When martin Martin Luther isn't lambasting semi-Pelagians or eating lunch with a large tankard of beer at his elbow, he is keeping his ear to the ground for the latest movie news. Therefore, it's no surprise that Herr Luther broke the news (to me, anyway) that C.S. Lewis's masterpiece, The Screwtape Letters, will be coming to the big screen. Luther comments:
Yes: First it was The Chronicles of Narnia. Now The Screwtape Letters—C.S. Lewis' often-imitated but never equalled epistolary masterpiece—is coming to a theater near you at some point in the not-too-distant future, God willing...This sounds...intriguing, if not altogether promising. As you probably know, The Screwtape Letters are just what they sound like: a series of letters...written by a couple of witty-but-evil demons as they try to dominate a human soul. (OK, maybe you couldn't have guessed the latter part from the title.)
I am happy to know that Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis' stepson, will be one of the producers of the film, and hopefully will keep the production true to the vision of the finest Christian apologist of the twentieth century (even though not a Lutheran!).
Needless to say, this is a case where reading the book first is really imperative. Hollywood will have to make-do considerably in order to translate Lewis's fiendishly brilliant letters into "a movie" as we typically think of one. Devilish fisticuffs, anyone?
1 comments:
Wow, now there's a challenge... It'll be interesting, but I have NO idea of how they will make the book work as a movie...
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