Lewis Company dropped back in October 2018. The news of Netflix teaming up with The C.S. How and when Netflix scored the Narnia franchise
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A fourth movie was planned but never materialized. (See Further Reading below.It later released another film that was distributed under Disney with the third movie being distributed by 20th Century Fox. The subject of Christianity in the novels has become the focal point of many books. Some Christians see the Chronicles as excellent tools for Christian evangelism. Lewis, implies that through these Christian aspects, Lewis becomes "a pawn in America's culture wars". Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. Some find them distasteful, while noting that they are easy to miss if you are not familiar with Christianity.
With the release of the 2005 Disney film there was renewed interest in the Christian parallels found in the books. the end of the world and the Last Judgement. The Silver Chair the continuing war with the powers of darkness The Last Battle the coming of the Antichrist (the Ape). The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" the spiritual life (especially in Reepicheep). The Horse and His Boy the calling and conversion of a heathen. Prince Caspian restoration of the true religion after corruption. The Lion etc the Crucifixion and Resurrection. The Magician's Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work. Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. In one of his last letters, written in March of 1961, Lewis writes: Īlthough Lewis did not consider them allegorical, and did not set out to incorporate Christian themes in Wardrobe, he was not hesitant to point them out after the fact. In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.
If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. As Lewis wrote in a letter to a Mrs Hook in December 1958: This indicates Lewis' view of Narnia as a fictional parallel universe. Lewis, an expert on the subject of allegory and the author of The Allegory of Love, maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". At first there wasn't anything Christian about them that element pushed itself in of its own accord. It all began with images a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I’d write for then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them.