{"id":828,"date":"2007-02-06T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html"},"modified":"2007-02-06T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T15:10:00","slug":"cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis&#8217; &#8216;Letters&#8217; Coming to the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More powerful than Wolverine and more charismatic than Magneto, the man best known for producing the \u201cX-Men\u201d series of films, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/192\/story_19211_1.html\" target=\"_new\">Ralph Winter<\/a>, has achieved something even Professor Xavier couldn\u2019t dream of accomplishing. Variety has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117958443.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_new\">Winter will at long last be producing<\/a> a big screen version of another C.S. Lewis best seller, the Christian classic \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Screwtape_Letters\" target=\"_new\">The Screwtape Letters.<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walden.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Walden Media<\/a>, which also developed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/narnia\" target=\"_new\">The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe<\/a>,\u201d will be involved in the development of the project, as will Lewis\u2019 stepson, Douglas Gresham.<\/p>\n<p>The story of a senior devil named Screwtape and his letters to his nephew Wormwood is an unlikely story for a film adaptation, since the book is essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/74\/story_7427_1.html\">a long monologue<\/a> in which Screwtape advises Wormwood on how to corrupt a recent Christian convert. But while \u201cScrewtape\u201d doesn\u2019t offer a lot of action, the possibilities for some awesome casting exist. My personal vote would be for Clive Owen or Edward Norton as Screwtape, and perhaps someone like Ryan Gosling or Orlando Bloom as Wormwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More powerful than Wolverine and more charismatic than Magneto, the man best known for producing the \u201cX-Men\u201d series of films, Ralph Winter, has achieved something even Professor Xavier couldn\u2019t dream of accomplishing. Variety has announced that Winter will at long last be producing a big screen version of another C.S. Lewis best seller, the Christian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>C.S. Lewis&#039; &#039;Letters&#039; Coming to the Big Screen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"C.S. Lewis&#039; &#039;Letters&#039; Coming to the Big Screen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More powerful than Wolverine and more charismatic than Magneto, the man best known for producing the \u201cX-Men\u201d series of films, Ralph Winter, has achieved something even Professor Xavier couldn\u2019t dream of accomplishing. Variety has announced that Winter will at long last be producing a big screen version of another C.S. Lewis best seller, the Christian&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-02-06T15:10:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kris Rasmussen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"C.S. Lewis' 'Letters' Coming to the Big Screen","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"C.S. Lewis' 'Letters' Coming to the Big Screen","og_description":"More powerful than Wolverine and more charismatic than Magneto, the man best known for producing the \u201cX-Men\u201d series of films, Ralph Winter, has achieved something even Professor Xavier couldn\u2019t dream of accomplishing. Variety has announced that Winter will at long last be producing a big screen version of another C.S. Lewis best seller, the Christian&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2007-02-06T15:10:00+00:00","author":"Kris Rasmussen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html","name":"C.S. Lewis' 'Letters' Coming to the Big Screen","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-02-06T15:10:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-06T15:10:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/667195b00ac2263e0f6700056170bbf8"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/02\/cs-lewis-letters-coming-to-big-screen.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"C.S. Lewis&#8217; &#8216;Letters&#8217; Coming to the Big Screen"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/667195b00ac2263e0f6700056170bbf8","name":"Kris Rasmussen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/2e7\/2e7278d93dd11c6aad2c82da37f0d657x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/2e7\/2e7278d93dd11c6aad2c82da37f0d657x96.jpg","caption":"Kris Rasmussen"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/krasmussen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}