Lion, Witch & Wardrobe movie

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This comes from Worthy News:

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Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids'

By Chris Hastings and Charles Laurence in New York

(Filed: 06/03/2005)

Walt Disney is to promote its $100 million adaptation of C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of the Christ for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian support for the film.

Disney executives have organised private meetings with several church groups in America to emphasise the themes of Christian redemption and sacrifice contained in the film, which will open in December with an all-star cast.

They have also hired a public relations company to market the film directly to Christian groups to ensure that the powerful evangelical movement, which is particularly strong in America, is happy with the content.

The film, which stars the British actors Tilda Swinton, who will play the White Witch, and Brian Cox, who will provide the voice of Aslan the lion, will be the first in a series of Disney blockbusters inspired by the seven books in the Narnia series, whose author was known for his strong Christian beliefs.

Lewis made no secret of the fact that the epic children's stories were Christian allegories and that Aslan, whose death and resurrection is pivotal to the saga, was a Christ-like figure.

When it emerged in 2001 that Disney would be co-producing the film, there were fears that the studio and Andrew Adamson, the film's director, who made Shrek and Shrek 2, would produce a secular version of the book, which was first published in 1950.

Now, however, some fans of the Narnia novels, which have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide, say that Disney could be in danger of over-emphasising the religious elements of the stories.

Internet message boards set up by Lewis enthusiasts are cluttered with complaints by people worried about the likely content. Others have expressed concern that cinemas will be block-booked by Christians or that audiences will be targeted by evangelicals looking for converts.

Such protests have, however, gone largely ignored because harnessing the support of Christian groups is regarded by Hollywood as an important means of securing box-office success. . . .

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[Keith]

I'm aching to see this movie! I really enjoyed the whole Chronicles of Narnia series. Harry Potter has nothing on these books!

I just pray that, since it's Disney who is putting the movie out, it's not some diluted, watered down movie that doesn't follow the book and loses the meaning in C.S. Lewis's books.

[tillmother]

I also cannot wait to see the movie. I also enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia books.

[Imamom]

I got my son the C.S. Lewis series for christmas. First kid I've ever met to not enjoy it. What's up with that? Maybe when he see's previews for the movie he will let me resume reading them to him....not just to me.

[Keith]

I got my son the C.S. Lewis series for christmas.  First kid I've ever met to not enjoy it.  What's up with that?  Maybe when he see's previews for the movie he will let me resume reading them to him....not just to me.

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Imamom,

Another option is to go to your local library and get the Narnia Series (each book is seperate) on CD and let him LISTEN to the books. (Audio Books) They're put out by Focus on The Family Radio Theatre and are EXTREMELY well done with characters, sound effects, etc. (Not just a narrator reading the books.) It sounds exactly like a movie, you just have to watch it in your imagination! I've listened to them and am VERY impressed by them!