This is sort of an old story, but New Line Studios (who gave us Peter Jackson's adaptation of LOTR) plans to produce Philip Pullman's "children's" trilogy, His Dark Materials. Pullman's inspiration supposedly comes from descriptions of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, notably one of C.S. Lewis' favorite poems.
If you're not already sold on the film, check out Pullman's response to Narnia in The Chronicle Review:
Pullman has described The Chronicles not just as "propaganda in the cause of the religion [Lewis] believed in," but also as guilty of advancing views such as, "Death is better than life; boys are better than girls; light-colored people are better than dark-colored people; and so on." And those are just Pullman's G-rated charges. He also has blasted The Chronicles in public forums as "one of the most ugly and poisonous things I've ever read," "propaganda in the service of a life-hating ideology," "blatantly racist," "monumentally disparaging of girls and women," and marked by a "sadomasochistic relish for violence."
I have tried to read these books, feeling obligated as a lover and defender of children's literature, but his writing is too boring aside from the fact that his books are A Child's Foul Garden of Atheism.
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You really need to find a better picture of that guy, because the pixellation is just too distracting!
How's this one? For some reason pictures of him just don't turn out; I think it has to do with his acclaimed absence of spirituality.
I love the Chronicles, and the new picture of so-and-so is much more pleasing to the eye.
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