NarniaWeb, a Narnia-insider fan site, has inside reporting from the IMAX Investor's Day meeting and I am now more worried than ever.
Warning: It's cringe!
I can just see it now.
Lucy enters the wardrobe just to "Break on through to the other side! Break on through to the other side!"
Or, since this is "The Magician's Nephew," it'll probably lean into something like "Comfortably Numb" as the children are teleporting to Charn.
(In other words, it's going to suck.)
Here's the whole quote from the CEO of IMAX Rich Gelfond:
This is a real blockbuster movie that's being made for [IMAX and Netflix] and you know, I guess I do have to talk a little about why I'm so excited about it. This is not your mother's or your grandmother‘s Narnia. The music in it is unbelievably contemporary music, which IMAX fans like. I'm not gonna say specifically, but things like Pink Floyd and The Doors. You know that kind of music which people go to see in IMAX.
It's not your mother's or grandmother's Narnia, AKA the faithful children's book about Christ-character Aslan's sacrifice, resurrection, and victory over the powers of evil, and the role the Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve play in the great story as Kings and Queens of Narnia.
Instead, it's a feminist romp set to your hippy grandma's punk-rock albums from the '60s.
Before you dismiss this report, consider this article of ours from 2024:
Film director Greta Gerwig, best known for her "Barbie" film, says she sees her work as "the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis" and wants to strip away "pre-Victorian morality."
They put a woman who hates everything that Christian theologian C.S. Lewis stands for in charge of C.S. Lewis.
(In other words, the White Witch is making a Narnia movie.)
I love Classic Rock. I love C.S. Lewis and Narnia.
I have no doubt that I am going to hate this movie.
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