No, Gaddafi didn't bomb London. He just caused a plane to explode over Lockerbie, a sleepy little Scottish town. What did he have against Lockerbie?

That said, the evacuations of WW2 are the strongest reasons possible for the Pevensies as a family stopping with a crusty old Professor out in the country. I wouldn't let my children stop with an aged relative unless they were invited, and not even then if I did not know the relative well. As salutary as such visits can be, I'd still be afraid of their being a nuisance to the aged relative.

ever since reading the forward from the official movie companion for LWW where Perry Moore talks about how he stopped a modern adaption of LWW from being made and thus Walden's LWW was made, I've been nervous that someone might try to do that again. but I'm not biased either way

I am afraid I am biased against a more modern day version. Not only because there hasn't been anything like the evacuations from London since 1939. But also because of Magician's Nephew, which is set in the early 1900's. Fifty years is reasonable for the Professor to be around when the Pevensies come to stay. A hundred years is really too much.

And where would MN be without the Cabbie, the Cabbie's horse, the Hansom cab, servants, the lamp post and Aunt Letitia? I know that there are some things, like Mabel's all-but fatal illness, or Uncle Andrew's selfishness that are timeless. But MN was otherwise so Victorian in setting (no reference to our Southern neighbours) that to do it any other way would spoil both the film and the series in my opinion.

You might as well suggest setting Narnia in some other war-torn country. Libya for example. I think Perry Moore got it right.

As for Mabel's incurable cancer, I have a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. Her little girl is currently going through exactly what Digory was going through in MN. We have hope and we have prayers, and it's true that the prognosis isn't as bad as it would have been a century ago, but cancer takes lives even today.

True it could be cancer, but it never specified... I can understand assuming it's cancer due to Lewis's experiences, but it's just as likely to be an infection or a virus. I had always assumed it to be rather flu-like myself, and if we assume it's not cancer, then it would make more sense in the 1900's than today, since we now have many more medicines for diseases that once killed. If it is cancer it might work, though she'd be in the hospital more and at "home" less...

Oh, really, they wouldn't do it right. In the 70s LWW, it all was switched to 70s America. The opening shows only the journey and it shows up really sadly. When you see the station, you start to wonder what's happened. And there's no rational explanation. It'd all mess up.

I wanted to vote for "No, I don't mind the idea, but they probably wouldn't do it right" but then I figured it would be almost impossible to do it right. I have no idea how they could do it and still get the main plot and themes right. And anyways, people act differently nowadays. For example, if you were in the middle of the woods, you wouldn't go off with a strange person you had just met. During the time of LWW people could be trusted more so it's not as strange when Lucy went off with Tumnus.

Oh i don't know about that. Little kids would still do that i think.

I don't mind the idea, but it never going to happen (thank goodness). Next thing you know, the Pevensies will be living in America, and I can't even imagen what would come after that.

I can see a skit of narnia set in modern times on youtube, but in the movies? I don't think so

I voted "no, how dare you even mention such an idea" the fact that LWW is set in WWII plays a large part to the plot I think and having the rest of the books set in the 40s is very important to me. In modern times it would be different and in my opinion just wrong, I should be very disappointed if they should make a movie of it set in modern times.I mean it's like setting Anne of Green Gables in modern times, or like setting A Christmas Carol in modern times, it's possible and it might even work, but it would just be wrong. I may come out rather strongly with this, and it is just my personal opinion, but I should really be horrified if a modern Narnia is made

I voted No. How dare they? I think they could make it work in term of the plot okay. But setting the story in modern times would force them to change the characters too much. Characters to some extent are products of their environment. When and when we live affects the way we view the world. Eustace before his undragoning is a prime example of this. Many of his attitudes and beliefs (like when he says that perspiring means people need less water since it cools them down) are a result of living when he did.