Sat, 06 Mar 2004

Mar 06, 2004, 21:29 [home/movies/narnia]
I Think I’m Going to Be Sick

Apparently Disney is jumping on the bandwagon again, with plans to film a Narnia series in the style of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

Does anyone else think this is a bad idea?

I’m thinking of all the Disney animations which perverted the original story. Afterall, the movie Alladin wasn’t really the story of Alladin. The same is true for, Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, Tarzan, to name a few off the top of my head. Disney’s got really good at adapting good stories; to “Disnifying,” if you will.

What if they do the same to Lewis’ work? Often suspected of holding an anti-Christian agenda, why are they even considering it? The Tales of Narnia are even more blatant spiritually-speaking than Lord of the Rings!

Suprise, suprise, it’s all about money. From here

Narnia could give a massive boost to Disney, which is gripped by board struggles, poorly performing stock price and a hostile takeover bid by cable firm Comcast. ‘It’s a very, very ambitious production and one we believe could be very important to the studio,’ said Disney studios chairman Dick Cook.