David Magee to write Screenplay for The Silver Chair

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair film update! The Mark Gordon Company and the C.S. Lewis Company have chosen David Magee to write THE SILVER CHAIR script–the next Narnia movie. David Magee is known in his screenplays for the films*Life of Pi and Finding Neverland. David Magee...

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Hmm. Finding Neverland is a terrific film, however, I've never read the book(s) it's based on. Opinions on that? Is Life of Pi based on a book too? I haven't watched that movie either, and have no desire to, so I don't know.
 
To anyone who HAS seen "Life of Pi": did it have a pantheistic "Everything is one" message? If a pantheist writes the script for "Silver Chair," I have another thing to worry about. Now I'm imagining Puddleglum's big stand-up-and-cheer moment being revised to suit New Agers. The Green Witch is doing her hypnotic thing, and when Puddleglum clears his own mind by hurting his own foot, what he tells the witch is: "I have realized that all of us are one, and my identity is disssolved into the universe!"-- and THAT is offered to us as the solution.
 
In response to that, Copper, I have this to say: Michael Apted, the director of Dawn Treader, actually directed a very preachy/very Christian film called Amazing Grace (2006), based on the true story of William Wilberforce. Apted is a public agnostic, but I didn't find any of that in that film. Now, while he didn't write the script, he *did* direct it, and he could have called for changes if he had wanted to. To me, Silver Chair has always had the least amount of Christian theology in it, though I'd have to read it again to be absolutely sure. People *can* write decent scripts for religions other than their own or their own beliefs. I think on that note, you should probably give him a chance.

Oh, and by the way: there is nothing to indicate that any of the writers on previous films were Christians or held with Christian theology. But LWW had the strongest and most evident of theology of the books made into movies so far. And it was adapted successfully without the story losing its spiritual impact.
 
This is so exciting! :D I'm glad that they're making this movie, even though I of course have some reservations.

The fact that this director made "Life of Pi" does not concern me. He did not write the book, and I have no reason to believe that he would both hold those beliefs and force them into another film.
 
I hope there will be enough of Christian message in the movie, but I don't really care what the writer actually beliefs, as long as he doesn't try to muddle it in the movie. However, I'm sure he won't.
 
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