Disney is taking the lion by the mane when it comes to their Narnia franchise and planning to apply the Harry Potter formula to it. Cinematical caught Disney’s panel at Comic Con today, where they announced that starting with The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in 2008, they’ll be releasing one Narnia movie a year until they’ve made movies out of all seven of CS Lewis’s sort of Jesusy but not really books.

If Harry Potter can do it, I see no reason why they won’t be able to. Though I’m not sure what the rush is. With Harry Potter they were forced to do them as fast as possible before their child cast grows up. But only a few of the Narnia books contain the kids from the first movie. Once they get those out of the way, there’s really no hurry. But, with Harry Potter winding up, perhaps Disney is hoping audiences will simply jump over to their fantasy movies and re-adopt the same yearly movie going rhythm.

Actually, the really should just stop making them altogether after Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Though “Dawn Treader” is by far the best of the books, from there on the whole thing goes downhill and except for the prequel novel “The Magician’s Nephew” the rest really aren’t worth Hollywood’s time.