On a similar theme to Gelfond's quotes, one of the lines from this weeks Press Release which stood out the most was the claim that Narnia will be "a feature film unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard before"

Its a similarly bold claim to make as some of Gelfond's, and one that's much less attributable to the over-excited perspective of one IMAX CEO.

Its a line that makes me think of movies such as Fury Road, Tron Legacy, Sin City, 300, or Speed Racer - the sorts of films which really went for broke on the big, game-changing aesthetic designs.... The thing is though, nothing we have seen from the filming of Narnia so far suggests anything remotely like that. If anything, it all looks to be fairly traditional and conventional film-making so far, though admittedly we've only really seen a handful of sequences play out.

Perhaps they mean this statement in more of an avant garde type of uniqueness, maybe something more of a Tree of Life or The Fountain type of "unlike anything you've seen before"... but since i've definitely seen those two movies before, i'm guessing it can;t be anything like those films either.

Sure the Creation of Narnia scene almost demands an experimental, and completely out-there audio-visual aesthetic with a Singing Lion and all, but the rest of the story is actually much more grounded, and necessarily so to make the impact of that scene the more profound, therefore im super intrigued to see how this all plays out.

I've been wanting to post about this since the news came out and just have not had the time. Thanks snowstorm for shutting down my life.... I can finally get in here.  

So my first thought is that this is the kind of spoiler-ish thing I actually like to know about before going in to see the movie. I cannot imagine walking in to see Narnia and getting hit in the fact with some unexpected psychedelic rock. Go go acid trips from the 60s and 70s, woohoo!  

Second thought, where in the movie is this going to be? Like, the witnessing the creation of Narnia to In a Gadda Da Vida? Because I would object to that. Strongly. Object to that.

But the biggest reaction I had to this news, was not so much how it will affect MN, but rather how it will affect LWW. Had MN been a much more traditional adaptation, I would assume LWW would follow suit. But I have a strong suspicion that many of these decisions being made for MN, were made for LWW instead and then they applied to MN. I don't think Gerwig wanted to make another typical adaptation of LWW. Both BBC and Walden followed the book pretty close. I think she wants to her adaptation to stand out (and I'm running with the assumption that Gerwig is going to follow up MN with LWW.)

As others have noted, the music choice from the 60s and 70s is interesting considering the movie is in the 50s,

The more I see, the more I agree we're going to get a very stylized version of this movie and I'm intrigued (right now). Somewhere between Metropolis and The Greatest Showman. But as many of you have already said, I could see this going horribly wrong in a hurry.