Douglas Gresham’s dream for most of his life was to bring C.S. “Jack” Lewis’ classic tale of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” to the movie screen and in December it will come true.
Gresham, 60, is the stepson to the author of the classic story and recently co-produced the forthcoming “Chronicles of Narnia” based on Lewis’ books of the same subject. He spoke at North Central Michigan College Tuesday in a crowded cafeteria.
“It has been a great adventure,” he said.
But he asked, why do people like to read these books? His own answer: “My motivation is through the Narnia chronicles and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ they represented some qualities we lost.”
Those qualities were duty, honor, chivalry and courage. Qualities that Gresham said we threw away in the 20th Century and now in the 21st Century – “As civilization crumbles around us” – people want them back.
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