I've been heartened to know that Greta Gerwig has been reading C.S. Lewis's works beyond Narnia, and I recently ran across a tweet featuring a video where Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan are talking about a scene with Jo in Little Women where one of the lines was actually taken from another book by Louisa May Alcott.
It made me wonder — could other lines from Lewis's work find their way into Gerwig's adaptation of Narnia? Is there a line from another of Lewis's books that seems as though it belongs in Narnia, or could have been spoken by a particular character? Do you think think drawing directly on Lewis's other books would be a good thing or a bad thing?
I'm intrigued by the idea: there is so much in Lewis's other books that reminds me of Narnia and deepens my understanding of the series' themes. But I think it would have to be done very carefully.
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I really like the idea in principle, as it could be a great way to expand our the dialogue from the books, whilst also adding greater depth and meaning to the movies themselves.
I guess though I don't have an intimate enough knowledge of CS Lewis other writings (particularly his narrative fictions) to easily think of lines which could be readily transposed from one book to the other.
In terms of his non-fiction writing though, many of his most famous quotes would thematically map quite well into Narnia ("made for another world " etc) however I didn't know which characters could most effectively deliver those lines without ending up sounding overtly like CS Lewis himself.
The professor in LWW already serves as the Lewis surrogate character for that story, and already has plenty of dialogue which mirrors Lewis' own writings, therefore I was thinking that maybe the best place to start would be with the younger Digory in MN.
You would probably need to strip the lines right back down, to avoid it coming across like Digory is a walking-talking CS Lewis quote machine, and to render the dialogue in rougher forms, such that they would seem more like ideas that a child was conceiving of for the first time, but I think it could work well.