I don’t have Netflix anymore but this seems in line with Netflix. Would be great if an adaptation done today cared about the author’s vision. These companies could have some mega hit shows but decide that isn’t important
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100% chance it's just Amazon's LOTR all over again.
Of course and the usual attacks on fans
If they can't have it, no one can. This is how conquest works. They take ground, and if they are ever forced back, they salt the earth behind them before they flee.
We need to start doing the same. Leave no quarter.
That is how "pride" in general works. It's the belief that you are better than everybody else and deserve control over them. If you can't actually get control over it then it's better off not existing and should just be destroyed.
Both LoTR and Narnia are inherently Christian and it took just one recreation of The Hobbit to sully the cinematic name of the former. They aren't interested in faithful retellings, they're interested in exactly what they accuse "old dead white men" of: cultural imperialism, colonization, and iconoclasm. Christ man bad and all His works, big and small, need to be debased or erased.
The new Narnia will be hated by everyone alive except the three bored trannies who like it, but in 30 years when my kids try to read their kids Narnia, every search will bring this shit up first.
Hell, it already happens today: the 80s Shogun miniseries is a fucking masterpiece starring Toshiro Mifune and no one gives a shit about it because "it's too old."
That's probably why they put so much effort into subverting those, even with all the good will it lost them.
I’ve been meaning to rewatch 80s shogun. I remember when I was very little my dad watching it. Also want to read the book
They're both great, definitely recommended. Gimli is the Portuguese pilot.
The last adaptation made in the 00s already did a decent job of adapting the source material, hot off the success of LOTR doing the same thing. It was the golden era of movie making for such adaptations. Enough tech to build beautiful worlds but the woke mind virus hasn't reached the brain just yet.
Unfortunately, those that did such great work retired or moved on and the DEI hires and Karens took over the machine they could never build themselves.
So of course they subvert existing materials and corrupt it because they are unable to do anything unique that doesn't instantly bomb in the box office since even the cover art makes 99% of fans of the genre nope the fuck out.
I’m just waiting for the “we need to reflect the world as it is today”
Why wait for it. You already know that's exactly what's going to happen. It's Netflix after all.
Exactly. I haven’t read all the books. I have it in my stack to read
The Pevensies will be black, at least one will be gay or a tranny with a pro-faggotization of children message forced in, and the White Witch will say something like "Make Cair Paravel Great Again"
Many, many (((clickbait))) articles will hail it as the best thing ever
You sound like you’ve noticed a pattern
Why thank you, I pride myself on my antisemitism.
Don’t forget the “Narnia was always woke” articles
Or they’ll try to redeem the witch because she’s a woman. Probably blame all of her mistakes on an abusive white Christian father.
That’s the other big one: they are absolutely going change any obvious allusions to Christianity.
And the shill media will either praise that decision or say there were never any Christian allusions. They made a similar article about Tolkien
If by decent you mean half assed crap that couldn't sustain itself past the third movie
Excellent, another Netflix adaptation. I can't wait to watch Patel Pevensie, LaSusan Pevensie, Edmundjeet Pevensie and Liu-Shi Pevensie siding with Mufaslan to defeat the evil Huwite Huwitch.
Is it an allegory of the “The Devil is good” trope this time?
I eagerly await them painting Jadis committing literal omnicide on her universe as a good thing. They'll probably make her sister she was warring with into her brother, too.
My new word for the day
A Christianity inspired book adaptation made by current day Hollywood.
Maybe if Angel Studios made it, I would give it a shot.
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
Angel studios doing it would be great! By the way have you ever read Pilgrim’s Progress?
To my shame, no. I need to get it
Beautiful classic story
I wonder if Gerwig got Meryl Streep to be Aslan's VA? I gave up all hope when I heard that. Now I'm expecting a feminist witch, a gay Tumnus, and a transgender rabbit family
New vision means no more Christian allegory
Exactly. If Netflix did a faithful adaptation with the Christian allegory I’d get Netflix again. But you know they will never do that
Feminist witch would be too accurate.
So it's just going to be complete garbage
Yea. “New vision” basically means screw the source material
Anyone know where I can place a bet on whether or not they make Jadis a sympathetic victim of "muh patriarchy"? I could use a few extra bucks for Christmas.
It's made by the feminist director of Barbie and financed by Netflix.
It's going to be a complete disaster.
"Re-imaginings" almost never work.
Strangely enough, one that DID is one of my favorite movies of all time: Scarface.
Yeah, the Al Pacino movie wasn't the original. The original came out in 1932 and starred Paul Muni. It was about moving alcohol during Prohibition.
You can easily "reimagine" a story by simply copying the general premise but making it completely different in terms of both setting and target audience.
Look up the various Cinderella stories that throw out things like The Princess Dairies from 2001, and then flip both the protag and target audience to men so you end up with Kingsman.
They are both stories about a young adult finding out that they are secretly connected to some fantastical world which takes them away from their shitty life, except in the case of the girls' story it turns into "You're a princess,
HarryHarriet", while Kingsman is "You're a spy, bruv".Most are just some form or another of the monomyth anyway, and doing something Narnia-esque wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world if these parasites had any creative ability at all, but both multiple and repeated failures of novel works, in addition to things like the latter seasons of Game of Thrones show what happen when the source material author isn't around any more and why showrunners are showrunners and not authors.
One of my favorite E;R gags was him pointing out that Narnia is, at it's core, an Isekai story. Kids from the real world getting whisked away to a fantasy one where they become heroes. It just doesn't occur to us that that's what it is, because Narnia is more grounded and less blatantly tropey than what we expect from the genre.
Hold on, that got me thinking.
Would Fellowship of The Rings be considered a slice of life story then?
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and The Fly are a couple of others that worked, and I'm seeing a pattern. It seems they only work when very loosely based on the original.
Edit: and could add The Thing to the list.
While Cronenberg's Fly is a superior movie it doesn't have Vincent Price's tiny head on a fly body tingling out "help me," in Chipmunk voice while stuck in a web as a spider approaches
I saw the fly after I saw the Simpsons reference to that on the Halloween episode
Same.
Forbidden Planet too. That was a reimagining of The Tempest I think
I enjoy the original. The Pacino version is a classic. That is an update that makes sense since prohibition was long over by that point. Also, I think the Sci-Fi channel’s reimagine of Wizard of Oz wasn’t bad. Tin Man I think it was called. From early 00s
...Y'all still have Netflix?
Let 'em burn money. An unfaithful adaptation doesn't bring in new audiences, and doesn't even retain old ones. All it does is burn money.
Also it ruins the search results with pollution.
Don’t have it but saw that ad and couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the usual sign of a garbage adaptation
Put a woman in it and make her gay
I hope they do it in book order not chronological order.
The Magicians Nephew and The Last Battle are best as movies only in my imagination.
Unfortunately. chronological order is now considered the book order since the late 90s. A major pet peeve of mine.
Even as a teenager I believed this was done on purpose to destroy the legacy of the books. Magicians Nephew is absolutely the weakest of the books, and serves best as something to fill in the history of a world you have already come to love from the other books. While The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe is an absolute classic and the best possible introduction to the world of Narnia.
How many people have been turned away from the series by trying to read the "first book" and getting "The Magician's Nephew" instead of the masterpiece that is TLtWatW? How many people in the half century before only read TLtWatW?
They've been trying to destroy it for near 40 years already.
THEYZ B TURKISH DELIGHT N SHEIT!!!
You made me laugh out loud since that is barely satire. I could see a variation of that with Netflix
'What if the Jesus lion was actually the villain?' - Some jew at Netflix, probably.
i dont know why anyone still has Netflix at this point. Barely anything they have is older than 10 years except for a few well known classics. Everything else [made in the last 10 years] is remakes, redos, sequels, prequels, reboots, whatever, all woke garbage wearing the skin suit of your beloved original content.
I cancelled a while back. Part of the reason is that I mainly watch older stuff and wasn’t into Netflix originals
its interesting that streaming services have an entirely different revenue model than most people understand.
All they need is enough content to get people to subscribe: some classics, 1-3 good new series, and the rest can be absolute trash because they already have the money makers that finance the other schlock.
True. I’m loving the free streaming services like Tubi. They have a TON of 80s and 90s stuff. A bunch of B movies that look great now compared to what out today