Posted by: @narnian78

The IMAX CEO may not have even read the Narnia books, or maybe he forgot that there are only seven.  It may have been just a slip of the tongue.

100%. It would be like an interviewer asking me how many James Bond novels there are, or how many Wizard of Oz stories there are - I could probably make a stab in the right ballpark, but I wouldn't want anyone holding me to account if I wasn't spot on.

I would hope that he would take the time to read them and at least have a basic understanding of them.  I guess we can forgive people’s mistakes as long as they are corrected before any harm is done

Does he need to read them though?

He's not part of the production team, he doesn't work for the distributor (i.e. Netflix), he doesn't even work for the primary exhibitors (i.e. the theatre chains)... He's the CEO of a company that licenses it's camera, projector and screen technology for third party use.

He's so far removed from anything actually going on with this movie that I really don't think anyone needs to worry one way or the other.

@icarus 

I think he should read the Narnia books so that he knows something about the stories that the movies are based on. If he is the CEO of IMAX it would be better to have that knowledge than to be ignorant of the source for the movies.  The president of a company should know something about the films and their original stories since the investment is more than just money.

@coracle: So, in fact the 8th movie will be the Rock N Roll story?? Ah, it's also about Susan, who at this stage is in her later 20s, and becomes a rock n roll singer? She's got the nylons and lipstick already!

Oh dear! When we know from LWW she'd been in the WW2 evacuations, along with her two brothers and sister? By the time Susan was in her late 20's, roughly about 1959, she'd more likely to be married with children. What she most likely wouldn't be, is a Professor of Children's Literature, which is how Neil Gaiman portrayed Susan in his 2004 short story, the Problem of Susan. When the Susan in Voyage of the Dawn Treader, was supposed to be a high school dropout, being no good with academic work, I can't see how she could end up being a Professor of anything. 

@waggawerewolf27 We're going way off topic, but I''ll just mention that a friend online used to suggest that the character Jane in That Hideous Strength is quite similar to what Susan might have become. This needs its own thread.

Back to the eight-movie idea:

@coracle Seconding the idea of a Jane and Susan comparison thread. I've also heard the comparison of Orual and Pysche with Susan and Lucy and the idea that Lewis could have been playing with the idea of Susan's future in Till we Have Faces. 

But yes back to the point! It was an off hand comment because he isn't familiar enough with the books to know how many there are and nothing to be bothered about.