The Chronicles of Narnia (film series) that they intended "The Magician's Nephew" to be next in the series, but stressed that it was not yet in development. In October 2011, Douglas Gresham stated that Walden Media's contract with the C. S. Lewis estate had expired, hinting that Walden Media's lapse in renegotiating their contract with the C. S. Lewis estate was due to internal conflicts between both companies about the direction of future films. On 1 October 2013, The C. S. Lewis Company announced a partnership with The Mark Gordon Company, and that "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" was officially in pre-production. , based
Mandrake the Magician a clever reference to the explosive's blast. Mandrake had a prominent role in "Magic Comics" and Big Little Books (published by Whitman) of the 1930s and 1940s. Dell Comics published a "Mandrake the Magician" issue in their "Four Color" comic book series with various main characters. The "Mandrake" issue was #752 and featured original stories by Stan Campell and written by Paul Newman. In 1966–67, King Comics published ten issues of a "Mandrake the Magician" comic book. Most of the stories were remakes of past newspaper strip stories and featured art by André LeBlanc, and others. "Mandrake" stories also ran