{"id":2665006,"date":"2026-09-19T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-wont-be-faithfully-adapting-the-last-narnia-book-any-time-soon-the-islamic-seeming-villains-stage-a-religious-takeover-sound-familiar\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:27:57","slug":"netflix-wont-be-faithfully-adapting-the-last-narnia-book-any-time-soon-the-islamic-seeming-villains-stage-a-religious-takeover-sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-wont-be-faithfully-adapting-the-last-narnia-book-any-time-soon-the-islamic-seeming-villains-stage-a-religious-takeover-sound-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Won&#8217;t Be Faithfully Adapting the Last &#8216;Narnia&#8217; Book Any Time Soon: The Islamic-Seeming Villains Stage a Religious Takeover &#8211; Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetflix-wont-be-faithfully-adapting-the-last-narnia-book-any-time-soon-the-islamic-seeming-villains-stage-a-religious-takeover-sound-familiar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2665006&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dei-disaster-petition-circulating-within-secret-service-community-warns-of-potential-insider-threats\/\" title=\"DEI Crisis: Secret Service Petition Raises Concerns About &#039;Insider Threats\">article discusses concerns<\/a> regarding Netflix&#8217;s upcoming adaptation of the &#8220;Narnia&#8221; series, particularly focusing on potential deviations from the original Christian allegories. It highlights that the series&#8217; ending, which features a false Aslan aligned wiht Islamic symbolism, raises issues about the depiction of religious themes, especially given the original works&#8217; clear Christian message by C.S. Lewis. The choice of director Greta Gerwig, known for her work on &#8220;Barbie&#8221; and her Unitarian Universalist background, suggests a possible shift away from the conservative religious tone of Lewis&#8217;s stories toward more liberal and woke interpretations. The piece emphasizes that faithfully adapting the final Narnia book would conflict with certain cultural and religious sensibilities worldwide, thus explaining why Netflix might opt for a more altered version. it expresses concern about how the adaptation might distort or undermine the original Christian allegories in favor of contemporary cultural agendas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After an entire spring and summer of what could charitably called \u201cOdysseymaxxing\u201d \u2014 offering hot takes on a movie nobody had really seen from a director who definitely made what could be called some curious decisions in casting and interpreting ancient literature \u2014 I was not looking forward to a September of culture clashes over the Netflix \u201cNarnia\u201d remakes.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, here we are. Because yes, they do seem to be going in a woke direction; yes, this does seem like just the cultural trainwreck some had predicted; and yes, there\u2019s a reason we should be concerned.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just not the one everyone is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, if Netflix were to be true to C.S. Lewis\u2019 vision regarding the whole of the \u201cChronicles of Narnia\u201d series, it could never adapt the last book. Or, if it did so faithfully, the service would be banned in a wide swath of the world, specifically that swath which worships a god you can\u2019t even draw or else you\u2019d better get yourself the Salman Rushdie security special.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019ve been paying attention to social media culture wars over the past 48-72 hours, you\u2019ve probably heard that Meryl Streep is going to be voicing Aslan, the lion in the \u201cNarnia\u201d universe, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/director-confirms-ways-netflix-butchering-beloved-christian-classic-chronicles-narnia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">director Greta Gerwig\u2019s adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meryl Streep is voicing Aslan in Greta Gerwig\u2019s \u201cNarnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew.\u201d The lion\u2019s new design is inspired by David Bowie (multicolored eyes and a red-striped face).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xuzj9ebYEt\">pic.twitter.com\/Xuzj9ebYEt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2100657320422211823?\">September 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the books \u2014 and really, where the heck have you been? \u2014 there are subtle metaphors for many things contained in their pages, but the three things that Lewis was pretty unsubtle about\u00a0 were that, one, it\u2019s an allegory about religion; two, the one true religion is Christianity; and three, Aslan is supposed to represent Jesus in a separate universe.<\/p>\n<p>Ergo, making the Son of God a female is certainly disrespecting His pronouns, at least if you\u2019re going by that other, more important compendium where He\u2019s featured (66 books if you\u2019re a Protestant, 73 if you\u2019re a Catholic). And yes, I get that it\u2019s an allegory in a separate universe and not <em>really<\/em> Jesus or God, but the representation also gives us a clue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/netflix-preparing-destroy-beloved-christian-classic-offensive-alteration-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerwig\u2019s<\/a> direction on the project, which was already questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Gerwig, best known for directing the polarizing (if wildly successful, box office-wise) 2023 film version of \u201cBarbie,\u201d was put at the helm of the project in the same year. There is considerable debate over whether Gerwig\u2019s oeuvre is woke feminist nonsense or covertly traditionalist; I will say that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4925292\/?_ssoLoop=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lady Bird<\/a>,\u201d her first film as a director, is actually quite brilliant in both artistry and message.<\/p>\n<p>However, given that she\u2019s working on an overtly Christian work by a man who was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/c-s-lewis-say-woman-playing-depiction-christ-netflixs-narnia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairly orthodox Christian<\/a>, it\u2019s worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/c-s-lewis-rolling-grave-knew-directing-new-narnia-adaption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerwig\u2019s own religious upbringing<\/a> was in the highly liberal and heterodox Unitarian Universalist sect, which doesn\u2019t even acknowledge the Bible as the one true source of sacred text.<\/p>\n<p>This match of Gerwig as director and Lewis works as source material, in other words, had about as much of a chance of working out as a blind date between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-pundit-matt-walsh-issues-defiant-statement-receives-flood-death-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Walsh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/political-suicide-far-left-podcasters-say-gavin-newsoms-sudden-israel-support-will-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Welch<\/a>. But that might be the point for Netflix, which has no paucity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-netflix-kids-movie-slammed-one-satanic-inversions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke nonsense<\/a> in its library already and wants the money that comes with the \u201cNarnia\u201d IP more than it wants anything resembling a faithful remake.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m not just talking about the Meryl Streep voice. Let others Narniamaxx about that. Nor will I draw much attention to the fact that it\u2019s being hyped as a rock opera take that apparently references David Bowie, because \u2026 why not? (Given my reading and listening habits, I\u2019m sure that I\u2019ve probably listened to a Bowie song at the same time I was reading some Lewis, but just because \u201cSuffragette City\u201d doesn\u2019t clash with \u201cThe Screwtape Letters\u201d doesn\u2019t mean the two <em>go together<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I\u2019m going to argue that Netflix couldn\u2019t actually do the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabrielle-union-stars-in-disneys-woke-cheaper-by-the-dozen-disaster\/\" title=\"Gabrielle Union Stars In Disney...s Woke \u2018Cheaper By The Dozen... Disaster\">original source material<\/a>, if it plans to go all the way \u2014 because if it did, it would be called \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s fast forward to the end of the \u201cNarnia\u201d series \u2014 spoilers be darned, because if you haven\u2019t caught up on the books in the past 70 years, that\u2019s kind of on you.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Last Battle,\u201d the main antagonist is Shift, an ape, and Puzzle, his donkey companion. Shift convinces Puzzle to don a lion\u2019s skin and portray himself as a false Aslan. He then fools the Calormenes \u2014 inhabitants of a land that has very strong elements of Middle Eastern and Ottoman culture. He convinces them that \u201cAslan\u201d is just another name for their deity, the evil Tash.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the false god of \u201cTashlan\u201d is established, with Shift as his emissary.<\/p>\n<p>Sound, uh, a little familiar to you? The echoes of Islam, with Allah as its God and Muhammad as His prophet, are unavoidable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the final book of Narnia, The Last Battle, a donkey wears a skinsuit of Aslan &#038; leads people astray.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018False Aslan\u2019 floods Narnia with a bunch of Muslims, who then slaughter all the native Narnians.<\/p>\n<p>This was not merely a children\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>It was a warning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8ju5KhLfY\">https:\/\/t.co\/o8ju5KhLfY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4shwZutNn4\">pic.twitter.com\/4shwZutNn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OldeWorldOrder\/status\/2100879011945542131?\">September 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even though the book was published 70 years ago \u2014 1956 \u2014 it seemed to anticipate one of the hot-button religious issues of our time, and in a way that was uniquely biblical. Like the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d trilogy, the \u201cNarnia\u201d books are more than explicitly Christian allegories: They also don\u2019t play nice with issues that aren\u2019t nice.<\/p>\n<p>False gods, heaven and hell, sin: These are treated as the difficult and ugly things they are, not just glazed over. That\u2019s crucial to why they resonate, and also crucial to why their millions of fans feel more protective over how they\u2019re treated than other intellectual properties.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, then, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that a series allegorically about the Christian God that also presents a false god who resembles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/allah-made-man-wielding-2-butcher-knives-attacks-3-women-1-pregnant-says-allah-commanded-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the god of Islam<\/a> is being handled, in the hands of Netflix, as a Bowie-inspired rock opera by the woman who brought us \u201cBarbie.\u201d In fact, we probably should have been more surprised \u2014 nay, gobsmacked \u2014 had the source material been adapted faithfully. No gobsmacking here.<\/p>\n<p>And presumably, no trouble getting it onto the service in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disneys-new-toy-story-spin-off-banned-14-countries-lgbt-content-report\/\">certain, ahem, countries<\/a>. Netflix will never get accused of being called Islamophobic racists. 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