Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ project locks cast, to release in February 2027
Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia: The Magician's Nephew releases in 2027, starring Meryl Streep and Daniel Craig. The film, based on C.S. Lewis’ work, explores Narnia’s origin, with Gerwig calling the project both “honour” and “intimidating”
Los Angeles: Hollywood director Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film ‘Narnia’ movie has finally locked its title, cast, and release date. The director, who is known for ‘Barbie’, has been attached to the project since 2020, two years after it was announced by Netflix.
The first of the new adaptations of C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s book series will hit cinemas on 12 February, 2027, reports ‘Female First UK’. The film is titled ‘Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’, and following previous speculation, it has been confirmed the film, which will drop on Netflix on 2 April, 2027, will have a star-studded cast including the likes of Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Mackey and Denise Gough. Greta, 42, hailed the project the “honour of a lifetime”.
She said in a statement, “I was a child when I first read The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life. I didn’t know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart. It is the honour of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being. Because of CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds and adventure”. “I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic. That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me”, she added.
As per ‘Female First UK’, Greta will also serve as writer and producer, as well as director. The Magician’s Nephew, which was published in May 1955, was the sixth book published in the seven-novel series but in recent years has served as the first volume in the tale.
It is set 1,000 years before the events of the most famous of the stories, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and tells of how Aslan the lion created Narnia.
After it was confirmed Greta would be helming Narnia, the director admitted she felt some “terror” and found the idea of the project “intimidating”.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4, she said, “I’m slightly in the place of terror because I really do have such reverence for ‘Narnia’. I loved Narnia so much as a child, [and] as an adult, CS Lewis as a thinker and a writer. I’m intimidated by doing this. It’s something that feels like a worthy thing to be intimidated by.
As a non-British person, I feel a particular sense of wanting to do it correctly, it’s like when Americans do Shakespeare, there’s a slight feeling of reverence and as if maybe we should treat it with extra care. It is not our countryman”.
Andrew Wyatt is working on music for the movie with his regular collaborator Mark Ronson and previously teased people will be “happy” with Greta’s vision.
