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Apr 27, 2017 - 9:23 AM
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mastadge
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http://variety.com/2017/film/news/narnia-revival-silver-chair-director-joe-johnston-1202399920/
Joe Johnston hired to direct the fourth Chronicle of Narnia.
He's worked with many composers. Most commonly, alas, with James Horner, but also Mark Isham, Don Davis, JNH, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, Laurence Rosenthal. . .
Very curious whether they'll stick with David Arnold, return to HGW, or turn to a new composer for this one. My guess is the latter. Giacchino's done a lot of work for Disney properties, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him brought on board.
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Happy for Johnston, but would be happier if the studio used this money and made 10 normal movies that would actually have a chance of making a profit.
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Apr 27, 2017 - 10:42 AM
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Ado
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I really do not care about studio profits, and most of the highly profitable movies are garbage. I mean Fast and Furious whatever we are on now, terrifically successful at the box office, but what a brain drain cinematic dreck.
But yes, the Narnia movies have been success challenged. I thought that the last one Apted directed was decent, considering the limited budget he had. Prince Caspian was quite good, and it was somewhat successful, but they spent far too much to make it. These are in the Star Trek formula, if you spend more than about $80-100 million on them you probably will not make much of a profit.
Johnston is a pretty decent director, made one of the best Marvel in Captain America 1, and his Rocketeer is semi classic.
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Outside the box idea: Cliff Eidelman
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Haha oh Jesus, let's not go down this throw-out-a-no-longer-active-composer-who-sadly-has-no-chance-in-hell-of-landing-this-gig road again.
That said, I hope that the producers give ol' John Scott a ring.
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James Newton Howard or Danny Elfman sound like promising possibilities, given their involvement in recent live-action Disney fantasy films. (That is, if Narnia is Disney—is it?)
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(That is, if Narnia is Disney—is it?)
The first two were, but they dropped out before the third.
Gotcha. Then I guess the Disney part doesn't matter. JNH and Elfman are probably still fair candidates though.
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The first two were Disney.
The third was Fox.
The first three were Walden Media.
The fourth is none of the above (Sony & The Mark Gordon Company).
Apparently there will be no recurring cast, though I think it would be nice to keep Liam Neeson as Aslan for some familiarity. It would have been great if Will Poulter could have returned as Eustace, as he (and Reepicheep) were by far my favorite part of Dawn Treader, which otherwise was something of a disappointment (with its reduced budget and running time, and liberties taken with the original story to give it more of an arc, at odds with the book's more episodic nature.)
Man, it would be super great if John Scott or Cliff Eidelman were offered this, as unlikely as that is. (I think the only way the latter would have ended up with the assignment was if Ken Kwapis was somehow given the directing gig.)
But I think Joe Johnston is a really good choice. He can handle adventure and heart (The Rocketeer), as well as intimate character work (my favorite film of his, October Sky). Captain America: The First Avenger shows he does well in big budget franchises, handling special effects and such. I just hope he gets a good composer to match. I would be quite happy to have David Arnold return; since he has been less active lately it'd be a nice excuse for him to return to the biz outside of Sherlock.
I'd love to hear what James Newton Howard or George Fenton or (non-temp-tracked) Patrick Doyle could do for the franchise as well.
Yavar
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I would be quite happy to have David Arnold return; since he has been less active lately it'd be a nice excuse for him to return to the biz outside of Sherlock.
Yavar
Yes, that would be nice. I suspect David Arnold's involvement in the third one had entirely to do with Michael Apted directing, however—the two having previously worked together on The World Is Not Enough and Enough (and one would suspect the as-yet-developed The World Is Not  ).
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Source?
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I did read an interview recently where Jerry Goldsmith said, "What is a shame it is that I died nearly 15 years before this movie will come out. Joe Johnston's visual palate for THE SILVER CHAIR would have lent itself perfectly to my fantasy style, a mixture of LEGEND and the military strength of THE 13TH WARRIOR. A regret.". He then paid the bill at the Outback Steakhouse where the interview took place and left.
It could have been Jerry's greatest rejected score too.
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