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C.S. Lewis

Licensing Narnia: A Look Inside the Plans

A few highlights from an article about the Licensing plans for the new Chronicles of Narnia films: “We will be very careful about how we embellish merchandise, whether toys, video games, or board games, and will work in conjunction with the C.S. Lewis Estate. The consumer products are an extension of the movie, but we will work to remain true to “The Chronicles of Narnia” original intent and content.” […]

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Narnia Games

Buena Vista Games to create Narnia for 2005

Buena Vista Games, Inc., the global interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company, today announced that it will publish video games based on the epic tale of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the best-selling story by C.S. Lewis and the forthcoming film by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(TM), PC and handheld consoles in fall 2005. […]

C.S. Lewis

City that inspired Narnia fantasy

With work under way on a film of CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, BBC News Online’s Greg McKevitt investigates the roots of its Belfast-born author and the Northern Ireland settings that fired his boyhood imagination. […]

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Narnia Film News

Adamson Hints at More Films after LWW

The latter project could evolve into a similarly big franchise, since it is based on one of C.S. Lewis’s seven Narnia chronicles. Unlike Jackson, who shot the three Rings films in one block, Adamson said he is focusing on one movie at a time. […]

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C.S. Lewis

Lewis and Freud: A Virtual Debate over God

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.” […]

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C.S. Lewis

Book: Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship Review

J. R. R. Tolkien enjoys renewed popularity these days, thanks to the power of Hollywood — the Oscar-nominated film version of his trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.”

But without another power — C. S. Lewis’ friendship — Tolkien might never have found the encouragement to finish his massive, complex fantasy of hobbits, orcs and elves. […]

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Interviews

Interview With Narnia Director Andrew Adamson

Walden Media has engaged highly acclaimed director Andrew Adamson, the visionary behind last year’s box office smash and Academy-Award winner “Shrek,” to helm the first live action feature film adaptation of “The Lion, the Witch […]