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Netflix is trying to revive Narnia

Bragr

Bragr

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This was rumored years ago but never came to be. Now Netflix's Narnia push is coming back. They are trying to get Greta Gerwig to make it (Lady Bird, Little Women).

I tried to read the book, I got about 100 pages in, I thought it was ridiculous. Never quite saw the appeal of this franchise.

And now Netflix is gonna try to make it their own House of the Dragon/Lord of the Rings.

"Producer Mark Gordon said this collaboration has “the capacity to translate the Narnia universe into both stellar feature-length and episodic programming.”

https://www.narniaweb.com/netflixs-narnia-what-we-know/

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Kimahri

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I'm not sure the "their own house of the dragon" remark hits the target, mate.

That Netflix is making Narnia has been known for several years, and Narnia is a treasured property around the world. I fell in love with it watching the BBC version during the 80s. Then read the books.

This, if ataying true to the books will be fantasy for children. The LotR comparison isn't way off the mark concidering Tolkien and Lewis were friends, but still very different.

Let's hope they do it justice and refrain from turning it into an action spectacle.
 
Mr Hyde

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Please don't. The Hollywood movies were mediocre at best and I don't see Netflix top even that. Let the novels rest in peace.
 
Tams

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gaming_again said:
Lol at the godless Netflix even going anywhere near Narnia.

It does not belong to the secular world.
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Lol. My mother had no time for religion and it was allowed in our house. When having it read to me and reading it as a child, I never made any connections to Christianity at all, it was just a decent fantasy story.

I did try reading when I was older; couldn't get far knowing all the religious connotations in it and it wasn't as good as I remembered anyway. One best left for the rose-tinted glasses.
 
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gaming_again

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Tams said:
Lol. My mother had no time for religion and it was allowed in our house. When having it read to me and reading it as a child, I never made any connections to Christianity at all, it was just a decent story fantasy story.

I did try reading when I was older; couldn't get far knowing all the religious connotations in it and it wasn't as good as I remembered anyway. One best left for the rose-tinted glasses.
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That’s fair. I’m not religious either and I like it. But I respect its religious intent and I believe that is what gives it its depth.

Whereas Netflix has demonstrated over and over again that it has no respect for anything other than the current du jour.
 
Kadve

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The Cockatrice said:
Will the lion be trans?
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Trans Jesus? Sure there is some Christian sect out there promoting that too.

Anyway. The Narnia books might be bellowed classics but i don't think the setting would be very series friendly. The world only really existed as a vehicle for the stories and by their very nature, modern series just don't operate like that. Making a lord of the rings style extended universe would be missing the point.

Not to mention that they had this "anything goes" mentality regarding the setting that also don't translate well to serials.
 
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kruis

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Netflix and Narnia... I bet the protagonists in the new tv series will now come from a non white amily, one of those kids will be gay, the true hero of the story will be a girl, the boys will all be incompetent fools and world of Narnia will be filled with magical creatures from all races. CS Lewis' religious symbolism will be removed entirely.
 
Cyberpunkd

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Tams said:
When having it read to me and reading it as a child, I never made any connections to Christianity at all, it was just a decent fantasy story.
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Same for me, I was shocked when I read people seeing Jesus in Aslan or something like this. For me it was just a simple children’s story.
 
OmegaSupreme

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kruis said:
Netflix and Narnia... I bet the protagonists in the new tv series will now come from a non white amily, one of those kids will be gay, the true hero of the story will be a girl, the boys will all be incompetent fools and world of Narnia will be filled with magical creatures from all races. CS Lewis' religious symbolism will be removed entirely.
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Bingo. I kind of can't wait to see the trainwreck.
 
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jason10mm

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Soooooo, after Amazons Ring of Power, Netflix be like...
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The way these studios, Netflix in particular, approach adaptations of classic western lit is just......why???

Why do Narnia, something so many folks love and have very specific impressions of? Go after the Space Trilogy or adapt alllllll the other fantasy epics out there that you can (more easily) "modernize".

This IP hunting to slap on to an almost completely different story just baffles me.
 
kruis

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OmegaSupreme said:
Bingo. I kind of can't wait to see the trainwreck.
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Heh, and I even forgot a few things Netflix is famous for ... The story will now take place in 2022 instead of the 1950ies - because otherwise a modern audience can't relate to the characters, the screen writers will hate the source material, producers and actors will mock fans of the books and finally the show will be canceled after one or two seasons because of "toxic Narnia fans" (and not because the show was a generic fantasy show, made on a shoestring budget and woke as hell).
 
Scotty W

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From wiki

In answering a letter with a question posed by a child in 1957, asking if the Narnia series could please be on television, C. S. Lewis wrote back: "They'd be no good on TV. Humanised beasts can't be presented to the eye without at once becoming either hideous or ridiculous. I wish the idiots who run the film world [would] realize that there are stories which are for the ear alone."[120][citation not found]
 
DKehoe

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Greta Gerwig is an odd choice. I guess maybe since she did a good job adapting Little Women? And it would be a shame for her to get tied down to a franchise like so many other directors are. Especially since she's already doing the Barbie film.
 
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BadBurger

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Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
- Given all of Netflix's other attempts to adapt books into long-form television, no confidence there

- For movies, it couldn't get much worse than the existing films. The best adjective to explain those films is "plain"
 
gaming_again

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Scotty W said:
From wiki

In answering a letter with a question posed by a child in 1957, asking if the Narnia series could please be on television, C. S. Lewis wrote back: "They'd be no good on TV. Humanised beasts can't be presented to the eye without at once becoming either hideous or ridiculous. I wish the idiots who run the film world [would] realize that there are stories which are for the ear alone."[120][citation not found]
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Little-known fact: the ‘C’ in ‘C.S Lewis’ stands for ‘Chad’.
 
Trogdor1123

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one of my favourite book series of all time but I don’t see most of them transferring to movies well outside of a few.

They also are not dark at all like got if that is what they are looking for. Even with all the sad stuff in it the idea is still positive in nature.

It is also a massive Christian allegory so Netflix should be careful where they take … liberties.
 
Pegasus Actual

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I watched one Ep of their LOTR show and then just went and started reading the LOTR trilogy instead. No ragrets.

If Netflix makes some Narnia I'm sure it'll be much the same. I can't even remember if I read all the books but I've read the first few a couple of times. Maybe it'd be time to finish the fight.

The movies they did 10-15 years go were okayish. Modern Netflix sensibilities and Narnia though?
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Fbh

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Pegasus Actual said:
I watched one Ep of their LOTR show and then just went and started reading the LOTR trilogy instead. No ragrets.
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LOTR was actually amazon though.
Netflix fantasy shows are equally badly written and woke, but the production values and VFX are 10 times worse.
 
Pegasus Actual

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Fbh said:
LOTR was actually amazon though.
Netflix fantasy shows are equally badly written and woke, but the production values and VFX are 10 times worse.
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Whoops, you're right of course... I guess I was thinking of "THEY" in uhh more broad uhh cultural terms.

I watched S1 of The Witcher, having read only a couple of chapters of the first book, and playing the first chapter or so of the first Witcher game. It wasn't great, but not totally awful for me. But hearing the reactions to S2 I never bothered.
 
Vestal

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Fbh said:
LOTR was actually amazon though.
Netflix fantasy shows are equally badly written and woke, but the production values and VFX are 10 times worse.
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Question..

What exactly is woke about The Witcher and The Last Kingdom?
 
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IDKFA

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Vestal said:
Question..

What exactly is woke about The Witcher and The Last Kingdom?
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Ouch. That's a bit harsh.

I know the historical accuracy of The Last Kingdom is questionable, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it fantasy.
 
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jason10mm

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IDKFA said:
Ouch. That's a bit harsh.

I know the historical accuracy of The Last Kingdom is questionable, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it fantasy.
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I'd say The Last Kingdom, if we are talking about the viking show, is fairly historically accurate in the broad strokes. But wasn't it originally somewhere else then got picked up by Netflix?

Now Vikings:Valhalla, even more so than the Vikings show it is based from, THAT is "Netflix" style fantasy.
 
kruis

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Azurro said:
Is the last kingdom that silly movie with the Indian guy in the European middle age? That was embarrassing.
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No, it's a tv series based on a series of books by Bernard Cromwell set in 9th century England and shows the conflicts between the Anglosaxons and the Vikings. I love the books and the tv show was pretty good. No diversity stunt casting at all which was refreshing.
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

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jason10mm said:
I'd say The Last Kingdom, if we are talking about the viking show, is fairly historically accurate in the broad strokes. But wasn't it originally somewhere else then got picked up by Netflix?

Now Vikings:Valhalla, even more so than the Vikings show it is based from, THAT is "Netflix" style fantasy.
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Yes, Last Kingdom was originally with BBC before it was picked up by Netflix. Like the books they're based on, the series really isn't that accurate, but because our sources of that period are limited it can get away with some creative license. People think the series went woke because they added in a random black character in season 5, I guess because the series was 100% white.

Vikings Valhalla is actually offensive. Fuck that show.
 
Tams

Tams

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Azurro said:
Is the last kingdom that silly movie with the Indian guy in the European middle age? That was embarrassing.
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No, that as The Green Knight.

Overrated, and the race-swapping rather insulting to British cultural heritage. A shame, as the legend is a promising film concept.
 
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