'The Great Divorce' to Get Movie Treatment

Film rights to C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy secured by Beloved Pictures

by Mark Moring

Heaven has been depicted on the big screen before, but never quite like this — as the most beautiful landscape you've ever seen, but every blade of grass is so hard it actually hurts your feet to walk on them, and a single leaf so heavy you can't lift it.

Such is the creative depiction of heaven by C. S. Lewis in The Great Divorce–great fodder for a filmmaker with a rich imagination and a love for the work. And now it appears that the story has found just that.

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I have long cherished "The Great Divorce" as one of C.S. Lewis' finest and most thought provoking works.

In it, he deals with eternal choices with finesse and a depth of understanding that few of us attain in explaining the issues of heaven, hell, and judgment.

I would love to see the movie even though I cannot imagine how one could capture it nuances on film.

I can only hope that it would not suffer the same fate as the less spiritually significant "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I wondered how those images could be adequately depicted on the screen … and they were not.

I am hopeful here.