Gollum Plays Screwtape!

Focus on the Family Radio Theatre today released a new dramatization of C.S. Lewis' novel, The Screwtape Letters.

Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham, introduces the program.

Screwtape is played by Andy Serkis, a.k.a. "Gollum" from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I'm already a fan of the 1990 Audio Literature production with John Cleese as Screwtape. (And no, he does not begin it with, "And now for something completely different.") Radio Theatre's production is not merely an audio book, but a full dramatization with music, sound effects, and names for all the previously unnamed characters such as Wormwood's "patient," now called "John Hamilton."

Might Serkis opt to change Screwtape's regular greeting of "My Dear Wormwood" to "My precioussss?"