Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia): Discover where the magic began in this illustrated prequel to the children’s classics by C.S. Lewis: Book 1

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Jadis takes on echoes of Satan from the same work: she climbs over the wall of the Garden in contempt of the command to enter only by the gate, and proceeds to tempt Digory as Satan tempted Eve, with lies and half-truths. [32] The original opening of the novel differs greatly from the published version, and was abandoned by Lewis. It is now known as 'The Lefay Fragment', and is named after MrsLefay, Digory's fairy godmother, who is mentioned in the final version as Uncle Andrew's godmother, a less benevolent user of magic, who bequeathed him the box of dust used to create the magic rings. [9] Netflix has a “multi-year deal” whereby it will have multiple film and series projects on the go, all based on the books of Narnia exclusively. One day, Polly Plummer, a young girl living in a London row house, is surprised to meet a young boy, Digory, who’s moved in next door. He’s living with his old, unmarried aunt and uncle, the Ketterleys, because his mother is dying and his father is away in India. The two children speculate about Digory’s “mad” Uncle Andrew and Andrew’s mysterious study. Polly and Digory become friends and spend the summer exploring the interconnected attics of the row houses. After Digory puts on the yellow ring, he suddenly finds himself emerging in a light-filled wood with many small ponds. Polly is there, and despite both children being in a dreamy haze, they eventually remember what’s happened and make a plan to return home. At the last minute, they decide to explore other pools to see what kinds of worlds might exist there. The children switch to green rings, join hands, and jump into a different pool, which deposits them in a cold, ruined, apparently vacant world called Charn. They wander through crumbling courtyards until they enter a hall filled with the frozen forms of dozens of richly-dressed people. There’s also a little golden bell with a hammer beside it. After a heated argument (Polly senses danger and wants to go home; Digory doesn’t want to be driven mad with curiosity), Digory strikes the bell with the hammer to see what will happen. Moments later, a fierce, beautiful queen is awakened from her enchanted sleep and approaches them.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (Treatment stage but expected to be an old project)Netflix will develop new series and film projects based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series. Under the terms of a multi-year deal between Netflix and The C.S. Lewis Company, Netflix will develop classic stories from across the Narnia universe into series and films for its members worldwide. Fledge: The winged horse, formerly the cab-horse Strawberry, who carries Polly and Digory to the mountain garden Ward, Michael (2008). Planet Narnia: the seven heavens in the imagination of C. S. Lewis. Oxford University Press. Pattertwig and Aunt Gertrude do not appear in the final version of the novel. Pattertwig does, however, appear as a Narnian creature in Prince Caspian, and Aunt Gertrude's career path is retraced by the Head of Experiment House in The Silver Chair. [11] Authenticity [ edit ] Book Review: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis". Jandy's Reading Room. Jandy's Books (JandysBooks.com) . Retrieved 13 June 2012.

Those who dislike and mistrust Aslan fail to recognize the beauty of his creation, and they seek to misuse it or are altogether repelled by it. For instance, Uncle Andrew’s first instinct is to assume that Narnia can be exploited for material gain: “I have discovered a world where everything is bursting with life and growth. Columbus, now, they talk about Columbus. But what was America to this? The commercial possibilities of this country are unbounded. Bring a few old bits of scrap iron here, bury ’em, and up they come as brand new railway engines, battleships, anything you please. […] I shall be a millionaire. And then the climate! I feel years younger already. I can run it as a health resort. A good sanatorium here might be worth twenty thousand a year. Of course I shall have to let a few people into the secret. The first thing is to get that brute shot.” Uncle Andrew’s first reaction to Narnia’s bursting life is not grateful wonder. Rather, it’s a cynical desire to use Narnia to enrich himself—exploiting the land’s magical properties to “grow” machines of war, and exploiting people’s vulnerabilities to make himself rich through a health resort. Ultimately, he wants to use Narnia as a means to increase his own notoriety. To do all this, Uncle Andrew will have to kill Aslan. His ambitions show that he fundamentally misunderstands not just Narnia, but Aslan as its very source of life. Without Aslan as Narnia’s creator and ruler, the kingdom’s beauty and value can’t continue to exist as it does. Finally, in early 2020, several fan-made posters went viral on social media. For many, this was the first time many had heard Netflix is adapting the books. I did not in the least feel that I was getting in more quantity or better quality a pleasure I had already known. It was more as if a cupboard which one had hitherto valued as a place for hanging coats proved one day, when you opened the door, to lead to the garden of the Hesperides... [34]The frame story, set in England, features two children ensnared in experimental travel via "the wood between the worlds". Thus, the novel shows Narnia and our middle-aged world to be only two of many in a multiverse, which changes as some worlds begin and others end. It also explains the origin of foreign elements in Narnia, not only the lamp-post but also the White Witch and a human king and queen. On March 22, 2011 it was announced that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew would be the next film in the series. The Magician's Nephew is a prequel to the series. The middle third of the novel features the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the lion, centred on a section of a lamp-post brought by accidental observers from London in 1900. The visitors then participate in the beginning of Narnia's history, 1000 years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [a] (which inaugurated the series in 1950).

In The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis gives a vivid account of the dawn of the kingdom of Narnia, the primary setting in the rest of The Chronicles of Narnia series. The burgeoning vitality of this world finds its origin in Aslan’s innate, inexhaustible creativity. Those whom Aslan creates, or those who come to share in his world through their gratitude and wonder at his creation, are endowed with dignity and beauty by association with him. By contrast, those who mistrust Aslan resist and seek to exploit the beauty of his world, even failing to see it for what it is. Through this juxtaposition, Lewis suggests that the beauty and dignity of the world and its creatures is upheld by those who honor its creator.In January 2020, Narniaweb posted that Douglas Gresham (stepson of C. S. Lewis) has little knowledge of where Netflix is at with production. Narnia: Walden, Fox in discussions on The Magician's Nephew". Bryan Lufkin. Inside Movies. Entertainment Weekly (EW.com). 23 March 2011. Confirmed 10 December 2012. In 2003, the BBC produced a 10-part version read by Jane Lapotaire and signed by Jean St Clair wearing different Narnia-like clothes in British Sign Language, for the TV series Hands Up! which was first broadcast on the 16 January 2003. [51] Jean signed in front of various high quality illustrations representing parts of the novel. It was later repeated on CBBC on the 3 December 2007, and BBC Two on the 16 September 2008. [52] [53] [54] Radio [ edit ] Erina Caradus wrote a playscript for The Magician's Nephew that was performed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2005. [43] [c] Film [ edit ] Parallels with events in the Book of Genesis include the forbidden fruit represented by an Apple of Life. Jadis tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as the serpent tempts Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden; unlike Eve however, Digory rejects the offer. (Lewis's Perelandra also features a re-enactment of the same Biblical story, which in that book also ends with the tempter foiled and the fall avoided.)