Narnia's Aslan as a Female?
“Apparently an offer has been made to Meryl Streep to portray Aslan, as in the Christ figure in the Narnia stories, in an upcoming Chronicles of Narnia movie” - Gavin Ortlund
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Disney's remake of the "Snow White" story isn't going very well. Audiences do indeed care when beloved stories are remade in the modern image, so if you want to write a different story, do so, but give it its own name.
But that gives away a lot of what's going on; movie-makers and others know that a "woke" story isn't going to resonate with most fans, and so they're attaching the old name to the new story. We just need to be wise to them. A light-hearted way of phrasing things, IMO, is that too many new college graduates with a B average in English think they are better writers than Shakespeare, Twain, and so on. Hopefully dismal ticket sales will help to disabuse them of this.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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