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Luke wrote:

Timon/Pumba fan wrote:As for the movie, I'm definetely interested in seeing it, but I kinda hoped would get Disney's 2nd PG-13 rating, just so teenagers don't say, "Oh this is PG, I don't want to see it, lets see a PG-13 one instead!":roll:

Any teenager who won't see a movie because it's rated PG deserves to miss out on great things.

Siren wrote:I've been pegging to see this movie since I saw the first making-of's on Yahoo Movies about 2 years ago!!!

I wish they'd considered making The Magician's Nephew a movie first. Although not written first, it does take place before all the other stories and it was one of the more interesting books in the series, as it played with the idea of a Multiverse and parallel universes.

I don't necessarily think this is a problem since Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was written first. I read the books under the old numbering system, with Magician's Nephew being the sixth book, and I thought it worked very well. I'm not necessarily a fan of the new numbering system, with MN being first, followed by LWW, etc.

However, my biggest concern (assuming that LWW is a hit and sequels are green-lit) is that Disney and Walden won't make all 7 books into films. The BBC did this, only making LWW, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Silver Chair. I was rather disappointed that the other three Narnia books weren't made, especially my favorite of the series: The Last Battle.

TM2-Megatron wrote: I can see why the BBC decided not to do "The Horse & His Boy", as it really doesn't have anything to do with the main story, or even the usual characters (outside of a few appearences by the 4 kids from the upcoming movie as adults, during thier rule of Narnia). Leaving out "The Final Battle", though, didn't make any sense to me, as it was one of the better books; kind of crucial to the story as well.

2099net wrote:Well, you don't know the BBC. I'll give you a clue. Epic battles vs BBC budget. Which wins?

Lewis disapproved of 'Narnia' films

A letter by C.S. Lewis has come to light in which in he stated that attempts to adapt his Narnia books for the screen would result in "buffoonery".

The correspondence, which has now been published on literary website Nthposition, was sent by Lewis to Lance Sieveking, who had produced a BBC radio version of Lewis' The Magician's Nephew.

Although the author approved of the radio adaptation, he declared that he was '"absolutely opposed" to live-action screen version. He wrote: "Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

"Cartoons (if only Disney did not combine so much vulgarity with his genius!) would be another matter."

Despite its creator's misgivings, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe enjoyed a BBC screen adaptation in 1988. The upcoming movie version will be released on December 9.

Luke wrote:What does that Lewis guy know anyway? He wrote books, not movies. Leave the movie-making and book-adapting to people who make their livings that way, C.S.!



Actually, that's an interesting find. Though I think if he were alive to see the advances made in anthropomorphic animal imagery, he wouldn't label it buffoonery. And the vulgarity resides at DreamWorks, C.S. Get with the program, dude.

yankees wrote:I have never read a C.S. Lewis book before but i hear he is a great writtter

Narnia looks fantastic and ill try and see it opening day

I started the first Narnia book its really good sofar

do u think the movie will kindof of do what lord of the rings 1 did and give background on the first book before the movie starts??

and are pirates of the carribbena 2 and Car Trailer gonna be in it??