hey guys! it's time to talk about Narnia again. if you missed my first video, it was an even more in-depth exploration of how to adapt the Narnia series that you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwlshepwqo. What's the Narnia book you'd most like to see adapted? how would you bring the series to the screen?

There’s a significantly extended version of this video on my Patreon, if you wanna check it out: https://www.patreon.com/houstonproductions1

timecodes:
Greta Gerwig's Narnia - 00:10
which book to start with - 2:00
virtues of the previous Narnia movies - 4:20
The Magician's Nephew - 7:53
The Horse and His Boy - 8:20
The Silver Chair - 9:38
The Last Battle - 11:28
Susan's Story - 13:36
concluding thoughts on adaptations - 16:44

For a Susan solo story, I would have it follow adult Susan as she is dealing with the loss of her entire family, while simultaneously cutting to memories of her life as an adult during the golden age of Narnia. Slowly she would come to terms with her grief through recalling her life in Narnia. I think that would be cool.

Also The Horse and His Boy

Your idea to bring back the actors from the Walden Media films as adult Pevensies is a genius idea, even though the actor who played Edmund has retired from acting, I'm sure they can work something out

Would love the old actors to come back, don't know whether they would like to, but if they do it would be great to see.

im sure quite a few people would be upset with Gerwig if she were to write an original story for Susan, which is really sad - especially considering the quote you read at 15:31. it seems like CS Lewis encouraged others to write this story that he didn't feel equipped to write himself. im sure he would be Happy if Gerwig were to add to his world.

also, i think the storyline of Susan's adult life would work well in tandem with what the other rulers were doing. i know time in narnia and time in the real world work different, but it would also be cool to see Susan's standard adult life contrasted with the whimsical world of narnia.

Honestly, I think Susan losing faith in Narnia is one of the most realistic aspects of the books. Although I do agree that if they keep that part, they should change her motive from make up and stuff to something like the cruelty of the real world or something else we all struggle with as we grow up

honestly it’ll never happen; but Studio Ghibli would be perfect for Narnia

I would say that my favorite book is Magician’s Nephew. It has so much great history to it and the moment where Aslan uses a song to create Narnia is beautiful

Loved this video!! I think if I had to choose one more book to see adapted it would be Magicians Nephew. The creation story would be really cool to see. I would like to see it animated too.

The whole point of Susan abandoning Narnia is her wrestling with her faith and adopting more worldly things. That was always my interpretation of it. So by worldy I mean she's having this period in her life where she's not sure or not she truly believes in Narnia whether or not it truly happened and therefore ventures out into the world to continue on her life.

i actually really love the idea of teasing that “The Pevensies” will be back all throughout the franchise and finally bringing all of em together (except susan ofc) on the last battle. It kinda give us a breath of fresh air and at the same time the nostalgic feeling of the older films. Also by doing so, both adaptions by disney and netflix can be apreciated at the same level. Because let’s be real we all are pretty bias with the disney’s one

good to see you back!!! like you said in the livestream the rights issues might be tricky but we never expected to see Andrew Garfield back so anythings possible.

Further up and further in gets me every time. Man. I think Narnia adaptations can often be quite thorny to work, and I absolutely do not trust Netflix with something as complicated as The Last Battle or The Magician's Nephew, but I would love to see a faithful and funny The Horse and his Boy. It's a lovely book, without some of the tricky theological waters of the others, and I would enjoy a well done adaptation

This is exactly why I love this channel!!💖💖 all the points are clear, with no doubt I love all the ideas ESPECIALLY the one which suggests bringing back the old cast or maybe just a glimpse of them....cause yes they're fandom still does exist till now (2025)  and I'm 100% sure that reviving it will blow up the internet.
As for Will poulter playing Eustace, I still believe that Greta Gerwig can make it work somehow,
mostly because Saoirse was 23 when she played the character Christine who was 17 in the Lady bird but portraying Eustace a little older is wiser as it might help show his personality development more clearly...and obviously actor Will poulter can pull it off since he's a great actor (he was 17 when he played a 9 yr old Eustace)....but rumors of 2025 suggests that Jill and Eustace are gonna be played by two new young actors so idk.

Can you imagine the scene in horse and his boy, were all the Original four cast members show up…it would be insane

As someone who is not Christian and has zero connection to the Narnia books, yours and Captain Midnight’s videos about it have made me pretty excited for the possibility of this series

I recently became aware of Neil Gaiman's The Problem of Susan short story which is also in graphic novel form that attempts to tell her side of the story after losing her family in The Last Battle. I'm currently looking out for it as sounds like an intriguing read.

So what I think they should do is allow Greta Gerwig to do whatever art she wants with the franchise, and then fill in the blanks with other great filmmakers. If they’re films I hope they get a theatrical release- I hope Netflix don’t force Greta Gerwig to make a mini series or something. And bringing back the original movie actors is a good idea- as long as it’s not really nostalgic and is just a clever, subtle detail.

Me in 2027: Oh my god I’m so glad they’re bringing back Liam Neeson, Tilda Swindon and wood!

I’m a stickler to the books for Narnia but I would have no trouble with including Susan at the end of The Last Battle for a movie because I think cinematically it would be more emotionally satisfying.