re: Gerwig's Narnia isn't "your mom or grandmas Narnia" & features a lot of contemporary music

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because you won't present one.

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What?

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If you don't define yourself, you will be defined by others.

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I have, several times, since the initial (rather simple) argument was apparently confusing.

This version of the IP has no market for long-lasting impact. Young kids don't give a shite and older people already have their concept of it solidified.

At best you'll have Leftists self-flagellating within their bubble over an IP I imagine they don't really care about and that they'll forget once the constant cultural right melts stop being funny.

*ETA: and different versions of IP can be better or worse than others, but will never "destroy" the IP or good versions of it

I give people what they need, whether they realize it or not.

This is going to bomb, hard

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thats the plan

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Yep.

You see... Christian themed entertainment can't make money

I love CS Lewis, love the Narnia series, The screwtape letters etc. \
Huge fan
Magician's nephew was about finding delight in being obedient to God I think that Gershwig will try to destroy that narrative and turn God into a female empowerment version of paganism

So the Chinese will buy it..

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I love CS Lewis, love the Narnia series, The screwtape letters etc. \
Huge fan
Magician's nephew was about finding delight in being obedient to God I think that Gershwig will try to destroy that narrative and turn God into a female empowerment version of paganism

So the Chinese will buy it..

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I have all three of the ones that were released in the aughts. They're pretty good.

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I think that is the impression they would like to give.

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Yeah, that's the impression I got as well. "Hey, kids, this is for you, it's gonna be hip and cool." But in reality, it's probably the same offensive and subversive shite they usually vomit out.

Slow

Let me put this another way:

If Greta Gerwig and Hollywood want to create a fantasy story about kids who experience some kind of fantasy world, why cant they create a new thing?

Why do they use Narnia and, most likely, proceed to rip its identity away? What is the point of that? If it isn't thing, and only uses the language and the names and the simple plot points, Why does it have to be that way?

Why not create something new? Why "version" something?

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If Greta Gerwig and Hollywood want to create a fantasy story about kids who experience some kind of fantasy world, why cant they create a new thing?

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If John Carpenter wants to create a sci-fi story about a shape shifting alien, why can't he create a new thing?

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Why do they use Narnia and, most likely, proceed to rip its identity away?

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That's an internal question for the creatives, judged independently of any other creation using the IP

One of the mediums of judgment will be the market and I doubt this is successful there, and if I'm wrong, that shows you there is a want for that IP to be redone (and it answers your question, at least to an extent)

Nothing is so sacred it can't be redone and reimagined. That doesn't make the output good. Plenty of shitty remakes and reimaginings out there.

But it works once in a while, too.

If you told me about a black-urban reimagining of the Wizard of Oz I'd say it would be shite...or a retelling of the Odyssey in the Jim Crow South based around Americana-bluegrass ...I'd have called that retarded...but they pulled off the Wiz and I Brother. So while a long shot it is possible to work.

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This version of the IP has no market for long-lasting impact. Young kids don't give a shite and older people already have their concept of it solidified.

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The 'modern audience' isn't buying these reimagined stories.

Yet they keep making them. Why, do you think?

Willow - cancelled, removed completely off of D+'s system. Erased. Possibly forever.
Witcher - A massive collapse after disrespecting first the source material, then the star who was a fan of the source material.
Rings of Power - Pure ego project by Bezos who wanted his own GoT. Even his own son told him not to screw this up. He screwed it up. Massively.
Doctor Who - current day team have face planted this series into the cement and laughed at the fandom who have stuck with them for decades. They revel in destroying the past that's made them so beloved. Not anymore.
She Hulk - and speaking of mocking a fan base, the writers went so far as to make the ones who bought into and enjoyed the character the bad guys.
Star Trek - sad that Bill Shatner has lived this long to see the removal of Trek's heart, soul and backbone. But while he's here, we can be thankful he's fighting the good fight.
Star Wars - Lucas sold his creation to the Disney slave trade, and they defiled it beyond recognition. Praise the sequels all you want, but save for Rogue One, every show or movie has lost money.