CS Lewis' family 'very upset' at Meryl Streep as Aslan, friend says: 'Going to destroy the brand'

A friend of C.S. Lewis' stepson claimed...that members of the late author's family are "very upset" by Meryl Streep's casting as Aslan in Netflix's upcoming Narnia adaptation... Baehr...explained that the casting of a female actor to portray Aslan presents "lots of issues"... "One, it's beloved...But there's a deeper issue, which is the theological issue," he said, noting the serious theological implications of tinkering with the gender identity of Aslan — a character Lewis described as the incarnation of Christ in a world like Narnia. Because...the whole process leads toward The Last Battle, and The Last Battle represents Jesus in Heaven,"...