Greta Gerwig is directing The Magician’s Nephew, the first book in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, for Netflix. Meryl Streep has been cast as the voice of Aslan. The production race-swaps Frank the Cabby and his wife Helen, the first king and queen of Narnia, to black actors. The film moves the story from the early 1900s to the 1950s, which would place the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the 1990s instead of the 1940s. Observers note these cumulative alterations risk producing the worst book-to-film adaptation on record.
Greta Gerwig is directing The Magician’s Nephew, the first book in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, for Netflix. Meryl Streep has been cast as the voice of Aslan. The production race-swaps Frank the Cabby and his wife Helen, the first king and queen of Narnia, to black actors. The film moves the story from the early 1900s to the 1950s, which would place the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the 1990s instead of the 1940s. Observers note these cumulative alterations risk producing the worst book-to-film adaptation on record.
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