To be totally honest LWW is the only one of the three movies that I love but I like VDT a whole lot more than PC.
What AA did in PC, as far as changes, could work for SC. Jill and Eustace opinion of each has to move from hating, to tolerating, to friends. Let me say this loud and clear: NOT ROMANTIC!!! Friends. It's also a very dark story, in my opinion a lot darker than Prince Caspian ever was, and AA was able to bring that to the table.
If we are going the route of MN then AA would also be a good choice just because it has the same child like wonder that LWW has and he has shown he can pull that off. I voted for Andrew because I think he can do an effective job.

Since we don't know for sure what book is next, this is what I'd choose.

Peter Jackson - MN & SC
Andrew Adamson - HHB & LB

I know HHB & LB is near impossible to be next but that's who I'd like to direct what will most likely be the last 2 films.

I like the idea of an Andrew Adamson interpretation of HHB. I think that would be right up his alley, and something he could get excited about.

I don't want Peter Jackson doing SC, though. He might try to superimpose the LotR formula onto it, and we all saw how that worked out. Narnia and LotR are not the same.

Mike Newell could do a good job giving SC the balanced, contrasted tone that it needs. He did an excellent job of that with GoF.

I voted for Andrew Adamson. His adaptations weren't perfect. But I liked them. I wish he would have stayed.

~Riella

After watching Thor, I'd love to see what Kenneth Branagh could do with a Narnia movie.

I want Andrew Adamson and only Andrew Adamson I just LOVED the way he did LWW and though PC wasn't perfect, there were basically on two things I didn't enjoy (Peter's arrogan behavior, and the attack on the castle happening after the Pevensies came), other than that I really enjoyed the movie and I think he is the only director I would be truly happy with directing Narnia

I voted somebody new. I would choose Spike Jonze, who you may know from Where the Wild Things Are. Yes, the book was only 16 some pages long with only like 9 sentences or so, but he caught the emotion of the book very well. Plus it was a very good movie I would recommend watching.

However, if The Silver Chair is announced to be next, I would like Apted back, believe it or not( I can just imagine some readers' faces going ). Since he is the one who wanted to tie the books together, he should explain how the mist did what it did, though I think most of us book fans know the answer already.

Spike Jonze is great but he's more naturalistic and dare I say it, very 'raw'. That style works for his projects but I'm not sure it's appropriate for Narnia. I also loved Where The Wild Things Are movie. The original book is actually around 40 pages long, not 16.

I would love to see Studio Ghibli's take on The Chronicles of Narnia. The books are popular in Japan, the studio is known for their character-focus, quality animation and love for imaginative storytelling. They show rather than tell and almost everything they do has the Midas Touch. The very real downside to having them to the rest of the movies is that less people seem to enjoy animation than live-action. Also, the team may struggle to convey the Christian truths within.

But this particular studio does convey many truths, nonethe less. This is the sort of animation everyone can enjoy. What I love about these movies is the lack of song and dance in them and the lack of the sort of smart aleck wisecracking that is in Madagascar, to cite an example. I find the way Studio Ghibli depicts the characters, and how they relate the story much more enjoyable than traditional animations, eg Snow White or Tangled. There are also strong anti war, anti greed messages of some of these movies. I'm sure, for example, that Hayao Miyazaki would do VDT complete justice, loving Caspian's Narrowhaven bluff.

The trouble is, does Studio Ghibli only do the works of Hayao Miyazaki, a Manga artist? Or does it also film the works of other authors? I loved Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, but I'm wondering what sort of twist Hayao Miyazaki would put on a Narnia adaptation. Would Narnia agree with his obvious ethics and beliefs, for example? Or would we have green mist galore?

Oh, absolutely, Wagga! You make some very good points. I believe God can work through Studio Ghibli and real his truths (their movies already do). Hayao Miyazaki enjoyed The Chronicles of Narnia, I'm not sure how much but that's a start. He's the epitome of a big kid and understands 'old school' values that the modern adaptations of Narnia missed or stumbled on.
Studio Ghibli have several different directors and writers, Hayao Miyazaki is just the best known of the lot (and he has at least some involvement in all their projects). His mentor, Isao Takahata did a few movies, and some other directors did one or two each. I've no doubt that if Studio Ghibli wanted to do the Narnia movies and they got the rights, they'd do a marvellous job that was true to the spirit of the books and the characters therein.

Thanks, W4J. But though I agree Hayao Miyazaki would be a good choice to do any Narnia series, I doubt that any of his works did all that well in the all-important American market. Howl's Moving Castle only earned about $4.7 million in America, whilst Spirited Away earned $10 mill. In both cases the foreign takings were excellent: $230,473,014 in the case of Howl's Moving castle, and $264,869,236 in the case of Spirited Away.

It seems that breaking into the American market could be just as hard for Japanese made films as is the case with Australian films. I rather suspect the same applies to directors as well. It isn't the quality of the movie, it seems. More that in America, which has a strong local film industry, they tend to support their own films at the expense of others. It appears that much depends on how a film is marketed by American distributors. Buena Vista, by the way, is the distributor for these films. Isn't Buena Vista a Disney subsidiary? The same organisation that ditched the Narnia series?

I would like to see Andrew Adamson do one more film in general, but not the next one - too soon - and Horse & His Boy ( my favourite book) would be a very exciting proposition with a budget of LW&W.

P.J. Hogan did a great Peter Pan film that kinda slipped under the radar, and is great working with the young actors. He would be good for Magician's Nephew or Silver Chair. And Jason Isaacs from his Peter Pan film, would be an amazing Uncle Andrew, as well as a lot of fun for the younger actors in the production. Jason Isaac's Uncle Andrew & Tilda Swinton's Jadis/White Witch combination would be both seriously iconic & over the top fun in the villainy stakes for MN.

The Wachowski's duo would do a great Silver Chair, although they might be a hard sell for other factors. Speed Racer is a fantastic film on many levels, and can be watched over and over. There are some small hints in Speed Racer, that the Wachowski's could create an out of the ball park all out fairy tale genre piece i think.

Night Shyamalan would do a great Silver Chair, but i would really rather he do Last Airbender 2 & 3, my favourite film & time at movies since PC came out, & at least an equal fantasy epic favourite of mine to PC.

I would be pretty confident that an Michael Apted in equal combination with Andrew Adamson would deliver an awesome Magician's Nephew also.

But who ever it is, they need to be a BIG fan of at least one of the films made to date, and to like the series of films thus far in general. They really need to watch the films over and over and over and over and over and over and over! So they get them and the layers of imagination that will be incorporated in their vision. They also need to spend 3-4 weeks just reading the chronicles of Narnia stories separately also. And lastly they should have a decent stake in the actual script.

I'm sure there are many other potential directors who could do great visions, the above are just some from what i know.