Two, perhaps three, years ago, Joseph Sobran worte an article called "The Bowdlerization of CS Lewis." Basically, the publishers and trustees holding the rights to Lewis' works (the holders themselves neccesarily of the same Christian mind as Lewis himself) were going to cash in in the Tolkien craze and Tolkien's friendship with Lewis by relaunching the Chronicales of Narnia AND "stories inspired by Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
He then related that the strong possibility existed that the new stories would very likely be devoid of any Christian-allegory content while the original works themselves might undergo some pruning.
I welcome a movie (or series of) based on _Lewis'_ Narnia, but I have a sinking suspicion that the new movie slated for Christmas will be something along the lines of Jacksonian or Potter-esque action-adventure. We'll see!
Geez, I suck. That should be:
...(the holders themselves NOT neccesarily of the same Christian mind as Lewis himself)...
Well they're going to have to go through some pruning, that's just the nature of movies vs books, even short books if done completely faithfully would turn into incredibly long (and generally rather slow) movies. As for the allegorical content I hope they keep it, but we'll see.