Make Your Voices Heard
One of NarniaWeb’s stated missions is amplify the voices of readers who love The Chronicles of Narnia books. Over the past few days, we have seen many members of our community express a desire to make their concerns known about the recent Aslan casting report.
Below is some publicly available contact information for people in key Narnia-related positions. If you choose to reach out, please represent this community with calm, compassion, and respect for the cast, crew, and staff. This is not optional.
Mark Gordon (Producer)
MARK GORDON PICTURES
2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 1000, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Amy Pascal (Producer)
PASCAL PICTURES
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
Vincent Sieber (Producer)
MIDNIGHT ROAD ENTERTAINMENT
10866 Wilshire Blvd, 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Instagram: @vincentsieber
C.S. Lewis Company
- Melvin Adams (Director of The C.S. Lewis Company): @mervadams59 on Instagram
- Rachel Churchhill: rachelchurchill@narnia.com
THE C.S. LEWIS COMPANY LTD
Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London, NW1 3ER
Netflix Public Relations
- Emily Feingold (Vice President, Communications): efeingold@netflix.com
- Sabryna Phillips (Director, Film Publicity): sphillips@netflix.com
NETFLIX
5808 Sunset Boulevard, 12th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025
We’re working on more opportunities to elevate fan voices in the coming weeks, so please continue to share your thoughts in the NarniaWeb Discussion Forum and Facebook Group.
I love this!!!! Thank you, Narniaweb! I would be very interested to see if Narnia fans move in a coordinated fashion with this. I’m definitely going to dive into the forums and discuss! Let’s do this!
Brilliant! Sent an email. Appreciate this. Let’s all do our part to not let this travesty take place.
Might it be best to wait until we know more about the nature of discussions with Meryl? Some have speculated we don’t know the whole picture – Greta may have something unexpected in mind. How much has really been confirmed?
My fear is that the production is deliberately provoking Narnia fans to discredit ourselves with our outraged response to their purposely misleading casting news. If we can be labeled “toxic fans,” this will give them leeway to disrupt and subvert Lewis’s works in other, subtler ways.
This is a grand idea. Perhaps it will make a difference. I’m willing to try. I want to be excited for this film again. And as the post says, we ought to be calm, compassionate, and respectful. I would also advise anyone who writes a letter or email to not using political language or clichés and buzzwords like “woke.” That sort of thing will only be a distraction, and I expect will also cause its recipient to ignore anything else you have to say. Just speak graciously, truthfully, and from the heart, which will be far more impactful, if there’s any hope of being heard.
Thank you Narniaweb. I’ve been feeling helpless since the rumour came out so I will at least try making a difference by sending a couple of letters!
I agree with @Forrest! No political language or things that will make them right us off without hearing what we have to say. Remember: Letters are more impactful than comments on social media or emails. So if you’re able, communicate through the mail
We love Aslan the way he is!
Ian – we will have to go out of our way to make sure we’re being gracious, kind, and respectful to make sure we’re not labelled as such.
By all reports, Streep hasn’t been offered the role yet. So even by chance, this is all a huge misunderstanding, at least they’ll know that the movie they’re making matters to fans.
We have such a wonderful community and I hope Netflix can recognize the difference between those who are more politically motivated and those who are genuine Narnia fans. We have real issues with changing Aslan to be a female lion but it’s not because we’re driven by political agendas!
A splendid idea! Hopefully this will turn the tide a bit.
Yes, let all our words sound reasonable, calm, caring and patient with the people we write to 🙂
No need to offend them.
This isn’t an opportunity to vent/express our anger. That will only be counter productive 🙂
In terms of impact, I agree that receiving just 100 letters in the mail would send a far more powerful message than seeing 1,000’s of signatures on a petition or comments on a fan page.
Let’s all put some extra effort into communicating that we want to see these books adapted faithfully by sending a respectful letter or two.
I’ve dreamed about seeing the scene of Aslan creating Narnia in The Magician’s Nephew on screen for so many years! I understand it can’t be exactly the way I imagine it, but would it be too much trouble to give Aslan a mane? There’s a thread in the Narniaweb forum at the moment where they’re making a list of every mention of the mane in the book series. I don’t think anyone’s ever pictured him without a mane before. The book also describes Aslan having “the deepest, wildest voice you ever heard.” I know Meryl Streep can sound regal, but I wouldn’t exactly describe her voice that way.
this is ridiculous! you guys are judging and “taking actions” on rumors and things you don’t have the bigger picture on. absolute madness. really sad to see. don’t judge it before you see the end result!
For those wanting to post letters, the ones with CA are in the USA.