The True Voice of Aslan

Posted on November 2, 2026 
Filed under Culture wars, Opinion

“The announcement that Greta Gerwig has cast Meryl Streep to provide the voice of Aslan in the upcoming film adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew has generated no small amount of controversy.

Not surprisingly, heated discussions are running on religious, cultural, and ethical lines. There are also conversations about artistic integrity, fairness, limitations in appropriating and adapting literature, and honouring the original intention of authors. This controversy is not likely to dissipate any time soon and will probably reach a peak of intensity once the movie is released early in 2027.

Before this happens, it is worth considering how C.S. Lewis depicts the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia. …”

– At The Gospel Coalition Canada, Steven D. West argues that there is no substitute for reading C.S. Lewis yourself to see how he portrayed Aslan.