C.S. Lewis Movies

Producer Ralph Winter (X-Men, Fantastic Four) is in talks with the C.S. Lewis estate about bringing The Screwtape Letters to the big screen.

Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of The Question of God, the series illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud, a life-long critic of religious belief, and C.S. Lewis, a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic, and perhaps this century’s most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason.

The film is based on two of Lewis’s autobiographical books, Surprised By Joy and A Grief Observed, and also deals with his lifelong struggle with his Christian beliefs.

PBS (check your local listing for channel and show times) will present the first half of a 2 hour series on “The Question of God: Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis” from 9 – 11, the next part of the series will be next wednseday from 9 -11 (Sept 22).

The second annual Petoskey Area C.S. Lewis Festival will be held in Northern Michigan this November (www.cslewisfestival.org).

During one late-night talk with H.V.V. Dyson and J.R.R. Tolkien, his devout friends argued that the previous myths of a god coming to Earth to save humanity were actually “signposts” pointing to the story of Jesus. The New Testament myth, they argued, was the one myth that was true.

Shortly after that discussion — during a motorcycle ride to a zoo — Lewis accepted Jesus as his Lord and savior and became perhaps England’s “most dejected and reluctant convert.”