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Perry Moore, an author and the executive shaper of The Chronicles of Narnia flick franchise, has been institute dead. He was 39.Police unconcealed histrion Thursday morning in his New York City apartment, an NYPD spokesman tells TVGuide.com. A drive of death has not still been determined, as Moore's embody will participate an autopsy, but New York's Daily News cites sources who say histrion died of an apparent dose of OxyContin. His embody was institute by his partner, Hunter Hill, according to the paper.See other celebrities we've forfeited this year"We're in shock," his father, Bill Moore, told the Daily News, adding that they had uttered the period before. "He was in a great, enthusiastic mood. No one was expecting this."Moore, who worked at creation consort Walden Media, spent years trying to bonded the movie rights to the seven C.S. Lewis books in the Narnia program before getting the naif light in 2001. Three films have been released, earning more than $1.5 1000000000 at the box office. The franchise is the 16th highest-grossing flick program of all time. histrion also co-wrote and co-directed the 2008 Sissy Spacek flick Lake City with Hill. Get the rest of today's newsIn constituent to his flick work, histrion earned raves for his prototypal novel, Hero, about a gay teen superhero, which impact shelves in 2007. He had been employed on a supplement as of 2009.His ascendant said histrion had most recently been awaiting news on a new screenplay. "He was set to do whatever mighty good things," Bill histrion said. "Parents are not meant to bury their children."

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