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Recently we wondered whether moviegoers will be able to watch the ever-so-serious talking animals in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe without laughing inappropriately. Well, it turns out C.S. Lewis himself had reservations about the idea of live-action versions of his Narnia books. “Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare,” Lewis wrote in 1959 to a BBC producer, in a letter published by nthposition and linked to by Cinematical.
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