Richard Attenborough did the film Shadowlands about C. S. Lewis and the
grief at the end of his life when Joy died. That film (which I just saw
again last week!) is very good but quite wrong about a number of things
concerning Lewis. Also it received a lot of criticism about Lewis's
religious and moral crisis and the failure to see growth or
resolution--which Lewis did experience. It also failed to show almost
anything about the profoundly religious aspects of Lewis and Joy's
relationship.
I am saying all this to suggest that I have some real qualms about such a
project with Willimas and Attenborough teaming up to do a filmic treatment
of the later years, tinged no doubt with Freud. YIKES! if anything is in
the pipeline I hope they will consult a few experts on the topic who might
add a little balance to the discussion.
Hal Bush
Saint Louis University