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The Horse and His Boy dedication (1954)<\/p>\nThe Horse and His Boy dedication (1954)<\/p>\n
The families of David and Douglas Gresham, stepsons of C.S. Lewis, have released an official statement via Netflix about Writer\/Director Greta Gerwig\u2019s Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew. This comes days after Movieguide founder Dr. Ted Baehr made headlines by reporting the family had spoken to him about the film.<\/p>\n
The Statement<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom our ongoing conversations with Greta Gerwig, we have personally witnessed her sincere passion for the Narnia series. Her life-long love of C.S. Lewis is apparent to everyone involved with this film. We saw this enthusiasm during our visit to the set in London. We are thrilled to be working with such a talented and accomplished director and production team, and are keen to continue working with them on future projects. Our vision is for this movie to be enormously successful and for this calibre of talent to be applied to all of the Chronicles of Narnia.\u201d<\/p>\n
NarniaWeb has also been in contact with the family, who told us they have not yet seen any footage or heard any audio from the movie.<\/p>\n
Comments from Dr. Baehr<\/p>\n
Last week, Dr. Ted Baehr told CBN<\/a> that members of Lewis\u2019 family were \u201cvery upset\u201d about Meryl Streep voicing Aslan. Baehr said they were \u201cconcerned about it, because they\u2019re worried that it\u2019s going to destroy the brand,\u201d and claimed that they were attempting to \u201cregain control\u201d of the company that manages the literary and media rights to Lewis\u2019 works.<\/p>\n Baehr has longstanding personal ties to Lewis\u2019s family, particularly through Douglas Gresham, who is godfather to at least one of Ted\u2019s grandchildren. He was also president of the company that produced the 1979 animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (which he says Greta Gerwig \u201cloved<\/a>\u201c).<\/p>\n Background: The Family<\/p>\n C.S. Lewis had no biological children. Through his marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, he became stepfather to her two sons, David and Douglas Gresham <\/a>(to whom The Horse and His Boy is dedicated to).<\/p>\n David died in 2014. Douglas, as most our readers know well, has spent decades associated with the C.S. Lewis Company as a creative consultant and was closely involved with 2005-2010 Narnia films. He retains an executive producer credit on Netflix\u2019s Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew.<\/p>\n