In a couple of weeks, the world will be captivated by the blockbuster film release, “Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” – and will be logically curious about who wrote it, what inspired him, and what he was really like. […]
Author CS Lewis may have ended up writing the evergreen Narnia series of books at Oxford, he was born and bred in Belfast, and the city is set to celebrate its most famous novelist with a 10-day festival. […]
From HollywoodJesus.com: On December 9, Hallmark Channel will air the “docudrama” C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia. Normally, we don’t get too much into “talking up” programs or films, but this is one we heartily recommend. To say that we were pleasantly surprised when we screened an advance copy of this program would be a vast understatement. […]
A newly-revealed letter by author CS Lewis has shown he opposed the idea of a screen version of his Narnia books, now adapted for a major film.
Lewis said TV versions of the animals in his books would result in either “buffoonery or nightmare” and criticised Walt Disney for “vulgarity”. […]
C.S. Lewis, author of the classic children’s “Narnia” books which are about to make their big screen debut, was “absolutely opposed” to a live action version of his stories, a newly published letter shows. The letter, posted on the literary Web site Nthposition.com, revealed that he had strong feelings about how his book should be used. […]
He may have the image of a dour, cloistered Oxford don with little knowledge of ordinary struggles. But C.S. Lewis, who wrote of epic struggles between good and evil in the imaginary land of Narnia, actually had a humorous side, his stepson says. […]
IN ACCOUNTS OF 20TH-CENTURY LITERARY movements and happenings, the 1950s is often ignored. Yet this decade, viewed as a quiet time in English literature, birthed three of the greatest-ever series: Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy was completed, as was JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. And CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, seven volumes, topped them all. […]
Karen writes: The Public BroadCasting Company (PBS) has a weekly news program called The Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. This week, their feature story is on the upcoming CON: LWW film. […]
“It has been my ambition to make a really good film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the other books in the Chronicles of Narnia series for about 25 years, and by […]
Narnia goes back to its roots at the inaugural C.S. Lewis Festival, set for Belfast from Dec. 2 to 11 to tie in with the Irish premiere of the film ”The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” […]
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