Daniel Craig is being lined up for a job in Greta Gerwig’s new Narnia movie, her first directorial undertaking since her big success with Barbie and the primary product of a deal she signed with Netflix to make a minimum of two diversifications of CS Lewis’s fantasy novel sequence.
In accordance with Deadline, Craig has been provided a job within the movie, which is presently in manufacturing for a projected launch in autumn 2026. Whereas Netflix has not confirmed which novel is being tailored, it’s regarded as The Magician’s Nephew, which is listed on the Web Film Database as Gerwig’s subsequent undertaking.
Revealed in 1955, The Magician’s Nephew was the sixth in Lewis’s seven-novel sequence, however is the primary chronologically. It acts as an origins story for the celebrated wardrobe of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and chronicles the creation of Narnia by Aslan the lion. Two kids, Digory and Polly, are the novel’s central characters, with Digory’s uncle Andrew additionally enjoying a big function. Hypothesis has centred on Craig enjoying both Uncle Andrew or Aslan (the latter presumably being a voice function).
Netflix bought the rights to make movie and TV diversifications of the Narnia sequence in 2018 – and it’s the first time rights to all seven books have been held by a single firm. Lewis himself didn’t promote display rights to the books, believing it was not doable to make convincing diversifications. His property later had a rights settlement with Walden Media, which launched three Narnia movies – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Daybreak Treader – between 2005 and 2010. Nevertheless, the settlement ended after Daybreak Treader struggled on the field workplace, resulting in Lewis’s heirs trying elsewhere.
Whereas confirmed particulars of Gerwig’s undertaking are skinny on the bottom, Deadline reported that singer Charli xcx was underneath severe consideration for a job.
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