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Disney says they're commited to producing every Narnia book, once a year, just like Mr. Jackson did for Middle Earth. I'm late to the Narnian train myself. Just yesterday I finished the first book, The Magician's Nephew. As I was the last to find out, Magician's Nephew is more of a prologue than an actual novel. But I still enjoyed it. This is surprising because I've found that I generally don't like traditional modern fantasy. I read it only because my daughter started in on the books and I wanted to keep up. So now I have a renewed interest in the Narnia series. After I read Wardrobe I'll have to check out the movie, which right now looks to me like a bland CGI test reel. From what I understand, it's actually not a bad adaptation. So perhaps the book will help me appreciate the visual splendor of thousands of cartoon manbeasts running across the grass with spears and swords and shit.
UPDATE 9/20- IGN.com says production on the third film, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, has been delayed. It's now scheduled for a May, 2010 release date. Guess it's not so easy to roll like Jackson. Read the full article HERE.
Defend Hobbits and goblins and viking trolls right HERE.
4 comments:
The problem is that they re-numbered the darned books.
When I was a nerd-kid instead of a nerd with kids, The Magician's Nephew was #6 or #7 (next to last, anway), and Lion was #1. Sometime in the last 20 years, they re-numbered them.
Reading Magician's Nephew first is sort of like watching Star Wars #1 first. You can do it, but you're not sure why everyone's so excited to see R2-D2, or any of the other characters.
As a 10 year old, the fun part of Magician's Nephew was figuring out, "Oh, the boy is actually the old guy in the other books!" and related revelations.
I saw that cartoon years ago, so I knew Aslan. I was also excited to see the queen who offered Vivian a turkish delight in The Young Ones.
Can a film be a "good adaptation" and still be terribly middling at the same time? I'm seriously asking because I haven't read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Adamson's film, however, is Blandsville.
If a movie sucks, I wouldn't consider it a good adaptation no matter how faithful it was. Look at the first two Harry Potter films. They recreated the first two books perfectly and still managed to be lame and dull.
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