I hope they invest lots and lots and lots of their own money in it.
“Well if there was any remaining question this adaptation would be respectful of the work being adapted or worth watching, this should resolve that...”
Methinks that “underwhelming” will be a good guess.
The final clue will be a diverse cast - none of which come within two continents of the UK. No wait, that is pretty much the current UK. Never mind.
Well, a Lion beats a Cougar...
And the answer to that question is a big loud NO.
Meryl Streep, former pimp for Harvey Weinstein. This flick will suck balls.
When I see Gary Oldman in a movie, I see the character — I never see Gary Oldman.
When I see Meryl Streep in a movie, all I see is Meryl Streep.
At least she could be honest that she is mocking Christians.
Maybe Aslan will kill everybody in a fit of post-partum depression bringing down tha Narnian Patriarchy.
Meryl Streep is a great actress, but Aslan is MALE, so she’s not appropriate for the role!
And casting that Black African as Helen of Troy was inappropriate, too!
Pretty sure that C.S. Lewis would not approve... But he’s dead, so I guess he can’t do too much about it.
The character is a male lion... Not a female lion. Changing it is like saying f you to the man who wrote it.
Pretty sure that C.S. Lewis would not approve... But he’s dead, so I guess he can’t do too much about it.
The character is a male lion... Not a female lion. Changing it is like saying f you to the man who wrote it.
Liam Neeson is getting old and probably couldn’t stop them.
...it's Springtime for Hitler!
Woke garbage infiltrates her mind. That’s why.
The White Witch, maybe. Aslan, no.
So it is worse than casting a woke actress in a character written as a male lion.
Woke is gonna woke. They can’t help themselves. As if she couldn’t find a male actor with the same ablility to fulfill her stated attributes for the role.
I’d hold off on the assumptions. This ain’t like a Walden Media production - it’s closer to a rock opera. Maybe, given that some inspiration has come from David Bowie, we can expect it to be a bit more like Labyrinth than like Prince Caspian.
To be honest, while the Walden films were very close to the books and I totally approve of the Christian allegory being brought forward in them, the problem is that frankly those books just aren’t much fun. Two of those films were dull as ditchwater. That’s why Prince Caspian and Dawn Treader saw diminishing returns compared to Wardrobe. The next film in the Walden sequence would’ve been Silver Chair but it just seemed like too big a financial risk, and disputes with the Lewis estate resulted in the contract lapsing.
So there’s no point grousing that this isn’t a Walden Media production and it won’t have the same feel as the earlier films. Even in Lewis’ own hand, The Magician’s Nephew was intentionally different in tone.
From what I’ve seen, the new movie is RESPECTING Lewis by aiming for a completely different beat to the Walden films - and that’s a good thing. TMN never was part of the Pevensie family’s journey - and as far as we know, Diggory and Polly never returned to Narnia.
“The Magician’s Nephew” always was my favorite book precisely because it is so stand-alone. It is nice to see ANY studio taking a punt on it.
And why not. In it, Jadis is a far more interesting villain. She’s genocidal, for crying out loud, she ain’t just in the business of making it always winter but never Christmas - which I always thought was spectacularly lame having read TMN before TLTWATW.
Uncle Andrew is quite the ass in TMN - and somewhat irredeemably so. Which made him far more interesting than Edmund or Eustace, who were both redeemed WAY too easily.
There’s a whole thing about multiverses in TMN that was decades ahead of its time - the Wood Between The Worlds, needing different rings to navigate. Stay too long and you’ll never remember where you came from.
When I saw the infinite corridor (in quantum superposition) in “Dark Matter”, and the plot explained how you’ll lose yourself / never find your way home if you don’t have the drug to keep your mind intact, I immediately saw the parallels.
After destroying her own world with The Deplorable World, Jadis piggy-backs into ours and thinks she’ll easily be able to conquer it. Her assumption is rapidly undermined by her encounters with everyday British folk. That entire segment in the book is the funniest thing in the entire Narnia canon.
Uncle Andrew is an obsequious sleaze. Casting Daniel Craig to play him is an inspired choice.
There are some signs of some really neat in-jokes in the new film too. They’ve already released a shot of Jadis stood outside the a pub called The Eagle and Child. That happens to be the pub that became the meeting point of choice for the Inklings - the writers’ group that Lewis and Tolkien were both part of.
All of which means, I’m very relaxed about the casting choice. Aslan talks, sings and growls (because Andrew is too obtuse to understand talking animals). Liam Neeson might work for the talky bits, but actually they aren’t the best bits of Aslan in THIS story.
And let’s not forget, Glenn Close played a male pirate in Hook and literally nobody even twigged it was a woman, let alone realise it was her. (She’s the one who ended up in the Boo Box.)
Who’s to say Meryl Streep can’t make it work and hasn’t taken the job on for roughly the same reason Glenn Close did?
Libs just can’t help but deficate on everything. Anything beautiful, happy, kind, good, they just have to crap on it. They are demons.