Potter Factor: Published a whole 47 years before anybody had heard of a certain lightning-scarred wizard, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe took its time coming out of the closet for a big screen adap.
When it eventually turned up, it did so to capitalise on Pottermania and was released a safe month away from Goblet of Fire. All sure-fire Potter piggy-backing ingredients were in place (kids, magic, creatures), ensuring this was a worldwide uber-hit.
If It Featured Harry Potter Characters: Lucy crawls through a wardrobe and discovers she's found her way into Hogwarts. She's chased around by mischevious poltergeist Peeves for a bit, before finding another wardrobe that takes her into Narnia. Whew.
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ChrisWootton
Feb 9th 2010, 12:31
So basically we can thank Harry Potter for supplying us with a decades worth of absolute s**te
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pimpernel
Feb 9th 2010, 16:26
I'd agree the sucess of Harry Potter encouraged studios to make these films, but with some of them, 'The Chronicles of Narnia' for example, it's more that Harry Potter was influenced by them (considering they came first). But that's just pedantic.
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bentgaga
Feb 9th 2010, 22:19
oh harry
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Hadouken76
Feb 10th 2010, 11:42
i would say the Narnia films were inspired by the LOTR trilogy, (new zealand, fantasy creatures, big battles)
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DontPanic
Feb 10th 2010, 18:54
Ahm... you had a couple of misses there. I'm not sure when the book of Eragon came out so it might aswell be inspiered by the four-eyes, but The Chronicles of Narnia is by a book that's way older than HP. Actually I can clearly remember that there was a British TV show on The Chronicles of Narnia that I watched in my childhood so... yeah.
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joshwinning
Feb 12th 2010, 18:59
@DontPanic, @pimpernel Agreed. The argument here is that while the Narnia books obviously pre-date Mr Potter by very almost half a century, the decision to commission the movie(s) was entirely based on Harry's box office success. Those bandwagons are pretty attractive, after all.
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AJAiken
Feb 13th 2010, 13:05
@joshwinning Walden Media, the production company behind Narnia, were in talks with the C. S. Lewis estate before "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" even came out. The deal was finalised in the aftermath, but as you would expect Walden had to deal with a whole host of other companies looking for something similar to LOTR and HP. The fact that those films were being made may have had something to do with Walden's original interest, but it was only after LOTR and HP were released that they became so incredibly successful.
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