#narnia adaption

[the-introverted-writer-for-life]

Ok guys I need to know

[banditop]

not to brag but my bf once said to me ''i hope the film adaptation of your favourites books will have an excellent cast, and doesn't miss out any major point in the plot, or nuances in development character ''

[lunaoblonsky]

[cassandraxiv]

Ok, rant because I just re-watched The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe for the first time in years, and with the knowledge of storywriting I've accumulated in the meantime, the movie really impresses me.

One thing that struck me was that I could see that the people who made the movie had read the other books in the Chronicles of Narnia series. The most obvious is professor Kirke's reaction (beautifully played by Jim Broadbent) to learning of the world inside the wardrobe. He doesn't react with curiosity, but with recognition. Because he knows where the wood for that wardrobe came from. Because he has been to that world. Because he witnessed the creation of that world.

There are other minor examples, like the fact that the Lamp Post only has one cross arm (the other was torn off by queen Jadis in The Magician's Nephew).

This is something that has hugely bothered me about several more recent adaptations of books that I love, such as Eragon or The Letter for the King, which were clearly made by people with little to no knowledge of other books in the series, and perhaps no expectation to further adapt the series. These two are the most egregious examples I can think of right now, as they are both adapted so poorly that their respective sequels are pretty much impossible to adapt as a result of plot points they have changed, characters they have left out, or characters they included but killed off even though they are extremely important to the sequels.

Rant over.

[radiantsouth]

they're right and they SHOULD say it

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this property do you prefer?:

[disneyboot]

[jisreal64]

So I have this idea for a unauthorized nonprofit web novel series that I want to write called “The Lost Continent”. It serves as both a fan-made adaptation of the theme park land of the same name at Universal’s Islands of Adventure Park in Florida, as well as a fanfic crossover between different media franchises, pieces of literature, and mythologies/religions. The series follows six children who discover that they are the saviors of a pocket dimension that features a parallel version of Earth with a mystical continent called “Antilia”, a which is home to various different lands and subcontinents such as Oz, Wonderland, Neverland, Middle Earth, Camelot, Narnia, Westeros, the Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule, the Hundred Acre Woods, Far Far Away (Shrek), Andalasia (Enchanted), etc. There they are trained by teenaged versions Alice Liddell, Dorothy Gale, and Peter Pan to become heroes and fight off evil. The only problem is that I don’t know what website I should write upload it on, I could upload it here, but I feel like sites like AO3, Deviantart, and Wattpad are more popular for stuff like this, if you guys want me to see more of this concept and/or have any suggestions on what websites I can use, then please let me know.

[thiinka]

Absolute travesty that the BBC never finished its Narnia adaptation

[fairmerthefarmer]

A thing I truly love about Narnia is how C.S. Lewis does his (semi lack of) world building with his writing.

There’s something about how he writes that makes these worlds feel very real despite the lack of details. He writes with just enough information for your mind to build it up and fill in the gaps. He’ll offhandedly mention a historic figure in this world and is like “and maybe we’ll revisit that sometime” and most of the time he doesn’t, which can be so fun if you’re a writer or artist yourself to explore and play with.

When fans wrote letters to him asking about the lore or more about what happened to their favourite characters he often just kind of encouraged them to come up with their own ideas and basically write Narnia fanfic.

(He also gave writing advice too to fans who asked)

So anyway that’s also a thing that applies to my excitement for Greta Gerwigs Narnia stuff coming up. A thing I try to do in general when adaptations come up for a thing that I love is to see it as “this is a separate thing, that I may vibe with or not” (this gets harder to apply normally the more you care about the thing being adapted, and specially if the adaptation gets super popular and is like, really bad or lazy, but it still saves my heart some grief)

And since Narnia is a world where so much of it relies on the readers imagination to fill in the blanks and such, it can be really easy to see every adaptation of it (stage, bbc, movies etc. honestly even fanart and fanfic especially) as that Creatives version of Narnia.

Like when you go to the first two movies it’s very clearly like “this is how Andrew adamson sees Narnia,” so with a Creative like Greta Gerwig I’m just super excited to see what her version is like.

[nothinggold13]

There’s valid “I don’t personally want Narflix” takes, and then there’s whatever this nonsense is. (@faithfire)

[opheliapenning]

Our past had crawled into the trees,

Into the seas and from the valleys.

It showed us what had been, what would be

And what would never cease being.

Ophelia Penning

[dylantagnan]

If Disney (or Netflix) is serious about remaking Narnia for modern audiences, I hope they get Gwendoline Christie to play the White Witch! I can’t imagine a more apt successor to Tilda Swinton than Gwen, who actually looks up to Tilda. They both have the same ethereal, regal air about them.

[idkaguyorsomething]

Why Greta Gerwig should adapt The Magician’s Nephew instead of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I had some thoughts. They are below the cut in list form

Something we Haven’t Been Shown Before- to put it bluntly, we already have a perfectly good adaptation of TLTWATW, and it’s probably as good and accurate an adaptation as you could ask for. There are a few minor details that got cut and added, but honestly, as far as book-to-movie adaptations go, it’s extremely faithful to the plot, themes, characters, the whole shebang of the original book. Even if you don’t count the live action movie, there’s still the animated movie, the BBC production, and several play adaptations out there. It’s had its time to shine and by adapting The Magician’s Nephew, we’d be getting something fresh from the franchise.

Equally Accessible Starting Point- while TLTWATW was the first Narnia book to be written and published, chronologically The Magician’s Nephew takes place before it, serving as both a prequel and standalone story so that newcomers to Narnia could get into the series with either book. C S Lewis himself said that it didn’t matter which one people chose to start with, so it would serve as a great entry point for anyone looking to get into the Chronicles of Narnia as well as provide an interesting prequel for people familiar with the movies that already came out, leading me to my next point:

Worldbuilding- this book has so much cool stuff you guys. The pool world, Charn, the apple grove, the rings, Frank. ¡Actual literal worldbuilding! Also Sherlock Holmes and Atlantis for some reason. There’s just a lot of really interesting concepts and locations in this story that have the potential to be a true spectacle while also serving as a rewarding expansion of the universe that Narnia fans know that newcomers will still be able to appreciate.

Our Heroes- Digory and Polly are incredibly adorable and likable protagonists. They feel a good deal more fleshed out and realistic than the Pevensie kids in the books, and even though the movies went out of their way to give them some more depths, our dynamic duo from The Magician’s Nephew still feel quite distinctive in their own right. Their interpersonal conflict never grows as deep as something like, say, Edmund’s betrayal, but they both have different perspectives and things they bring to the table as individuals while also having a very fun, genuine friendship. Bonus points for being a rare boy/girl relationship that is never so much as hinted to be anything beyond platonic.

The Villains- The Magician’s Nephew has a pretty perfect combination of antagonists who manage to be memorable and legitimately menacing as well as pathetic little meow meows. This book gives us Jadis’ backstory as well as her getting to wreak unhinged havoc in downtown 18XX London as well as Uncle Andrew, a conspiracy theorist incel Redditor before Reddit was ever a thing. They’re delightfully entertaining in completely different ways, and seeing them onscreen would be an absolute treat.

Thematic Resonance- lots of things that happen in this book carry a lot of similar motifs to other films that Greta Gerwig has worked on, and since she hasn’t really created any epic fantasy style films yet, they could provide a strong emotional core to center any experimentation she tries out in the genre. You’ve got Digory’s loving but complicated relationship with his mother due to her illness displacing them from home, the coming-of-age aspects as the children encounter various adult figures they feel powerless to oppose, and learning the consequences of one’s actions. It’s even mentioned in the book that Polly is working on a little writing project that she’s sensitive about, like Jo March. A lot of people have complained that they feel Greta Gerwig will neuter the story by toning down the religious elements (which there is A LOT to dissect about concerning how C S Lewis’ beliefs led to things like the Problem of Susan, but there just isn’t enough information about the actual movie out yet to draw any actual conclusions) yet I’d argue that these emotional arcs, which play into Gerwig’s strengths as a director, could easily hold up a movie on their own if handled well. Combine that with the potential for unique visuals, the book’s surprisingly good sense of humor, and the many concepts that could be brought onscreen in a truly unique way, and you’ve practically got a recipe for a great addition to the Chronicles of Narnia unlike anything the movie fans have gotten before.

Feel free to disagree about any of that, though. Hearing where other people think the netflix movies should pick up would be really interesting, so leave any thoughts on the subject in the notes if you want. I just wanna see Fledge the pony accidentally get yanked into another dimension.

[bisexualwintermoon]

the next narnia adaptation has to be animated bc ben barnes is quite literally The Only caspian the tenth Ever.