Month: October 2006

We’ve just posted the tenth edition of the NarniaFans Mailbag. We’ve answered ten letters this week, covering casting, battles, plays, and Christian symbolism.

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C.S. Lewis Societies are nothing new, but they are gaining in popularity. There is no doubt that the recent films based on properties of Tolkien and Lewis have helped to inspire more people to join these groups, or start new groups at colleges and universities across the country and around the world.

Here’s an editorial that columnist Joseph Ravitts sent to me a while back. I decided that now was as good a time as any to post it! Here, he delves into C.S. Lewis’ writing of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s criticisms of the works. MAJOR SPOILER WARNING, DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU’VE READ ALL OF THE CHRONICLES

Back when they were recording the soundtrack for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Amy Lee was writing a song for the film, that was to be played during the film’s credits. The song that she was writing wasn’t finished for the film, because it was said to be too dark for it.

Last Friday, IGN had the opportunity to interview producer/screenwriter David Goyer, where he spoke at length about the novel “Here, There Be Dragons.” The rights for the novel have been snapped up by Warner Brothers, pushing the book up the sales charts very quickly. For example, Amazon pre-sales ranked the book around 5,000. On September 29th, with word spreading of the movie news, “Dragons” was ranking at 644. As of this writing, it is sitting at 1,493.

Our tenth episode of NarniaFansCast for Sunday October 1, 2006. Please send any comments, questions, or concerns to (NFC AT narniafans dot com). This includes a wrap-up of the news, John Burkitt and Paul Martin discuss the news, and then cover our latest frontier…audio performance of works posted on our forum, The Dancing Lawn!

A little bird has told us that Douglas Gresham (stepson of C.S. Lewis, and Narnia co-producer) recently attended a series of Prince Caspian meetings in Los Angeles. Apparently Gresham is very excited about how the movie is developing, and expressed that he is especially happy that almost all of the original Narnia team is back for the second installment.