Greta Gerwig's Narnia is on the way, and it's been confirmed that the first installment of the filmmaker's take on the franchise will have a theatrical release two months before it hits Netflix.
According to Variety, Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, originally scheduled to debut on Thanksgiving Day 2026, is now slated to open in theaters on February 12, 2027. The film will premiere on Netflix on April 2, 2027. The fantasy adventure epic, which stars Carey Mulligan, Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep and more will also have a special IMAX preview on February 10, 2027.
The Magician’s Nephew is the sixth book in the Chronicles of Narnia series and a prequel to the second book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was adapted as a film in 2005. It will center on anthropomorphic character Aslan the lion and his creation of Narnia.
In an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, Gerwig said she was a child when she "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," she continued. "It is the honor of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being. Because of C. S. 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... It transformed me."
Gerwig, who’s known for Lady Bird and Little Women, last directed 2023 blockbuster Barbie, which starred Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and grossed over $1 billion at the box office globally.
