My take on it is that the Silver Chair is probably still going forward. Since it includes films and series, it makes sense to begin with the film that is already in production and then jump off from there. Maybe a series would then play off of what is successful from SC and include Puddleglum and the reign of Rillian... or they could go back to the golden age and set up a Horse and His Boy film. So much is possible.

I’m still apprehensive, though I read somewhere (maybe NarniaWeb?) that it could be that Netflix will have a hand in funding and producing, which could mean that, so far as budget goes, could mean good things. We shall see....

Just as a point of discussion, if you were to pitch a Narnia project to Netflix other than a specific book, what would that look like?

The Dark Age.
There so much time to play with and I’ve always wanted to know what happened between the end of LWW and the beginning of PC anyway. We don’t really know much of what happened, apart from the Telmarine Invasion and the rules of Ram in Archenland and Rabadash in Calormen, so tons of exploring room. What were international relations like? How did Narnia deal with the disappearance of the Four? Who took over and in what capacity? What about this time made it “the Dark Age”? How quickly (or not) did Cor and Aravis adjust to Archenland? What challenges did they face? How did the proposal go down? 😉 What kind of policies did Rabadash have? How did his court respond to them?
This would give producers all sorts of space to work with the world of Narnia while risking less potential damage to canon characters as the number of available canon characters for this period are few. (The only drawback is that it’s be harder to gain audience interest without canon characters and they’d also run the chance of making something that ends up being criticized for not being Narnian enough.)

Intriguing! I could see this following a HHB movie or mini series so that you are already familiar with the Archenland characters and the layout of the world in general. There could be some threat still from Rabadash even though he's stuck in Tashbaan.

Most of what happens in Narnia then would be complete invention which would certainly be risky! But sometimes risks pay off 🙂

Ariel, you're right, the Dark Age would be very interesting politically.

I would pitch an episode about the downfall of Charn, a prequel to LWW which tells of Narnians who fought Jadis when she took over Narnia, an episode about the kidnapping of Shasta and why the Calormene rescues him, Peter fighting the giants in HHB, a story about the women of Bism who don't know where all the male earthmen have been taken to, and maybe a story about some of the champions who went to look for Rilian and the hard choice Caspian made to outlaw searching for Rilian.

These would ideally build up the excitement for the actual book adaptions.

Of those, the ones about Cor’s kidnapping and the search for Rilian are what spark my interest most!

My opinion the Narnia made Netflix series will never happen 🙁 They just bought it to prevent anyone else getting it. The movies are still on Disney plus what is more. They have shown zero interest in Narnia since they named someone to oversee the general making of all things Narnia. They probably will re buy the contract for the same reason and we will never see all books adapted to movies. Some might be glad about that but I am not 😡

The Walden films are rightfully on Disney+ because Disney owns the rights to its own work. The Netflix contract affects that not at all one way or another.
Supposedly they’re still quietly working on Narnia. So they say. But I’m of the mind of “until they make some real announcements, I’m not holding my breath”.
As for never seeing Netflix Narnia happen ever… I’ve been skeptical from the start, and after hearing of what both Amazon and Netflix have been producing, I’m all the more worried about Narnia. So I’m not holding my breath on that count either.

Now it raises the question will Netflix ever adapt Narnia? The news has been announced back in 2018 yet there has been no new news. Plus, Netflix has changed so much between now and then.

If Netflix decides to drop Narnia, another company could pick it up eventually. One route would be an episodic TV Series. If I could propose a channel, it would PBS (now it might be a different station depending on where you’re at). I know that most of their shows or movies are historical and mysteries but what a Narnia adaption could benefit from PBS that it would focus more on the drama than on the action.

Jasmine sorry to disappoint but Netflix bought with an eternal contract which means that unless they sell nothing is going to be made. 🙁

KoN, I didn't realize Netflix bought it without a rights reversion clause. What about when the copyright expires globally? Or will Netflix still own the rights to the words Narnia and Aslan which are trademarked?

Hermit of Northen March if I understood right it is the movie/series that Netflix bought for a limitless time. The books as far as I know are still in the book copyright and will remain so till the international copyright expires. But I'm no lawyer so maybe Netflix rights to the movie/serie would also expire (in which case anyone including you or me could make something and call it Narnia)