Posted on 01/02/2010 9:34:09 PM PST by HokieMom
A year from now, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" will be released in a theater near you.
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In a recent interview posted on NarniaWeb.com, Douglas Gresham, stepson to C.S. Lewis and the man who's supposed to be holding the line on what his stepfather would have wanted, said he was "ambivalent" on changes made in "Voyage." But, he was presented with a choice of either accepting those changes or not having a film.
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"Narrow-minded in a faith way"? That's going to rev up Christians to see this movie.
Christian Web sites such as BullyPulpit.com have raised concerns about the filmmakers. For instance, executive producer Perry Moore is a gay activist and the author of "Hero," a 2007 book about the world's first gay teen superhero.
Now what if the executive producer of the gay-friendly film "Milk" had been a fundamentalist Christian? You'd hear plenty of questions about that.
Ted Baehr, publisher of Movie Guide and president of the Christian Film and TV Commission, read one of the earlier scripts for "The Lion, the Witch" and told me the movie would have veered in a bizarre direction had then-Disney President Dick Cook not "held the line."
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"He said it was drifting from its Christian vision," Mr. Baehr said. "It was not expressing the intent of C.S. Lewis nor the true story of the Dawn Treader."
The makers of the Narnia movies can't afford any more "drift" if they wish to keep their religious fan base happy. There's plenty of evangelical Christian filmmakers and producers out there. Why couldn't Disney and now Fox hire them?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Julia Duin makes several important points about Christian content and Hollywood non-believers. Fox should know better. Where's Roger Ailes?
Of course they don’t hire Christians. Sodomites have too much power in the industry for that to happen.
I see that Dave Arnold is writing the music for it. Expect a techo-classical fusion.
This book should need no reinterpreting. It is one of the best in the series. If they want this to be sucessful as it should be they’d better not disregard the fan base. Better to kill this series off before having the spirit ripped out of it. There is one critical part with Eustach that if it isn’t there the movie will be worthless.
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
Sounds like I may just skip the rest of these. I was horrified when they removed Harry Gregson-Williams as the composer.
Sounds like I may just skip the rest of these. I was horrified when they removed Harry Gregson-Williams as the composer.
Sounds like Douglas Grisham (WORMWOOD) bought into uncle SCREWTAPE’S deception.
He should have called their bluff and stuck to the book - they'd never ultimately walk away from the money they'd make on the movie. Instead, now they're going to Jar Jar Binks the thing - watch and see.
With the disappointing performance of Prince Caspian, I'm not sure that there was never walk away enthusiasm there.
Didn’t we hear these same complaints before each of the first two movies? Those turned out fine, so I’ll reserve judgement.
With a $420,000,000 gross, Prince Caspian was not the disaster it's often portrayed as.
Her column is so edited here but I’ll try and see if I can make her main points:
*The first movie in the series; “Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe” held more closely to Christian principles than did “Prince Caspian” and grossed $745 million as opposed to Caspian’s $420 which, to quote Julia Duin, “downplayed the film’s Christian message.”
*The director Michael Apted, “admitted to excising a lot of the religious connotations out of his 2007 film “Amazing Grace” and is calling the Christian perspective of Narnia “narrow minded” and is struggling with how to treat it.
*The executive producer, Perry Moore, is a homosexual activist. Julia Duin asks if couldn’t a single Christian producer be found in all of Hollywood who would be more sympathetic to C.S. Lewis’ point of writing “Chronicles” in the first place.
*Hollywood would have screamed bloody murder if Mel Gibson or Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia that produced “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof” had produced the story of Harvey Milk, the homosexual shot and killed in San Francisco. She takes issue with the double standard of the left in Hollywood.
I think that covers her main points and are worth making.
The movie will be in 3-D.
In FOX News, not FOX Entertainment, or FOX Studios.
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