Chronicles of Narnia

[House of Mustard]

Well, this can't be good.

Disney is collaborating on making the classics into a movie.

Read all about it:  http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/02/film.narnia.reut/index.html

[Spriggan]

Ya the production company bought the rights about a year ago, blame it on Harry Potter and LOTR doing very well money wise.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

my first response is to say "Don't be so judgemental" but then I remember what they did to The Black Cauldron

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

they'll prolly do a good job with LOTR winning so many oscars and staying so faithful to the books...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Black Cauldron, LIttle Mermaid, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame. No... I have no faith that Disney will do a faithful rendition, whatever the success of Wingnut Films.

[House of Mustard]

The article does say that they've got a hefty 100 mil budget.  Still, there have been a lot of big budget stinkers.

My real worry, though, is that they'll take out the Christian symbolism and trade it for Hogwarts and magic wands.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Well they left it in in the PBS versions.  I was always upset that they never did my two favorites Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy.

Though I LOOOOOVE Tom Baker as Puddleglum.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

So why did they change Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? WTF?

[House of Mustard]

From what I remember, it was released in England as the Philosopher's Stone, and in america as the Sorcerer's Stone.  I don't know why though.

[Entsuropi]

Philosophers stone makes sense - they really did search for that i think.

Sorcerors stone, eh.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Alright fine, whatever. Have your philosophers stone. Bunch of philistines.

[Entsuropi]

I refuse to be classed as a philistine by the human version of a chichuana.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I"m assuming you mean "chihuahua," which is actually quite funny.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

imaganing the bug eyes....

[EUOL]

Don't be quite so hard on the 'Sorcerer's Stone' debacle.  It was dumb, yes, but Harry Potter wasn't the best-seller then that it is now.  That was the first book, and Scholastic was taking a chance by publishing it.  They changed the title for marketing reasons, thinking that 'sorcerer' in the title would make it more appealing to kids than 'philosopher' would.  It kind of makes sense--you're launching a new children's fantasy series.  Nothing in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' gives an indication of genre.