Walden Media

Now, obviously, the film isn't out yet, so we are not reacting to the film per se, but Tyler and I both, you know, we have both been Narnia fans for a very long time at this point.

We probably both have core traumatic memories of the Walden Media films that came out.

You know, it doesn't feel like that long ago, but has been, you know, a while at this point.

And following the news, and I don't know about you, Tyler, but like, The Magician's Nephew has been rumored as the next thing to get adapted, and it has been attached to a bunch of different directors, different production companies.

So this is kind of setting aside Narnia because we haven't seen the movie yet, right? I tend to think of myself as being someone who's really grumpy about inaccurate adaptations.

I hate the Prince Caspian film.

Not the old BBC one, but the Walden Media one.

I want to launch that thing into the sun.

All right, from Wikipedia, it goes like this.

Hoot is a 2006 American family comedy film based on Carl Hissen's novel of the same name, written and directed by Will Schreiner, produced by New Line Cinema and Walden Media.

The film stars Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn, and Robert Wagner.

Cool big names in there, Luke Wilson and Robert Wagner, and I know Brie Larson from a few horror movies that I've seen her in.

There's other movies like it, I thought, right?

Valid in the 2000s, the Walden Media versions were kid movies.

If you were a teenager or a young adult.

I want to see this one.

I mean, I don't know how much it shows up in Prince Caspian.

I believe the 2005 or the Walden Media movies, I guess those are both Disney ones, the one that she's in.

I think they do a concerted effort to give her a little bit more to do In terms of like...

Participating in battles...

I remember watching a video essay deconstructing kind of the trilogy, the original Narnia trilogy and the production of the films and how the existence of those movies was created in response to Universal's Harry Potter franchise.

It was funded by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, and their objective was to basically find these young kid actors, kind of build this generational fantasy adventure.

And I think just that inherent objective isn't bad by any means, but it's obviously not going to tap into...

The creative vision of C.S. Lewis and what he was doing with the Narnia franchise, I think it's very rare for a studio to find the right director who... is obsessed with the original source material, like a franchise like Lord of the Rings, where it's like, you know, what happened with that was lightning in a bottle.

And I don't know.

I, I, I had a, a, a strong opposition, uh, years ago to the Walden Media, uh, portrayals, movies.

And it wasn't because they weren't faithful to the book pr- primarily, where later on they got kinda weird and they had a love interest between, you know, the, a coup- it was just weird, between the kids.

But Aslan seemed way too small in those films.

Summit Entertainment handles it worldwide.

It's also helped produce by Walden Media, who goes on to produce a bunch of kids' movies and also Nuremberg.

It makes a decent chunk of money worldwide.

It makes $28.8 million worldwide.

We're now going through the BBC's.

We will get to the Walden Media movies soon enough.

And Greta Gerwig is being accommodating enough to produce new movies.

So, yeah, we've got a lot of material to cover.