The closet is officially open again and this time Greta Gerwig is the protagonist.
Netflix has finally confirmed the title and release dates of Gerwig’s long-awaited film Chronicles of Narnia reboot, and fantasy fans already sound emotionally sick online.
The first film will be called Narnia: the wizard’s nephew and hits theaters on February 12, 2027, before landing on Netflix on April 2.
And yes, the cast is full.
Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and Denise Gough will appear in the fantasy epic based on the classic books by CS Lewis.
Gerwig, who writes, directs and produces the film, got deeply personal in explaining why this story is important to her.
“I was a little girl when I first read The Magician’s Nephew and fell in love with the magnificently improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life,” she said.
“I didn’t know I would grow up to make movies… but a universe built from music is an idea that always lived in my heart.”
Unlike the previous narnia films, Gerwig’s film begins at the beginning of the timeline, exploring Aslan’s creation of Narnia, essentially the origin story of the fantasy franchise.
In other words: Greta Gerwig is about to make an entire generation cry for a lion again.
