The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader "Box Office Mojo" stated that "There certainly will be an audience for this picture, I just don't think it is going to restore the franchise to its former glory." He added that the film would be considered a relative success if it made anything close to "Prince Caspian"'s box office numbers, which would increase the likelihood of further Narnia films. Mark Johnson, the producer of the Narnia films, later remarked that "Prince Caspian" "had strayed from its core audience," referring to the Christian and family audience who catapulted "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" to the top at the
The Chronicles of Narnia Chronicles". It was a work that was " a great balm to the soul". Plato was an undeniable influence on Lewis’s writing of "The Chronicles". Most clearly, Digory explicitly invokes Plato's name at the end of "The Last Battle", to explain how the old version of Narnia is but a shadow of the newly revealed “true” Narnia. Plato’s influence is also apparent in "The Silver Chair" when the Queen of the Underland attempts to convince the protagonists that the surface world is not real. She echoes the logic of Plato’s Cave by comparing the sun to a nearby lamp, arguing