Interestingly the MTV article below mentions something I'd forgotten about - the upcoming Disneyfied version of CS Lewis' "The Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe," directed by the guy who brought us "Shrek."
So, being a fan of CS Lewis - and having raised my kids in Narnia, so to speak - I hit the Disney-blessed site. It probably comes as no shock to find that Narnia and Lewis have been thoroughly neutered in a religious sense. A man who loved the fairy tales from his Irish nurse sat down as a Cambridge professor and wrote the Narnia series to amuse the kids. No mention, of course, of what the man was REALLY famous for. If Lewis could read his own bio on the official movie site, he'd spew . . . of course unlike me, he'd spew riveting apologetics that would skewer the Disney project. In fact, I'm quite sure that Mr. Jack would thoroughly disapprove of the movie.
I will be curious how Disney deals with the Creation, the Fall, the Redemptive Death and Resurrection, Armageddon and just the day-to-day Christian theology woven tightly into the Narnia books. The BBC children's theater version of the Narnia books, by the way, get a thumbs-up for faithfulness to the word and spirit of Lewis' works.
Hit the movie's official site . . .
Compare a bio of Lewis on the CSLewis.com site . . .
Link to a description of the BBC version . . .
Interestingly, Movies.Com raises the possibility that Nicole Kidman will be playing the White Witch. She'll be the one sending Aslan the Great Lion to the Time Out Corner, since obviously a bloody altar sacrifice and resurrection won't be on the menu.
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