Can Disney Mess Up Narnia?

[Japher]

Probably one of the first series of books to ever allow me to completely geek out. I loved them, but I am scared. Disney totally ruined "A Wrinkle in Time" and now this?

It's not like The Black Cauldron cartoonish crap where it doesn't really matter because the series (Chronicals of Prydain) is left in tact, but it seems to me that Disney wants to utterly destroy the whole series, or at least threaten to.

What do you think?

http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/index.html

Oh, and they are calling it "The Chronicals of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" for all you Star Wars haters.

[Kuciwalker]

Yes.

[Space05us]

This was already made into a movie, was it not? I remember watching it on VHS as a kid. I loved it.

edit: I watched a cartoon version

[Japher]

100-0

edit:doh!

[Japher]

This was already made into a movie, was it not? I remember watching it on VHS as a kid. I loved it.

I only remember a cartoon version.

[DanS]

I saw the trailer in front of SW3 and they don't give enough detail to get a sense of where they are going with it. I didn't get the tingling feeling at the back of my neck that I got while watching anything LotR related.

It seems like an impossible series to really screw up, but several versions in the past have been disappointing. I think there was a live action BBC (?) version which had limited believability, to be charitable.

Unfortunately, I don't really trust Disney to do a good job with this. What was the last Disney movie that was really amazing? In the meantime, they have put out a lot of pretty crappy stuff.

[Japher]

Unfortunately, I don't really trust Disney to do a good job with this. What was the last Disney movie that was really amazing?

Apart from Pixar?

Pirates of Caribbean?

[DanS]

Pixar isn't Disney.

Pirates of the Caribbean was amusing, but not really amazing. Narnia is golden material. A foundational series of books in Sci Fi/Fantasy. To be anything less than really amazing would be a disappointment. LotR was just amazing enough not to be incredibly disappointing.

[Pekka]

seen both movie and cartoon version .. liked it when I was a kid, liked it a lot. One of my favourite stories.

Yes, Disney will most likely not do enough justice to this.

[DanS]

And let me be the first to say that Tolkien is probably spinning in his grave that his best friend's novels are being made into movies by Disney.

[Japher]

I wonder if they'll leave all the religious undertones in it or not...

I need to reread those books, it's been some time.

Oh to be Prince Caspian.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Japher
I wonder if they'll leave all the religious undertones in it or not...

That's a really good question. It would seem hard to leave the christian references out or play them down. Unless you want to leave out the whole Aslan character and leave out the sacrifice part at the end.

[Kuciwalker]

They'd take a lot of flak if they left them in the last book, though

[Zkribbler]

Hollywood always has the potential of screwing up anything it touches.

Just take a look at what it did to the last "Planet of the Apes." Somewhere Charton Heston is screaming, "Get your paws off my movie, you damned stinkin' apes!'

[Dr Strangelove]

The question is not can they, but will they?