Greta Gerwig is ready to write down and direct at the least two Chronicles of Narnia films for Netflix, a property the streamer acquired years in the past.
Everybody expects Greta Gerwig’s Barbie to be an enormous hit, but it surely appears to be like just like the writer-director is likely to be dipping her toe into one other huge franchise quickly. Tucked away in a big New Yorker piece about the way forward for Mattel movies comes a point out that Gerwig’s subsequent job is to write down and direct at the least two Chronicles of Narnia movies for Netflix.
The streamer, which is brief on tentpole tasks primarily based on present IP, acquired the rights to C.S. Lewis’ collection of basic novels approach again in 2018. That they had beforehand been tailored as a collection of three movies (which, infamously, Andrew Garfield wasn’t thought-about good-looking sufficient for). The primary, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, had been an unlimited hit, grossing over $745 million worldwide (and being perpetually immortalized within the SNL sketch “Lazy Sunday”), however the sequel Prince Caspian, made considerably much less, $419 million. Disney made the primary two films, however the third, The Voyage of the Daybreak Treader, was made by Fox (satirically acquired by Disney later) and made about as a lot as Prince Caspian, however that was it for the big-screen collection.
After all, Gerwig has an excellent pedigree relating to this form of factor, having made the profitable 2019 model of Little Girls. With Barbie getting nice buzz, Gerwig is in excessive demand, so it’s not stunning she’s being given the keys to an enormous franchise. On condition that her films have been so profitable on the large display, one may assume she’d go for one other theatrical tentpole. Nonetheless, Netflix may additionally give her the time, assets and freedom she must make these new diversifications into one thing distinctive. One imagines that with new expertise, Aslan will look much more spectacular now than he did again when Liam Neeson voiced him. These had been cutting-edge films again within the day, however Gerwig, probably, might make definitive diversifications of Lewis’ novels.
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