Magee Sits Down To Write "The Silver Chair" Script

"Life Of Pi" screenwriter David Magee has been hired to pen the script for "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair,"  an adaptation of the next novel in author C. S. Lewis' seven book series says Screen.

Originally published as the fourth book, it is now often packaged as the sixth book in the series.

The film would follow on from 2005's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," 2008's "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" and 2010's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".

Set decades after "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" in Narnia (but only a few years in the real world)   Eustace Scrubb and his friend Jill Pole are brought to Narnia by Aslan to find the missing heir of a now elderly King Caspian. The missing Prince Rilian disappeared while on a quest to find the green serpent that killed his mother. Eustace and Jill set off to the giant-lands north of Narnia to find him, and encounter the Lady of the Green Kirtle and a young man who must be bound nightly to a magical Silver Chair.

In a statement, Magee says: "I have always loved The Chronicles Of Narnia and I endlessly imagined myself finding my own passage into Narnia someday. All these years later, I’m getting to fulfil that wish just a little bit by writing the film adaptation of The Silver Chair and could not be more excited about it."

Following the $745 million worldwide haul of the first film, the next two films underwhelmed at the box-office domestically. Yet both were still big hits internationally, and earned global totals of over $420 million each. The whole series has also performed extremely well on home video.

No word yet as to who might direct. Since so much time has passed between films, there's no word if they will keep with the original cast of kids: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell

Mark Gordon C.S. Lewis & Co  chief Douglas Gresham, stepson of series author Lewis and Vincent Sieber, will produce.