Douglas Adams, Narnia, and Trailers

A few interesting movie tidbits: Joel Greengrass writes "Final post-production has been completed on the long awaited documentary, 'Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams.' Narrated by Neil Gaiman, the film is a tribute documentary about the life, loves, and passions, of the greatest sci fi comedy writer ever, Douglas Adams. The film will be available for sale on August 4 at douglasadams.com." Reader The_Shadows writes "Sci-fi Storm and Scfi.com's Scifi-wire are reporting that Walden Media exercised options for feature-length, big screen versions of the Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis. They have also found an Emmy award winning writer (Ann Peacock) to adapt the most famous book, 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.'" And finally, there's an interesting piece about the process of turning a two-hour movie into a two-minute trailer.

Comments

Re:The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[Jonny Ringo]

Sooo why didn't you stop after the first one?

ya big idiot.

Re:Narnia

[junkgrep]

Describing atheism as a worldview is like describing "non-tennis playing" as a sport.
I'd also distinguish Tolkien's works from Lewis' Christian allegories. Tolkien despised the use of obvious allegory, Lewis embraced it. Calling them both "Christians" doesn't do justice to their complex opinions on the matter of its relation to fantasy fiction.