My daughter and I are almost done reading The lion the witch and the wardrobe. She asked if we could watch the movie when we were done. As a kid on PBS they played the BBC series that adapted the first 4 books. On a whim tonight I googled "lion witch wardrobe bbc" and someone has the whole series up on YouTube.



It's delightful in its late 80s bbc nostalgia. I can't remember if I ever saw the ones that were done in the early 2000s. The new ones are on Disney+ but I'd like to share with her the characters I was introduced to.

Shame they didn't finish the series but it looks like Netix is maybe going to take a Crack at it.

The new ones were actually pretty good.

I'm wary of Netflix taking on a project full of Christian themes.

I think the Disney version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fantastic adaptation. Highly recommend checking it out, next. They stick to the book so well and anything they added I thought was also well thought out.

Unfortunately, I thought they completely veered away from the book too much in Prince Caspian. Added a bunch of conflicts that seemed stupid. Was not a fan of that adaptation.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader I felt was much better and back on point, though still not up to the same quality as the first movie.

Really cool going through the series for the first time. It's one I grew up with and it still holds a special place in my heart. For some reason, my favorite book was always the Horse and His Boy.

This was my favorite book growing up. I read it several times, but I don't recall reading any of the others. My daughter was born soon after the Disney movie came out. I bought a box set of all of The Chronicles of Narnia and set out to read them all in order. Then when my daughter was old enough to understand, I read all of them to her, and she loved them. We had the movie on loop for a while as well.

My son and I really wish The Horse and His Boy had a movie made from it. Probably our favorite book of them all.

Disney version one of my favorite movies and a fantastic score as well.

10andBOUNCE said:

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My son and I really wish The Horse and His Boy had a movie made from it. Probably our favorite book of them all.

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I would absolutely love a movie adaptation of The Horse and His Boy, done right. I love it so much, but I've heard many say it is one of the weakest of the series, which I've never understood.

ETA: As far as Netflix adapting the books... they better not push some modern BS on these books. If they do, the discussions on this board will make all our previous discussions on Hollywood look tame. You don't eff around with CS Lewis and a beloved series like the Chronicles of Narnia.

It's Netflix. It's 2024. Of course they will make changes because reasons.

Lathspell said:

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10andBOUNCE said:

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My son and I really wish The Horse and His Boy had a movie made from it. Probably our favorite book of them all.

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I would absolutely love a movie adaptation of The Horse and His Boy, done right. I love it so much, but I've heard many say it is one of the weakest of the series, which I've never understood.

ETA: As far as Netflix adapting the books... they better not push some modern BS on these books. If they do, the discussions on this board will make all our previous discussions on Hollywood look tame. You don't eff around with CS Lewis and a beloved series like the Chronicles of Narnia.

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Liberals believe it is their right to do just that. And that you have no rights other than to accept what they do with any beloved properties, other wise you are a racist/homophobe/whatever-ist they can come up with next.

Funny timing. Almost finished with the first book, been reading a chapter a night to my son. Really loved them as a kid.

I'm very intrigued by Gerwig doing the Netflix project. Love her stuff and she has a religious upbringing and a deep connection with the books.

If they screw it up it'll be ok. Not everything is meant for a great film/tv adaptation.

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Funny timing. Almost finished with the first book, been reading a chapter a night to my son. Really loved them as a kid.

I'm very intrigued by Gerwig doing the Netflix project. Love her stuff and she has a religious upbringing and a deep connection with the books.

If they screw it up it'll be ok. Not everything is meant for a great film/tv adaptation.

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Then they should leave it alone.

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Funny timing. Almost finished with the first book, been reading a chapter a night to my son. Really loved them as a kid.

I'm very intrigued by Gerwig doing the Netflix project. Love her stuff and she has a religious upbringing and a deep connection with the books.

If they screw it up it'll be ok. Not everything is meant for a great film/tv adaptation.

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To a point, yes. But if they make Aslan some environmental god rather than what anyone who has read the books knows he is supposed to represent, then that's not okay.

ok

I guess. I won't lose much sleep over it. The Witcher books are still good. The Hobbit is still a good book. I just meant that a ****ty Netflix adaptation isn't going to ruin what CS Lewis actually wrote.

Now I'm in the mood for some Turkish Delights!

The magical kind that ruins all food for you for the rest of time?

I will say that I'm in a really happy place right now with children's lit at bedtime. Narnia with my daughter and Encyclopedia Brown with my son. Just trying to figure out when we can move into Indian in the Cupboard and the Hobbit.

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Now I'm in the mood for some Turkish Delights!

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I remember as a kid thinking that Turkish delight had to be the best thing ever. The book made it sound so incredibly good that I absolutely craved it.

I had my first taste of it probably 25 years later and was utterly disappointed when it tasted like a caramel injected with perfume. I felt like Ralphie from A Christmas Story having his "drink more Ovaltine" moment. This revolting concoction was what I'd been waiting years to try?

I later had a homemade version that was palatable, maybe even somewhat enjoyable, but still far from the ambrosia of my imagination.

There's probably a forbidden fruit allegory in there somewhere.

1000% lol

I thought it would be similar to baklava but it is indeed not as wonderful as the book made it out to be.

But wasn't it infused with evil magic or some such? Nah e that's the key.

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Now I'm in the mood for some Turkish Delights!

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I haven't smoked in years.

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This was my favorite book growing up. I read it several times, but I don't recall reading any of the others. My daughter was born soon after the Disney movie came out. I bought a box set of all of The Chronicles of Narnia and set out to read them all in order. Then when my daughter was old enough to understand, I read all of them to her, and she loved them. We had the movie on loop for a while as well.

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I remember the movies from the 80s and the books.

they were great.

very sad!

This cartoon from 1979 introduced me to the world of Narnia as a 6-7 year old kid whenever I saw it on TV back around 1980 maybe? It is SO good and as a result led me to read the books. Yes the animation looks very 1970's but the music is awesome and the storyline is true to the books as much as they could put in a short cartoon movie and I still watch this occasionally as an adult.

One item of note I really caught as an adult is in this, when the witch commits her murder on the stone table, all her minions are cheering in sadistic glee beforehand and when the act happens they are all silent and shocked for a second and look on in disbelief at what they have participated in and then resume their giddy celebration which is how I imagine people witnessing Christ's death on the cross must have felt when it affected them in the moment it happened after they had been calling for His death. Just something I have thought about. This cartoon is a great way to introduce your small kids to all of Narnia!

I get the nostalgia of all the old media, but the 2005 movie is by far the best adaptation, imo. It hits every plot point perfectly, the CGI is fantastic for 2005 and still holds up today, the music is fantastic, and the added battle scene is so freaking good for a PG movie.

Yes, that is the one I grew up watching. Loved it!

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I think the Disney version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fantastic adaptation. Highly recommend checking it out, next. They stick to the book so well and anything they added I thought was also well thought out.

Unfortunately, I thought they completely veered away from the book too much in Prince Caspian. Added a bunch of conflicts that seemed stupid. Was not a fan of that adaptation.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader I felt was much better and back on point, though still not up to the same quality as the first movie.

Really cool going through the series for the first time. It's one I grew up with and it still holds a special place in my heart. For some reason, my favorite book was always the Horse and His Boy.

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My thoughts exactly on the Disney adaptations. Actually I think VOTDT was Fox.

But to the OP's point, I spent a lot of my childhood watching those BBC Chronicles of Narnia movies over and over again. They are actually pretty good adaptations.

I wish somebody could do all 7 some day. The Magician's Nephew especially I think would be great as a movie.

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It's Netflix. It's 2024. Of course they will make changes because reasons.

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Greta Gerwig is in charge. Of course they're going to absolutely destroy it

WTF...

maroon barchetta said:

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It's Netflix. It's 2024. Of course they will make changes because reasons.

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Lucy will be black and gay, Edmund will be trans, Susan will be an activist, and Peter will be a beta soy spouting about enviromentalism.

Mr. Tumnus will be called a "pan-sexual ally" (see what I did there?), and the villainous White Witch will be . . . well, it's right there in the name, isn't it?

Tumnus is a furry. Duh!

Some of your predictions for the Netflix adaptation seem to be spot on. Netflix is doing the Netflix adapation meme.

Meryl Streep is rumored to have been offered the role of Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA’ film.

(Source: https://t.co/X71RJ6uLxq) pic.twitter.com/xu9YyKfJ6Q

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) March 31, 2025

https://screenrant.com/chronicles-of-narnia-movie-remake-netflix-amy-pascal/

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While speaking with Deadline, Pascal teased that Gerwig's upcoming movie will be "a very new take on Narnia. It's all about rock and roll."

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These are my favorite books, ever. Disappointed in the direction form Gerwig. Nothing against Streep at all, she's an incredible actress. I'm certain these won't be on my list of favorite films.

We can only hope Snow White bombing is enough of a warning shot of what not to do...

I hope that this isn't accurate, but if it is, it shows either an indifference to or a misunderstanding of the source material. Cearly not the end of the world, but just unnnecessary.

RED AG 98 said:

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Some of your predictions for the Netflix adaptation seem to be spot on. Netflix is doing the Netflix adapation meme.

Meryl Streep is rumored to have been offered the role of Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA’ film.

(Source: https://t.co/X71RJ6uLxq) pic.twitter.com/xu9YyKfJ6Q

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) March 31, 2025

https://screenrant.com/chronicles-of-narnia-movie-remake-netflix-amy-pascal/

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While speaking with Deadline, Pascal teased that Gerwig's upcoming movie will be "a very new take on Narnia. It's all about rock and roll."

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These are my favorite books, ever. Disappointed in the direction form Gerwig. Nothing against Streep at all, she's an incredible actress. I'm certain these won't be on my list of favorite films.

We can only hope Snow White bombing is enough of a warning shot of what not to do...

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The non-stop girl power coming out of Hollywood is nauseating and exhausting. They are attempting to right the percieved wrongs of 10000 years of human history by making women ridiculous mirror versions of male heros, which nobody takes seriously. A 120 lb woman girl-bossing a 250 lb man is just too much wishful denial of reality, and you are a raging bigot if you notice and comment on it. Name a male part that some liberated progressive new director hasn't turned into a woman needlessly just to "representation-up" what they consider dated content.

Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Liet Kines In Dune.
That gay black chick as Jesus Christ.
Even Arwen in TLOTR (which are ridiculously tame by conparison) is given a much bigger role to keep it from being such a male dominated cast.

It never ends.

And if they aren't needlessly gender and race swapping, they are just "modernizing for modern audiences" as they have done in the recent Snow White, proving they don't know modern audiences at all, nor do they care. They are on a mission to teach the world how to think like their betters have decided they should, and have co-opped almost all modern entertainment to do it.

Pronoun non-sense in modern gaming.
Almost all gay characters are predictably endearing, hilarious, and saintly.
Star Wars and Marvel being absolutely raped by wokism, tarnishing the cherished cultural icons with modern idiocy.
Andonandonandonandon . . .

There is starting to be push back.

Nick Sears.
Mel Gibson.
Jon Voight.
Daily Wire entertainment.
And the list is growing.

Catering to less than half of your potential audience to satisfy you self-righteous desire to feel morally superior turns out to be a $#!+ business model. See Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, and all late night "comedy" shows.

Thank God for any resistance to the absolute insanity.

They're throwing away a **** ton of money on a giant turd

ETA If Hollywood wants to develop existing IP for the built in audience and "safe" investment, they need to first acknowledge that they cannot fundamentally change the source material and do things that will piss off that audience in hopes of expanding it. This is bud lite level stupidity.

I would like to know the position of the estate on this stuff, as owners and guardians of the IP. I know they originally signed the deal in 2018 but my gosh the world has changed drastically since then. Maybe there will be enough backlash for this to be reconsidered.