There are thirteen directors in history whose films have grossed over $1 billion domestically. James Cameron and Michael Bay were able to do it in seven movies. Peter Jackson took eight.
Andrew Adamson, meanwhile, did it in three.
So after two "Shreks" and two "Narnias," who's gonna begrudge him a little well earned vacation?
"I want to do as much as I can from somewhere on a nice beach," he laughing, telling MTV that his involvement in the third Narnia, "Voyage of the Dawn Treader," will be largely scaled back. "I am a director, I know what it's like to have someone watching over your shoulder. I don't want to be that person to Michael Apted, and I'm really intrigued to see what he brings to the movie." Read more...
It's a question that we can't help but think would please the old theologian himself: Is C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" film series dead or isn't it? First, Disney announced in grand fashion that they would film all seven of Lewis's books, with a new one coming out each May. Then the rumors started to swirl like the White Witch: Disney wanted to concentrate elsewhere, they wouldn't commit to any Narnia films after "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," which would mean three films and no more. Producer Mark Johnson himself recently told a packed crowd at New York Comic-Con that "Treader" would, in fact, be the last voyage.
Cue the Great Aslan. No, better yet, cue one of his patented resurrections.
"There is a list," Johnson revealed to MTV News of a group of dream directors being eyed to bring the fourth Narnia book, "The Silver Chair," to the big-screen. "We have an eye on who might direct." Read more...
