A New ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ Movie Is Coming to Netflix

There are seven books in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, and lots of extra variations of Lewis’ tales than that throughout movie, tv, radio, and theater. And there are about to be at the very least a pair extra.

Netflix acquired the rights to make motion pictures and exhibits primarily based on Lewis’ beloved youngsters’s literature sequence means again within the fall of 2018. They don’t have anything to indicate for it thus far, however in line with The Hollywood Reporter they’ve now acquired Greta Gerwig, actor-turned-director of the great Woman Chicken and Little Girls and the upcoming Barbie film, “connected to direct a characteristic movie” of Narnia.

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The latest Narnia adaptation produced three movies within the mid-2000s: 2005’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 2008’s Prince Caspian, and 2010’s The Voyage of the Daybreak Treader. The primary two have been directed by Andrew Adamson (the director of Shrek!) and launched by Disney, with the third directed by Michael Apted and launched by Fox. Mixed, the three movies grossed $537 million within the U.S. and $1.58 billion worldwide. These are strong numbers, though each the second and third movies dropped off sharply from the far stronger efficiency of the preliminary The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. After that, the franchise stalled out, and the rights to the property ultimately shifted to Netflix.

Their authentic bulletins about Narnia mentioned their aspirations to make motion pictures and TV exhibits out of Lewis’ idea a few group of English youngsters transported to a fantasy world the place they be a part of forces with a speaking lion to cease an evil witch. This newest replace from THR says that Gerwig is particularly concerned with characteristic movies. On the very least, it could actually be a significant departure as a director for Gerwig.