C.S. Lewis was renowned during his lifetime as a scholar, literary critic and perhaps the most influential Christian apologist of the 20th century, and he still is. He wrote a volume of “The Oxford History of English Literature” and was also the author of a science-fiction series (“Space Trilogy”) and “Till We Have Faces,” a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. […]
This December a new movie based on C.S. Lewis’s beloved children’s tale The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opens in theatres across North America. The first novel Lewis penned in his fantasy series The […]
This past week, beginning November 3, the doors were opened to Narnia and Middle-Earth. Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted a conference which featured Inklings scholars from around the world talking about a various range of subjects in relation to their works for two and a half magic filled days. The wardrobe door was opened on Wednesday by C.S. Lewis stepson and author, Mr. Douglas Gresham. […]
To coincide with the release by Disney of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – planned as the opening salvo in a money-spinning series of major features – Belfast City Council launches the first C.S. Lewis Festival on December 3. […]
Fans of all ages turned out Friday night (11/4) to meet Andrew Adamson, the director of Walt Disney Studios/Walden Media’s “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, at the Borders bookstore in Westwood, Ca. He spoke about his new film, signed autographs and dedicated the “World of Narnia” in store display of CS Lewis’ classic book. The film “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” opens nationwide December 9th. […]
At the beginning of 2001, Perry Moore embarked on a quest. Moore, an executive with an untested movie company called Walden Media, dispatched an impassioned letter to the chief executive of C.S. Lewis Co., seeking movie rights to the “Chronicles of Narnia” fantasy novels. […]
To help audiences understand C.S. Lewis, the celebrated 20th-century author behind Disney’s upcoming “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” movie — Ignatius Press offers six top author-experts on the author and his writings. […]
The family of CS Lewis will miss out on the lion’s share of the multi-million-pound royalties from films based on his Chronicles of Narnia. […]
At any given moment on any given day over the last 3 1/2 years, Andrew Adamson could have been fretting over fauns, goblins, unicorns, satyrs, ogres, sprites, centaurs and dryads. The director of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” might be found worrying about four actors so young the littlest member still sucks her thumb. Adamson may well have been occupied by a crew of up to 800 people, a budget of $180 million, and some 1,700 special effects shots. Or perhaps he was negotiating a story point with the C.S. Lewis estate, which was determined not to let Hollywood disfigure the author’s most famous book. […]
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