Personally, I'd rather see Adamson become the director than any other director out there. But, if we are not just picking from directors, instead just people who are necessarily are directors but would do a good job, I'd like to see a Narniawebber get the job.

Out of curiosity... Why Adamson? He did a decent Job with the first two films, but at the end of the day their direction is fairly vanilla. I love them to death, but I'm the first one to admit that it's largely because of my love for the books. As movies... They're pretty good, but they take no real risks and they don't have a particularly memorable style. I just don't view Andrew Adamson as a particularly great director. He's serviceable, but nothing more.

A bigger issue that I have with Adamson is that in an interview he once said, "I didn’t really think a lot about the religious aspect. I know C. S. Lewis never really intended it to be allegory, but he definitely wrote from a place of his own belief, and a lot of people get that from the book… People can interpret the movie the same way, they can apply their personal belief and interpret the movie the same way they interpret the book."

Statements like that lead me to believe that Adamson doesn't have enough respect for the books to truly do Narnia justice and that he isn't all that big a fan of them. It's doubtful that his version of the silver chair would be a VODT-level disaster, but it would still just be a perfunctory adaptation that lacks the emotional and thematic depth of the books. What Narnia REALLY needs is a Peter Jackson-esque auteur; Someone with a strong, discernible style and a slavish devotion to the source material. I'm NOT saying the films need to be LOTR-lite (which is basically what Adamson has tried to do...), I'm saying that whoever helms the project NEEDS to be a hard-core fan of the books who is utterly devoted to bringing them to the big screen. The LOTR movies were Jackson's baby from the get go. He is the one who initially convinced the studios to make the film at all, whereas Adamson strikes me as something of a mercenary director.

I want whoever makes the next Narnia film to be a full-bore fan of the books, have the guts to fight to keep the film's religious overtones intact (hopefully the producers will side with him...), keep a strong focus on character development, and take the franchise in a somewhat darker direction.

Out of curiosity... Why Adamson?... I just don't view Andrew Adamson as a particularly great director. He's serviceable, but nothing more.

"Better the devil you know"?

To be honest, a few years back I'd of scoffed at the choice of bringing back Andrew Adamson too, since as you say he is honestly not a "great" director, but with everything that's gone on since, and given the uncertainty of where we are now, i'd take Andrew Adamson as a safe pair of hands any day of the week.

If I were Mark Gordon i'd be on the phone to him straight away. Andrew's career sadly hasn't really gone anywhere since Narnia, so i'm sure he'd jump at the chance to come back.

Out of curiosity... Why Adamson?... I just don't view Andrew Adamson as a particularly great director. He's serviceable, but nothing more.

"Better the devil you know"?

To be honest, a few years back I'd of scoffed at the choice of bringing back Andrew Adamson too, since as you say he is honestly not a "great" director, but with everything that's gone on since, and given the uncertainty of where we are now, i'd take Andrew Adamson as a safe pair of hands any day of the week.

I'd feel a lot better about another Narnia movie if I knew Adamson was coming back to direct. His movies definitely had room for improvement, but I quite liked both of them and I thought they were (for the most part) worthy of the name "Narnia". Of course, it would be great if the Mark Gordon Company could find a director who understands the books even better and is an even better filmmaker than Adamson, but they could also find a terrible director. With Adamson as director I think we're guaranteed a good Narnia film, but a new director is a shot in the dark. Could be great, could be terrible, could be anything in between.

Another thought I had was Andrew Stanton, director of John Carter, WALL-E, and Finding Nemo. Although John Carter got lukewarm reviews (I haven't seen it yet), I thought his two Pixar movies were fantastic, and I know he wants another try at directing a live action film. Stanton is also a Christian, so he might be able to understand the themes of the book better.

EDIT: Now that I think of it Andrew Stanton will probably be busy with Finding Dory (2016). Oh, well. It doesn't look like Andrew Adamson will be too busy for the next few years.

I'd really like to see Brad Bird direct a Narnia film. He understands kids and he can do great drama. And he can do amazing action scenes. But alas he's probably too busy with tomorrowland