The future of Narnia and other "Christian" movies

In a recent interview posted on NarniaWeb.com, Douglas Gresham, stepson to C.S. Lewis and the man who's supposed to be holding the line on what his stepfather would have wanted, said he was "ambivalent" on changes made in "Voyage." But, he was presented with a choice of either accepting those changes or not having a film.

And "Voyage" director Michael Apted, who has admitted to excising a lot of the religious connotations out of his 2007 film "Amazing Grace," sounds double-minded.

The Narnia films, he told Rhema FM, a New Zealand Christian radio station, "present a challenge, for me to put the material out there in an evenhanded and interesting way; and not to be, in a sense, narrow-minded about it, either narrow-minded in a faith way or narrow-minded in an agnostic way. I have to open my heart to what the stories are about."

"Narrow-minded in a faith way"? That's going to rev up Christians to see this movie.

Christian Web sites such as BullyPulpit.com have raised concerns about the filmmakers. For instance, executive producer Perry Moore is a gay activist and the author of "Hero," a 2007 book about the world's first gay teen superhero.

Now what if the executive producer of the gay-friendly film "Milk" had been a fundamentalist Christian? You'd hear plenty of questions about that.

- Excerpted from The Washington Times

Perhaps this quote from John LeCarre rings true: "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes." (src)