Posted by: @lentenlands

Thanks. I will say that Production Weekly hides its information behind a paywall because it gets it straight from the casting/crewing grids that are sent out by talent agencies. 

Sites like Production List are essentially just guessing or pulling their information from publicly available sources, but PW only takes information that's sent out..

That is really interesting.

Do you you subscribe to PW yourself or do you know someone who works in the industry? It's ok if you can't say, I'm just curious, and was wondering how much confidence we ought to place in the fact that they relisted it when they did.

On the one hand, I absolutely don't believe that Matthew Aldrich will be retaining a producer credit on this... Perhaps there's a remote chance they will give him a low-level writing credit for legal reasons, but I can't see him getting a producer credit when he is no longer on the project.

However it's the title listing charge that makes me feel there is some deliberate direction at play here.

If they still don't know what book it is then why not leave it as "Untitled Chronicles of Narnia Project" like before? And if they do know what book it is, then why not put "Magician's Nephew" in the title block? (i.e. to match the story description they wrote below it)

Changing it to just "Narnia" though feels prompted and deliberate.... And it's the second or third time I've seen ithe title rendered that way in semi-official contexts... I just don't know if it actually means anything 

Any light you can shed on why the listing is written as it is, would therefore be hugely appreciated.

Could it be possible that they're calling the movie Narnia because it's combining the stories of two books into one movie? 

Or could it be that they're doing The Magician's Nephew, but they're scared that title won't ring any bells for mainstream audiences so they're calling it Narnia so everyone will know what it's about? 

@col-klink It could just be they are using "Narnia" as the umbrella title for the overall production, given that they will be doing two movies (not necessarily as one story, just as one administrative production) - and maybe its simply the case that "Narnia" is shorter than "The Chronicles of Narnia" for that purpose.

However, I must admit that ever since i started seeing it, i can't now un-see it, and its kind of piqued my curiosity in a way that probably isn't fully justified.... for example, its crossed my mind that we've heard Greta Gerwig speak occasionally about she relates to the joy and wonder of Narnia as a world, but very little about how she relates to characters like Lucy or Polly.

Perhaps that's just her not wanting to give the game away, but perhaps it shows where her focus is - on "Narnia" itself.

Or more-than-likely i'm just reading wayyyyy too much into it.