Netflix Narnia Adaptation Considers Turning C.S. Lewis's Aslan Character Into a Female #Political
Sometimes there are early April stories so absurd that you hope they are just April Fool’s pranks, but unfortunately the idea that Netflix might decide to go with a female Aslan in their upcoming adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia appears to be very real.
The rumor had been percolating on the internet for a few days, but Deadline confirmed the news on Thursday, “Oscar winner Meryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan the Great Lion in Greta Gerwig and Netflix’s Narnia movie, we have confirmed with sources.”
Andreas Wiseman goes on to report, “We understand that they’re not quite at the offer stage yet, however.” 
Weisman observed, “In the novels, Aslan is a talking lion who serves as Narnia’s guardian and a guide for the human children. Generally portrayed as a male, Aslan was created as an allegory for Jesus by author C.S. Lewis.”
It is important to note that Wiseman does caution that not all internet rumors have been confirmed, “Nexus Point News was first with the Streep talks and also reported that the film will adapt the sixth novel in the Narnia series, The Magician’s Nephew, which chronologically takes place first in the series. The novel tells the origin of Narnia and is centered on Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, who discover the magical world through Digory’s uncle’s magic. The site reports that Aslan will be female in the Gerwig adaptation. We haven’t had those plot details confirmed yet.”
Weisman is hardly the first to incorrectly refer to Aslan as an allegory for Jesus. Lewis, such a stickler for word choice that he wrote an entire book on the subject, wrote in a letter, “The Narnian books are not as much allegory as supposal. ‘Suppose there were a Narnian world and it, like ours, needed redemption. What kind of incarnation and Passion might Christ be supposed to undergo there?’”
In other words, Aslan is not a symbolic representation of Jesus; he is Jesus, and Jesus is the Son of God. He literally lived as a male. Turning Aslan into a female isn’t like rebooting Ghostbusters or the Ocean’s series; it is fundamentally changing not just Lewis’s work but the Christian religion. It would be like turning Lucy Pevensie, one of children’s literature’s greatest female characters and someone who was possibly modeled after a real 15th century saint and has similarities to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus, into a boy.
There is no reason for Gerwig and Netflix to turn Aslan into a female. The Magician’s Nephew is, in part, about three worlds in various stages of decay. Charn has been destroyed through Jadis’s pride and lust for absolute power; Narnia is a new world that, despite Digory’s importation of Jadis, is initially innocent about evil and will remain “for many hundred years yet shall be a merry land”; and ours is somewhere in-between with a warning to the reader about our world going the way of Charn. If Netflix chooses to turn Aslan into a female, it will have missed the entire point of the book and the series. The good news is there is still time for them to stop this plan before it wrecks the whole series.
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