10 Movie Sequels Stuck In Production Hell

Once a viable rival to Harry Potter as a big screen family fantasy franchise, the Chronicles Of Narnia series stalled a decade ago after adapting just three of CS Lewis's seven book series.

While the darker tinged fourth book, The Silver Chair - which sees reformed brat Eustace getting an adventure of his own featuring giants and underground kingdoms - may seem the obvious choice for a fourth movie, Narnia's producers at Walden Media initially announced in 2011 that they would instead go ahead with a version of prequel novel The Magician's Nephew.

Shortly afterwards, however, the chances of any further Narnia films were hampered by Walden losing the screen rights to the property, meaning that we would be unlikely to get a new movie until the mid-2010s.

In 2013 the CS Lewis estate announced that the franchise had been revived and that this time it would indeed be The Silver Chair that would come next. The film was to be a soft reboot, without any of the creative team from the previous instalments and funded by Sony rather than Disney or Fox. A script was completed and Captain America and Jumanji director Joe Johnston attached to the project in 2017 with filming likely to begin the following year.

Development on The Silver Chair was halted in late 2018, however, when Netflix acquired the screen rights to all seven Narnia books. Silver Chair producer Mark Gordon is still attached to the new project, overseen by Coco writer Matthew Aldrich, but the earlier Silver Chair script has been thrown out and, although no official announcement has been made, the likelihood is that this will be a complete reboot with Netflix starting once again from the beginning.

We will probably sit in the Silver Chair once again, then, but only once we've witnessed yet another Lion, another Witch and another Wardrobe.