Similarly, in an op-ed titled “Aslan Unmade,” cultural apologist and teacher Annie Crawford wrote: “To change the gender of The Lion, of The King… is to completely alter the structure and meaning of Lewis’s sacramental cosmos.” In terms of investment, Netflix’s Narnia film series is likely to rival Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, which will amount to about $3 billion in production and rights costs by its fifth and final season. In this case, an attempt to cast Streep as the Son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea, one of Aslan’s titles in Narnia, feels like a slap in the face to diehard franchise fans.
Author: Josh Shepherd
Published at: 2025-04-07 21:44:19
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