.

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# 34

Sandy @ 02/01/2009 at 2:27 pm

We love Ben Barnes. Go Narnia !!!

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anpi @ 02/02/2009 at 9:35 am

i think ben would be excellent as venom the villian in the spiderman 3 movie . .i heard they were trying to make a movie based on the villian. did anyone see his pictures where he was wearing black and his hair was styled differently from his usual?

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Agathe @ 04/26/2009 at 1:17 am

J’ai adoré le monde de Narnia, mais je dois dire que je suis extrêmement déçue de savoir que “peter” et “susan” ne feront pas partis du troisième volet. Je ne comprends pas cette démarche, william est au coeur du film: le retirer lui, c’est retirer tout intérêt à la suite de cette saga!

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Joe Zen @ 04/27/2009 at 2:15 am

I thought the second one was okay but I can only describe the after taste as they spent 240 million and this is all we got?

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