According to the New Zealand Herald, which has recently become the movie news hotspot with all the high-profile filming going on, time is not being wasted on readying the script for the follow-up sequel to the yet-to-be-released Disney film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
The article goes on to say that Mark Zoradi, president of Buena Vista International, Disney’s foreign distributor, told film website Screen Daily that it was an ideal time to begin work on the next screenplay.
If The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was successful, he said, Disney might decide to film the next two at the same time.
The new script may be Prince Caspian, Lewis’ second Narnia novel, although there is debate over the best order in which to read the series.
The films will all be based on the C.S. Lewis Narnia series, which has become a children’s literature must over the years and filming is currently underway on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and will continue in Auckland until October, when it will move to the South Island and the Czech Republic before the movie’s scheduled release at the end of next year, Christmas 2005.
