Reprinted with the kind permission of the author
The cover sleeve of the video version
of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe".
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
(1989)
Prince Caspian (1990)
Voyage of The Dawn Treader (1990)
The Silver Chair (1991)
What else needs to be said about these productions. Good acting, stunning costumes and an unwavering devotion to the original stories; for any Narnian fan they are a must. The four productions are now fairly old (the last was released in 1991) whilst productions of The Magicians Nephew, The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle were never attempted. The dramatisation of The Silver Chair had an air of finality about it and although the BBC said they considered filming The Last Battle a question mark remains over how serious they were.
With the announcement that The
Silver Chair was to be the final production there was a public outcry
of disappointment from parents (probably prompted by children enchanted
by the series). The BBC went on record as saying that a production of The
Last Battle would have been too complicated to make. This is perhaps
a referal to transforming a talking donkey (Puzzle) and ape (Shift) from
the page to screen. Rumours abound, however, that the real reason for the
BBC not producing The Last Battle was that it was too Christian
in content.
In the years since The Silver Chair was televised there has been on going talk of the BBC changing their minds over producing The Last Battle. With the subsequent lack of hard evidence these rumours seem to be unfounded. Anyhow without radical recasting such a venture could not go ahead. Michael Aldridge (Professor Kirke in LWW) died in 1994 whilst the child actors: Richard Dempsey (Peter Pevensie); Sophie Cook (Susan Pevensie) Jonathan Scott (Edmund Pevensie); Sophie Wilcox (Lucy Pevensie); David Thwaites (Eustace Scrubb); Camilla Power (Jill Pole) have all grown up to the extent that they could not adequately pass for the ages of the characters in the book.
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