# Disney jumps ship from "Dawn Treader," Narnia in peril

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**Created:** [December 24, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-jumps-ship-from-dawn-treader-narnia-in-peril/478583 "2008-12-24T19:21:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-jumps-ship-from-dawn-treader-narnia-in-peril/478583/21 "2008-12-25T05:11:33Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> I’m tempted to ask, does that mean it wouldn’t work as well as a movie, or that it wouldn’t fit the standard Hollywood Movie Formula?

It wouldn’t make the tons of money it needs to keep the sequels rolling out if it doesn’t follow a certain standard formula. Though that doesn’t mean is has to be so rigidly adhere to it that it becomes _predictably formulaic_.

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