The 'Barbie' director is attached to helm a pair of Narnia films for Netflix.
Acclaimed director Greta Gerwig is preparing for her biggest venture yet into blockbuster territory with the release of Warner Bros.' Barbie. Gerwig is set to follow up her doll-centric adventure by heading through the wardrobe into The Chronicles of Narnia, and recently revealed that she is scared of what this could mean.
Gerwig is currently attached to direct two films for Netflix based on the Narnia book franchise created by C.S. Lewis, and told Total Film that she "didn't know" if her take on the snowy world of Narnia would be similar to how she handled Barbie. "I haven't even really started wrapping my arms around it. But I'm properly scared of it, which feels like a good place to start," Gerwig said. "I think when I'm scared, it's always a good sign.
"I hope to make all different kinds of movies in the course of the time I get to make movies, which – it's a long time, but it's also limited. I want to do big things and small things and everywhere in between, and having another big canvas is exciting and also daunting."It Has Been a Long Time Since a Narnia Film Graced Screens Very few details about Gerwig's Narnia films have been released.
The first big-screen adaptation of the seven-book saga, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, was released by Disney in 2005. The film grossed nearly $750 million worldwide and led Disney to release a sequel, Prince Caspian, three years later. A third film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, was released in 2010 by 20th Century Fox after Disney dropped out following a budget dispute with Narnia production banner Walden Media.
Following Voyage, fans of the fantasy franchise began clamoring for additional adaptations, given that there were still four Narnia books that had yet to be put to the screen. While there was a deal at TriStar in 2017 to adapt a version of The Silver Chair, this changed when Netflix purchased the franchise rights in 2018 and announced plans to adapt its own films and TV series.
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