Some suits promote a film about Narnia; I go rapidly balmier and balmier

I'd like to say, for the record, that I was already deeply ambivalent and rather apprehensive about the forthcoming Narnia movie before I discovered that the firm that came up with the creepy, church-conscripting, journal-spamming, "spontaneous" word-of-email marketing for Mel Gibson's painfest filmic thing will be handling the publicity for what they're calling "[The Other Film] for kids".

*puts head down on desk*

Some of my anxiety is purely aesthetic. A satisfying Narnia film would be difficult to achieve, and I don't in the least trust Disney to produce one. I fear something like the first Harry Potter movie - a movie that's been crammed with episodes from the book without regard to pacing or overall story.

Visually, I think Narnia would be harder to render than Middle Earth, because the source doesn't have the same depth of detail to the description. In Peter Jackson's LOTR films, even if something isn't rendered as you pictured it, you can often still understand how it might be like that. (That's also the case with some of the storytelling choices. Not all, but some.) My Cair Paravel and your Cair Paravel, however, are probably much further apart than your Hobbiton and my Hobbiton.

(I'll just interject here that for years I pictured Turkish delight as looking like fried chicken. I don't know why; I didn't even like fried chicken. Still don't.)

So, even among people who like TLTWATW on any level whatsover, there's vast potential for disappointment. And everyone who's ever felt offended by, attacked by, or just plain annoyed with Lewis is going to feel rubbed raw all over again. And the evangimental salesfolk are going to go into overdrive about the Tremendous Sales Sharing Opportunity!! And I am not at all looking forward to hearing the rants or reading the paeans.