Netflix has just announced more details for the upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s beloved book, Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, from Director Greta Gerwig.
It becomes the first-ever adaptation of the novel, although the later books in the series were previously adapted for the big screen from 2005 to 2010 by Walden Media. The story will follow newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell in the lead roles; however, the all-star ensemble includes Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep.
Gerwig told Tudum, “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 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.”
It will be the first in a series of adaptations for Netflix from the Director and feature an original score by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. The Magician’s Nephew is produced by Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Vincent Sieber-Smith, and Gerwig, and executive produced by Patricia Whitcher and Douglas Gresham and Melvin Adams for the C. S. Lewis Estate. The film is co-produced by Christine Crais.
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will be released in cinemas on February 12th 2027, and then on Netflix on April 2nd later that year.
