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
The Chronicles of Narnia Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Horse and His Boy", were already complete, they were not released immediately at that time, but instead appeared (along with "The Silver Chair") one at a time in each of the subsequent years (1951–1954). The last two books ("The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle") were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins. The two issued both hardcover and paperback editions of the series during their tenure