“This is a major creative responsibility — and a thrilling opportunity to bring one of Lewis’ most iconic characters to the big screen”, says the Fellowship for Performing Arts.
A scene of the ‘The Screwtape Letters’ play. / Photo: [link]Fellowship for Performing Arts[/link]
The New York City-based theatrical company, Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA) recently announced that it has secured the rights to adapt C.S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters into a feature film.
The FPA will produce this adaptation along with the C.S. Lewis Company, and they are “thrilled to be collaborating on this amazing project”, said FPA founder, Max McLean, in a statement.
“We are honored by the trust The C.S. Lewis Company has placed in us. This is a major creative responsibility — and a thrilling opportunity to bring one of Lewis’ most iconic characters to the big screen”, pointed out FPA’s executive producer, Ken Denison.
For Vincent Sieber-Smith, managing director of The C.S. Lewis Company and a producer of Netflix’s upcoming The Chronicles of Narnia, “FPA has long demonstrated a remarkable ability to enhance Lewis' legacy for new audiences through compelling, imaginative and faithful theatrical adaptations of his books”.
[photo_footer] A scene of the ‘The Screwtape Letters’ play. / Fellowship for Performing Arts.[/photo_footer]
“In the 1942 novel, Lewis creates a topsy-turvy, morally inverted universe seen through the eyes of ‘His Abysmal Sublimity, Screwtape’, a senior tempter in Hell mentoring his nephew, the novice tempter named Wormwood, in the subtle art of leading an unsuspecting human soul toward damnation”, reads the press release’s synopsis of the project.
The FPA has been touring with a stage adaptation of The Screwtape Letters since 2023, with great success. The tour will continue all across the US until the end of the year.
“Lewis didn’t shy away from the hard questions”, McLean said. “He understood the tension between what we feel and what we believe. He said if we feel but don’t act, eventually we become numb to both”, McLean told Christian Post.
This is not the first film to be featured by the FPA. In 2021, they released The Most Reluctant Convert, a film based on the successful play that they have been performing in theatres since 2016.
It tells the story of C. S. Lewis' journey of faith, with Max McLean as the renowned British thinker. The film was directed by Emmy and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Norman Stone. It was screened at over 85 cinemas across the UK and received praise from influential Christian thinkers, such as Os Guinness, Timothy Keller, and Philip Yancey.
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