Disney Interactive released details about its upcoming game The Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
The game will be released this holiday season for the Xbox, PS2, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PSP, Game Boy Advance and the PC.
Now it may have escaped us all when we read it as children, but the Chronicles of Narnia books by C. S. Lewis are widely understood to be Christian allegory.
You know those Hollywood pitches in which the script writer says, "Think of it as Ghost Busters meets Sex in the City!" and everybody goes "Ahh, we get it now!"
Think of the Chronicles of Narnia movie as a "Passion of the Christ" for kids. ("Ahh, we get it now!") Think of the game as the first Christian triple-A game title in the history of the business. Will preachers, pastors and priests start pitching this game to their flocks in the same way that they helped drive attendance to Passion of the Christ? Will there be LAN parties after mass in the church basement?
