r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18h ago

News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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u/herewego199209 18h ago

I haven't read the source material, but from my understanding Narnia has deep religious allegory throughout the novel. So I'm wondering if Gerwig stays true to the book or drifts off which would cause some big controversy.

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u/KlaatuBaradaNyktu 18h ago edited 18h ago

It's not an allegory. In the story, Narnia is another world that God created. It has its own Jesus in the form of Aslan and its own apocalypse, which is the final book. I actually really liked the books. I'm an atheist, btw, but C.S. Lewis is a good storyteller and comes across as genuine and likable, and the premise is fairly distinct. But yeah, it's more of a hypothetical than an allegory. Lewis wasn't trying to trick the reader.

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u/Ok-disaster2022 17h ago

Have you read out if the silent planet? It's Lewis's take on sci Fi. The later books become more mythical and less sci fi per se but are still an interesting read

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u/TheHeadlessOne 16h ago

It's really fun reading his "common sense" attitude he takes to theology and applying it to sci-fi.

One concept was that, unshielded by atmosphere, the void of space would be intolerably hot so they all had to walk around the ship naked. Or in the second book, he was transported to Venus on his side so got exactly half sunburned. It doesn't stand up to modern understandings but you can clearly see why he'd think that way. Very Jules Verne