I think they should release them in publication order so SC should be next. I agree, in that, HaHB is more of a favorite for me then SC, but i still would rather them continue in publication order. Also SC is the last book in the trilogy of Caspian, so i think it should be next to polish off his story.

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I agree that HHB can be a great film and has the potential to be a big hit as well. It is my third favorite Narnia book, just after The Silver Chair.

Also SC is the last book in the trilogy of Caspian, so i think it should be next to polish off his story.

I also think for continuity's sake, SC will be made after VDT. And Will Poulter will continue to play Eustace and it would be better for him not to age too much more before SC is made.

My order for the remaining books would be SC-MN-HHB-LB. But having MN and HHB between SC and LB would mean the actors for Jill and Eustace would be a lot older for LB. A little dilemma there but the filmmakers will have to figure it out.

But I really do hope HHB gets made.

I think they should do Silver Chair. I find it hard to believe that most people like HHB best. In the circles I run in, that's the least favorite. I guess it all depends.

It doesn't matter which one is liked best. Will Poulter is too old for the filmmakers to wait another two years before working on Silver Chair. Horse and His Boy is one of my favorites, but good things come to those who wait!

No, SC absolutely has to be next. Otherwise, Will Poulter will get too old. That's pretty obvious, in my opinion.

The real question is which one they should make after SC. I'm really not sure. It will be very interesting to see which one they pick! MN would be my guess.

I agree that SC needs to be made next. I think that it would be good to make MN after that, and then HHB. If they did it in that order the P. kids would be at a good age for that movie.
you still might run into LB problems though, maybe that could make two of the movies at once, like they did with the last Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (just a side note, I don't like the last two Prates of the Caribbean movies )

I want them to do HaHB after SC and then continue with MN and LB. I think the original actors for the Pevensies are old enough now to be in HaHB, so i don't really think they need to wait longer. I also don't think they should go more then one film in a row without Pevensies, but then again they have always been my favorite characters.

I also dislike the idea of the three books that are in my bottom three (SC, VotDT, and MN) being in a row. I would rather them not hold out that long to get to LB or HaHB, so i want them to just keep with publication order all the way.

At the rate the films are being made, which isn't very fast, by the time they're done with SC the Pevensie actors are going to be adults and ready to make HHB. I would really like to see MN right before LB. That way, we'll see a cool sailing to the end of the world adventure story, then a rescue a lost prince story, then Prince and the Pauper meets Arabian Nights(that's how I always think of HHB), and then the back story, explaining what came before, and then the final, ultimate, last fight to the death story. Although doing HHB second to last would be a good taste for the family reunion type feel at the end of LB.

I think in a perfect world, they would make HHB last. That would allow the Pevensie actors to be the correct ages.

It would be so cool if the Pevensie actors were older in HHB than they are in LB (like in the book).

In this video, I take a close look at the ages in the book and the ages of the actors, and discuss possibilities for the filming order:

Obviously, after the movies are complete, I am going to watch them in publication order. No matter what order the movies are made in.

I wonder if they're even going to get that far (filming the LB movie), but having the actors ages story-wise correct would be awesome.

Actually I like the idea of HHB being next. It is not only a good adventure story, and my favourite of the series, but also the story, itself, is quoted in SC. Ideally I'd prefer that SC and HHB were filmed either back-to-back or simultaneously, since they are stories that are completely independent of each other, with the only character in common being Aslan, himself. But people here do mention Will Poulter, and whether he would be too old, and there is also the need to take the actress who plays Jill into account.

Perhaps the best idea, even if publication order is preferred, would be to film SC, HHB, then LB and MN last. My reasons?

1. No Pevensies at all in MN, whatever their ages.

2. No need for Jill or Eustace either, so ageing of these characters is no problem.

3. The only characters that are common to MN and the rest of the series are Aslan and the White Witch, so there should be a completely new cast.

4. Tilda Swinson has already said she is not interested in playing any more witches. Presumably whoever plays Jadis would have to be someone else.

5. Having seen LB, people may then be wondering how Narnia came to be, why MN was left to last, and thus be more anxious to see it. Did the understanding Professor Kirk say in LWW at any time that he, himself, had been in Narnia, how and with whom? Even if LB remains faithful to the story, the character of Polly Plummer/Aunt Polly would have to be played by two different actresses no matter what, and MN could still be set up as Polly's memory.

6. Horse and His Boy should precede LB, otherwise people would not understand the continuing conflict Narnia has with Calormen, and that the Tisrocs of Calormen lusted after Narnia well after Susan fled Prince Rabadash.

7. We already understand that Susan is a bit good-looking after having seen PC and VDT. Anna Popplewell is already quite old enough to play an adult Susan, and Skandar Keynes should be able to play an adult King Edmund. As the youngest Pevensie, Lucy doesn't have to be more than in her late teens for HHB, and Georgie Henley is already about 14. Peter isn't even in HHB.

8. I think that of all the books, if filming gets that far, it will be MN which will cause the most controversy. But it is also the one book in the series that can genuinely stand alone.

You made some very good points, waggawerewolf, however, I still think LB should be last. The title itself implies it is the last. There is something so final about even just hearing "The Last Battle." Two more points: without MN, in LB the presence of Aunt Polly would have to be explained, taking up screen time. And the rings would have to explained as well. Whereas if MN came before LB, everyone would know all that already. And I think the story arc flows better if you see the beginning before the end.

I agree about the finality of LB. That is a very good point. Your other arguments are not insurmountable.

When we first meet the Pevensies in LB (the book) it is through Tirian's eyes. He begs for help and then is drawn into a room where the seven people there are introduced by High King Peter as 'the Seven Friends of Narnia'. Ten minutes later, Eustace and Jill arrive and explain who the people in the room are, in particular, Professor Kirk and Aunt Polly, what the rings would be, and how they are necessary for the plan to get into Narnia.

Further explanations and introductions are given when Tirian passes through the Stable Door. Tirian is astonished that the seventh Friend of Narnia is not Susan, whom he expected, but rather Aunt Polly. It is Professor Kirk, whom we met before in LWW, who introduces her as his companion in his own adventure to Narnia, which up until then Tirian has only heard about. Tirian may have heard of her, but already both the rings and Aunt Polly have been explained in the get-together, when Jill and Eustace first met Tirian.

If you listen to Brian Sibley's BBC audiocassettes, you find it isn't any more difficult to film MN after LB than it is to film HHB after SC. Both MN and HHB are prequels to much of the series.

HHB is my second favorite book, but I'm sad to say I doubt they'll make it next, if they make it at all.

HHB is one of the lesser known books (to those who are unfamiliar with the series), and is very different from the others as well. Since it is totally Narnian, with characters unrelated to any of the previous books (excluding the few passages with Susan and Edmund), movie-goers are less likely to flock to it just because it's part of the series. I will say that this book would do far better as a movie than any other--there's plenty of action, so writers wouldn't have to do much there, thus keeping it closer to the book.

My best guess would be that whether or not they'll do SC will depend entirely on how well VDT does in the Box-Office...