240. How Could We Adapt C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy for the Screen?

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Nov. 29 was C. S. Lewis’s birthday. The famous author and scholar was born 126 years ago in 1898. And while fans eagerly await whatever director Greta Gerwig and Netflix might do with Narnia, we decided to ask: how would we take Lewis’s other fantasy tales, the Ransom Trilogy, to adapt for the screen?

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Yes, many know the series as the Space Trilogy. But some scholar-fans (Stephen included) believe that term contradicts a key theme of Lewis’s world.

Quotes and notes

• BBC releasing a radio dramatization of the Space Trilogy
• The Devil Went Down to Venus: Lessons from the Un-Man, Bethel McGrew
• Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy

1. How on Mars to adapt Out of the Silent Planet?

2. How on Venus could we adapt Perelandra?

3. How on Earth to adapt That Hideous Strength?

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