Christian backlash has followed Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Netflix Narnia film, with critics calling it a ‘blasphemous’ gender swap.
Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child-psychology and decided what age-group I’d write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out “allegories” to embody them. This is all pure moonshine.
~ C. S. Lewis, “C. S. Lewis on Writing the Chronicles of Narnia” https://www.epm.org/resources/2002/Oct/28/c-s-lewis-writing-chronicles-narnia/