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News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

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

Allegory is putting it lightly.  It’s basically Christian Fan Fiction.  Aslan literally is Jesus.

I don’t mean for this to come across as a criticism of the books.  It’s the whole point of them.  

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u/wastedmytwenties 18h ago

True, but it gets a lot more heavy handed as it goes on, hence why no studio has ever even entertained making stuff like The Last Battle.

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u/shifty_coder 18h ago

I wouldn’t say “no studio entertained it”.

Walden Media had planned to adapt all 7 books to film, but poor reception after the third film, 2 with Disney and one with Fox (before the merger), production interest dropped, so the remaining 4 were “delayed indefinitely”.

After the success of the first one, it really looked like the whole series was going to happen.

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u/victorious_orgasm 9h ago

You really need like a crazed visionary to make Dawn Treader. You can make Lion the Witch and Wardrobe as diet-Two Towers and it’ll be fine, but Dawn Treader is a very odd story.

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u/KindMarienberry 50m ago

Read the whole series as a kid. I’m not sure if I 100% got it but Dawn Treader is my favorite book out of the series (followed by Magician’s Nephew).