The 🧙Magician's Nephew (forthcoming film adaptation)

[Radaghast]

Not sure if this is the right place for this, since it's a film adaptation, not a written work, but the trailer for The Magician's Nephew is out. The film will be released February 27.

The Magician's Nephew was originally the sixth book to be released but the first chronologically, and, beginning in 1980, the series was released in the Chronicles' chronological order. But TMN still serves as a prequel as both book and movie.

 

[Deimos]

Nope... a pass for me.
CSL readers will not be happy with this at all.

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

I personally do not plan to watch the movie (never-mind the fact I also don't have Netflix). They ruined it when they cast Meryl Streep as Aslan. She's a great actress and all, but she has no business playing the Great Lion. 😑 He is, and evermore shall and should be, a male and played by a male.

I'll be happily sticking to the three Chronicles of Narnia movies made by Disney (my favorite by far being The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe), and to the Logos Theatre's stage productions.

 

[Deimos]

I personally do not plan to watch the movie (never-mind the fact I also don't have Netflix). They ruined it when they cast Meryl Streep as Aslan. She's a great actress and all, but she has no business playing the Great Lion. 😑 He is, and evermore shall and should be, a male and played by a male.

I'll be happily sticking to the three Chronicles of Narnia movies made by Disney (my favorite by far being The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe), and to the Logos Theatre's stage productions.

Oh, it's on Netflix? (I didn't notice that).
So, problem solved; I don't have Netflix either 😁

 

[Radaghast]

I personally do not plan to watch the movie (never-mind the fact I also don't have Netflix). They ruined it when they cast Meryl Streep as Aslan. She's a great actress and all, but she has no business playing the Great Lion. 😑 He is, and evermore shall and should be, a male and played by a male.

I'll be happily sticking to the three Chronicles of Narnia movies made by Disney (my favorite by far being The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe), and to the Logos Theatre's stage productions.

It's going to be released to theaters. Netflix is just one of the distributors. Just saying.

Anyway, I'm probably not going to watch it either, until maybe it's available to borrow from the library. To be honest, I reread these books not too long ago and they didn't hold up very well, so I have minimal interest at best.

Meryl Streep as Aslan. That's...weird. But given the film is by Greta Gerwig, I'm not terribly surprised.

 

[Deimos]

It's going to be released to theaters. Netflix is just one of the distributors. Just saying.

Anyway, I'm probably not going to watch it either, until maybe it's available to borrow from the library. To be honest, I reread these books not too long ago and they didn't hold up very well, so I have minimal interest at best.

Meryl Streep as Aslan. That's...weird. But given the film is by Greta Gerwig, I'm not terribly surprised.

I reread them every few years. For me they do hold up well, very well, indeed.
I keep discovering something "new" in them with every re-read. .
Also apropos this Netflix...thing... I am a particularly annoyed (appalled?) because MN is my favorite of the the Seven Books.
Both Digory and Uncle Andrew are totally miscast relative their physical likeness ( alikeness? haha) to the book characters.
Can't wait to hear what Narnia readers have to say...getting my popcorn ready ...should be scathingly entertaining. 😆

 

[Radaghast]

I reread them every few years. For me they do hold up well, very well, indeed.
I keep discovering something "new" in them with every re-read. .
Also apropos this Netflix...thing... I am a particularly annoyed (appalled?) because MN is my favorite of the the Seven Books.
Both Digory and Uncle Andrew are totally miscast relative their physical likeness ( alikeness? haha) to the book characters.
Can't wait to hear what Narnia readers have to say...getting my popcorn ready ...should be scathingly entertaining. 😆

For me, I guess the only book that still holds up is Lion. The others I find rather grating. Either because of the allegory or because of characters being intensely stupid and/or annoying.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Radaghast]

Where's Bacchus?

 

[Ricardo]

If memory serves, the magician's nephew was supposed to be chronologically the first book, before the events of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, but was released later I think. It tells the story of the old man that took the children in the lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

 

[Radaghast]

If memory serves, the magician's nephew was supposed to be chronologically the first book, before the events of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, but was released later I think. It tells the story of the old man that took the children in the lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

Yes, it is the first in the series chronologically but was the 6th book to be released. It takes place in the early 20th century ("Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street").

Original publication order, from 1950-1956:

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. The Horse and His Boy
6. The Magician's Nephew
7. The Last Battle

Chronological Order:

1. The Magician's Nephew
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle

When I was an admirer of these books, I preferred the original order. I still would if I ever ventured to read them again. I'm almost tempted to, as I have The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, which is beautifully illustrated by Pauline Baynes.

 

[Ricardo]

Yes, it is the first in the series chronologically but was the 6th book to be released. It takes place in the early 20th century ("Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street").

Original publication order, from 1950-1956:

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. The Horse and His Boy
6. The Magician's Nephew
7. The Last Battle

Chronological Order:

1. The Magician's Nephew
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle

When I was an admirer of these books, I preferred the original order. I still would if I ever ventured to read them again. I'm almost tempted to, as I have The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, which is beautifully illustrated by Pauline Baynes.

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Yes, I agree, I think the order was intentional, it keeps building up without giving all the information. You know the old man in the lion ... is related to Narnia but you don't know how until the 6th book. Narrative in novels doesn't need to be linear.

 

[Radaghast]

Yes, I agree, I think the order was intentional, it keeps building up without giving all the information. You know the old man in the lion ... is related to Narnia but you don't know how until the 6th book. Narrative in novels doesn't need to be linear.

Absolutely agree, but actually, Lewis had no idea he'd be writing a series. He was inspired to by the popularity of the first book and just kept building on the Narnian mythos. But I think it worked out better that way. In the original order, it felt like Lewis was peeling back layers of Narnia and showing us different aspects of it, its history, geography, etc. With the chronological order, it's just, meh, imho.