Narnia no more?
Disney and Walden Media, the two companies who colloborated on the first two “Chronicles of Narnia” movies, have apparently decided to drop plans for the third film in the series “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”
That’s news that has more to do with money than with problems associated with the “Narnia” series’ faith content, Ted Baehr with MovieGuide said this week.
Baehr, in a news release, said one news report about the “Dawn Treader” film took his words of out of context to “make Disney’s decision look like one of the parties in Hollywood was concerned about the movie’s faith content.
“The fact is neither Disney nor Walden has hesitated from including faith in their movies.”
Baehr, author of the book “The Media-Wise Family,” said the book “Dawn Treader” has the least amount of time with Aslan, who is the Jesus figure in the beloved children’s fiction series by Christian author C.S. Lewis.
“It was much more logical that the economics of the movie did not make sense than that there was a concern over the Christian content of the book,” Baehr said in the news release.
Baehr described “Dawn Treader” as more of a travelogue than a well-structured movie. Movies, he said, require very strong, carefully plotted storylines. Of all the Narnia books, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is the most cinematic, Baehr said, “so from an economic point of view, paying more for ‘Dawn Treader’ does not make sense.”
As a reader of the Narnia series (as a pre-teen) and a subsequent fan of both Disney/Walden films “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “Prince Caspian,” I can’t help but be a little disappointed that ”Dawn Treader” won’t make it to the big screen.
Baehr’s words about economics ring true, however.
I wonder how other fans of the “Narnia” series and films will feel once they discover this latest bit of news?
Carla Hinton
Religion Editor
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