and that lion’s name was Aslan. Rewatch the 2005 film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—which is also a Disney film—the next time you get a chance.

There has, of course, already been one popular Chronicles of Narnia film series—the Disney movies which were ... According to a recent report, Aslan the lion—the Jesus figure of Narnia ...

Disney While the parallels between Aslan and the story of Jesus Christ are undeniable, Lewis himself repudiated those who said Aslan was an allegory for Christianity’s Lord. He instead referred ...

Not only is Aslan depicted as male in Lewis’ source ... but it doesn’t make promoting a film any easier. Disney’s Snow White was embroiled in a media storm years before it even premiered ...

Walt Disney’s creative genius and his personal ... religious scholar Reza Aslan talks about his new CNN series, “Believer,” in which he’s focusing on fringe elements of certain religions ...

but the Netflix production is likely to benefit from technological advances and a higher budget than the BBC version from the late 1980s which relied on an animatronic Aslan. Disney has ...

Gerwig has form as a refreshing heretic and while a gender-swapped Aslan might appear a sop to the “woke ideology” that has caused Disney such creative and commercial difficulties, I applaud ...