I enjoy flashbacks and I find they're very rarely corny. Maybe I've just seen very different movies/tv series to you?

^^ I think Magician's Nephew must a bit connected to the LWW. And if the ending will be like Lucy opening the wardrobe as someone suggested here and I do agree with that just like with the movie I saw before. The third movie became connected to the first movie where everything had begun. So I guess they must really connect this book to the first book. And besides I haven't read the book yet so maybe I will hang my comment in just simple as that...After all, every books that has sequel must be connected to each other..

I enjoy flashbacks and I find they're very rarely corny. Maybe I've just seen very different movies/tv series to you?

I've seen a few, but I never really find them corny either... as long as the guy doesn't narrate for the entire movie (that works in old detective films, and some sci-fi, but not in a fantasy franchise that's already established...without narration.)

As I said before, I'd still like to see something like Balto, where most of the movie is a flashback, but the naration is only at the beginning and end.

^I think that they will simply vanish, or maybe turn to dust. I imagine we'll get some sort of shock wave that will destroy all life in it's path. Speaking of which, do you think we will hear the deplorable word? I don't exactly want to, but how are they going to get around it, by bleeping it?

The MN is my favourite book (and def the most read narnia book at my house). I always pictured the movie adaption of Jadis saying the deplorable word would go something like this....
there is a big lead up to it. Then it goes silent and there is just a pulse sound of a beat in the background and you just see her mouth the word (her actually saying a word might be cheesy because it is supposed to be epic and it could just fall flat). Then things kinda slow down and the camera would zoom away from her and a shock wave would be emitted from the building that she was in and all living things would turn to dust. And then all the people in the great hall would freeze into wax figures.

^I think those were old wax figures, Jadis was the only one who wasn't, she just made herself like one until Digory and Polly came.

Let me throw my 2 cents in here. I'd love to see the MN and the Last Battle made as one movie. Have a film that bookends the Beginning and End of Narnia. You could leave out most of the "Jadis's day out in London" story, and have a good narrative thread with Digory as your main character, seeing Narnia's first and last days.

Yes, they certainly would have to get permission. The "Estate" of the books is handled by the C.S.Lewis Co, headed by Mr Gresham who is Lewis's step-son and a major production voice. [Believe me, he would not okay a cute kiddy romance set in late Victorian London just to please American teenage girls. ]

I dont understand. I've heard so much about the CS Lewis Estate being so harsh and not letting all these things pass. But then again, they let the green mist, white witch, dark island expansion, seven swords, plots in VDT slide....

Let me throw my 2 cents in here. I'd love to see the MN and the Last Battle made as one movie. Have a film that bookends the Beginning and End of Narnia. You could leave out most of the "Jadis's day out in London" story, and have a good narrative thread with Digory as your main character, seeing Narnia's first and last days.

No you couldn't leave out 'Jadis's Day out in London' and have an effective MN film. It was attempting to escape her in Charn, bringing her back to London and then trying to get her away from there which is how Polly and Digory got into Narnia in the first place. Plus the Cabbie, the horse and Jadis, herself. Because he brought Jadis into Narnia Digory had to get the apple from the garden. And the apple also mattered something, along with the rest of the story, because Digory was worried about his mother's dying. Rip Jadis' day out in London and you have destroyed any interpretation of the novel, plus one of the best bits.

That's one of the scenes I can remember most from MN ( I gave it to my cousin years ago and she never returned it). I therefore, haven't read the book in years.

Let me throw my 2 cents in here. I'd love to see the MN and the Last Battle made as one movie. Have a film that bookends the Beginning and End of Narnia. You could leave out most of the "Jadis's day out in London" story, and have a good narrative thread with Digory as your main character, seeing Narnia's first and last days.

I can't say that I love this idea.....but if it came down to it either being no MN or a combination of MN and LB then I would go for the latter choice.
I think it would have to be a near three hour film in order to give either story full go. But I think it would be very complicated and hard to do. It has a 95% chance of going horribly wrong.

This idea might work from the MN end, if you cut most of the story(which I'm not a fan of), but really, LB needs to be a stand alone movie. LB alone, and done right, could last 2 12hrs. I think you'd be missing ctritical and beloved parts of both if they're combined. That'd be worse then them not being made at all.

The hardest part about adapting The Magician's Nephew is that the climax is different than most films. You would have your mid-point climax where Jadis tries to take over London, but don't have a major climax at the end of the story that ties into everything else that has happened.

One solution is to emphasize Digory's relationship with his mother. That way people would be more unsure how Digory would respond to the witch in the garden.

They also may put more of an emphasis on the witch's desire for power, to be a ruler of something or some place. Perhaps the filmmakers could make it so that if Digory had taken the fruit, it would have meant the end of Narnia and maybe even some how the end of our world. If they could get that idea across, then the climax in the garden would be good enough.

One solution is to emphasizes Digory's relationship with his mother. That way people would be more unsure how Digory would respond to the witch in the garden.

I like that idea. It fits with the book, and would probably add a bit more tension in the climax.

I could see them making a 10 minute montage the capitalizes on the major points of The Magician's Nephew. (Sort of like what they did at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring.) Then you could end by talking about the tree of protection and what would later become known as lantern waste. Perhaps that would tie into the scene where lantern waste is getting destroyed.

Other than that, I don't really see what The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle have in common.

The Professor and Polly Plummer are in both, aren't they? Both end up as part of the Seven Friends of Narnia group.

I think though that Magician's nephew is most likely to be filmed next after Silver Chair. Apparently Douglas Gresham is rather keen on filming this particular book.

What is really needed to get this book connected with the preceding ones, is a way of re-introducing the Professor from LWW, before we can introduce Digory Kirke. Something like the Jill Pole name-drop at the end of VDT. That is where Peter Charn's original idea for this thread came in.

The trouble is, that by the end of Silver Chair, the only book possibly being introduced is the Horse and His Boy, which is mentioned a couple of times, leaving Eustace and Jill to ask, what were those songs and ballads about?