Criticism
After the release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, rumors flew that Walden Media was a means for fulfilling Anschutz's Christian agenda:
We've never had a conversation about religion with him. Period, says David Weil, chief executive officer for the Anschutz Film Group. We all come from different religious backgrounds here. We all believe in a family values approach to positive messages—but religious orientation doesn't factor into it.'"
In July and August 2007, Walden Media came under fire from fans of The Dark Is Rising book series for liberties the company is purported to have taken with the plot in its forthcoming movie of the same title. As one critic noted:
"During filming in Bucharest, Romania there was a joke on The Dark Is Rising set that only three things have been changed from the original 1973 novel: the nationality of lead character Will Stanton, changed from English to American; his age changed from 11 to 13; and everything else that happens in the story. A solo quest by an 11-year-old is no longer solo; family values have been deemed out of date—the happy, loving Stanton family rewritten dysfunctional; a series of five books bereft of a single love interest has been re-imagined with the lead character chasing the fairer sex, pleading in the trailer 'I can't save the world! I don't even know how to talk to a girl!' Angered, disgusted fans are reporting little interest in their hero’s new, most ordinary of plights."
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