Following news that the fourth book in the beloved C.S. Lewis book series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, would be adapted to the big screen, the new project has found its scribe.
David Magee, best known for penning the Academy Award nominated screenplay Life of Pi, has been tapped to write the upcoming Narnia adventure.
“I have always loved The Chronicles of Narnia and I endlessly imagined myself finding my own passage into Narnia someday,” Magee said to Variety, through which the news was announced. “All these years later, I’m getting to fulfill that wish just a little bit by writing the film adaptation of The Silver Chair and could not be more excited about it.”
The first three Narnia films earned a combined $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office, yet have still found themselves shuffling between studios (Disney for the first two pictures, 20th Century Fox for the third). The next installment is currently being overseen by The Mark Gordon Company.
The Silver Chair follows Eustace Scrubb (played by Will Poulter in the previous film) on a new mission that takes him to Narnia’s caverns and the Underland below, where seductive evil grows restless.