Is Disney getting nervous about Prince Caspian?

Jim Hill thinks so:

From what I’ve heard, studio suits seem to be cooling to the idea of producing movie versions of all seven of C.S. Lewis’s “Narnia” books. And unless “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” does truly huge box office once it’s released to theaters in May of this year … Disney & Walden Media (i.e. Mickey’s partner on the “Narnia” film series) will probably still go forward with production of the already-in-development “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” But after that … The Mouse would then mostly likely pull the plug on the rest of the proposed “Narnia” film series.

And were that to happen … That would then leave Walt Disney Pictures with a very big hole in its release schedule for 2011 and beyond. And given “Narnia” was initially supposed to have been this on-going franchise, with the Mouse once envisioning releasing a brand-new chapter in the “Chronicles” to theaters every May from 2008 through 2013 … Well, Mickey would love to be able to fill that hole with another film franchise.

Which explains some of the urgency that now surrounds the “John Carter” films. Should “Prince Caspian” stumble once it hits theaters this Spring, Disney may be looking for Pixar to begin its mission to “Mars” pretty damned quick. . . .

Hmmm, but what if WALL-E should “stumble” instead? Jim Hill has suggested recently that that film is making Disney nervous too, and that fim happens to be a Pixar flick directed by Andrew Stanton — just like John Carter of Mars would be. What if both films should “stumble”? What would Disney do then?