A new interview with Mark Johnson, who has been a producer on all three Narnia films, has been conducted by the folks at Aslan’s Country. He discusses the reasoning behind some of the changes in the storyline from the books to the movie, as well as many other questions surrounding the film. He also discusses the possibility of turning the rest of the books into films, which depends largely on how well we fans receive this one! Here’s the first question that Mark answers:
Removed at the request of Fox
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Probably contained some spoilers they didn’t want to get leaked out.
As near as I can see from comments elsewhere, the gist of it is that even more of the story has been gutted. Apparently all that icky “romance” that grown-ups like would have cut into the Gael story, which comments seem to agree is pretty hokey.