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I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films. I can't think of a worse company to do it. They destroy everything that they touch. And that was even before Michael Eisner took over. They made a complete mess of Kipling's great Jungle Book. They wrecked A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. They can be relied on to wreck the Narnia books.

I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films. I can't think of a worse company to do it.

You're right. They'll make it into a plain old adventure story and miss all the deeper meaning. Then they're try to give it a backbone by inserting a subplot all about tolerance, diversity and affirmative action.

I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films. I can't think of a worse company to do it.

You're right. They'll make it into a plain old adventure story and miss all the deeper meaning. Then they'll try to give it a backbone by inserting a subplot all about tolerance, diversity and affirmative action.

I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films. I can't think of a worse company to do it.

The B.B.C. did some of them a few years ago, they were very well done, with much of the Christian imagery being carried through (which I doubt will happen with Disney). For example, Amazon.co.uk has the D.V.D. of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009PBEP/qid=1079466548/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/026-9908767-9137225

I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I think Disney is going to do this up right. Several reasons:

1. The rights to CS Lewis' writings belong to a Christian entrepeneur.
2. Disney is in transition. Eisner, if he is allowed to stick around, knows he needs to change his approach. The making of a religious movie would silence a lot of his religious critics. This is the perfect material to do this with.
3. The timing of this announcement was prompted by the success of a religious project. The religious imagery HAS to be retained.
4. The LWW CAN be made such that the religious overtones can be retained for religious people to see, while non-religious-types can see something else (the LOTR series was able to do this quite well).
5. The core Disney customer is STILL the family looking for wholesome entertainment - despite Eisner's bungling that has driven many of them away. There is a huge set of unsatisfied Disney customers out there - the "Passion" must have shown him that they are absolutely starved for something substantial, not the teen-centered pap that we've been force-fed.

"I'm very sorry to hear that Walt Disney is planning to do the Narnia films."

I am too! You know that Peter Jackson stated after his Lord of the Rings trilogy that he was "keen" on doing the Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia as well...that he had always wanted to do it as he did the L.O.T.R.

I think Jackson making The Chronicles of Narnia would have been of the quality of L.O.T.R. observing his perfectionism of L.O.T.R.. Probably why Disney wanted to get there first. Although, you know Disney will not come close to what Peter Jackson would have done with it.

I am in complete agreement. What to speak of the large contingent of homosexuals in Disney, and the fact that much of the film establishment are either atheists or non-believers of one sort or another. The few Disney animated movies I've been unable to avoid in the last several years all seem to have transvestites in them.

They cartoonize great children's books and smear them with smarm.