There are seven books in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, and lots of extra diversifications of Lewis’ tales than that throughout movie, tv, radio, and theater. And there are about to be at the least a pair extra.
Netflix acquired the rights to make films and reveals primarily based on Lewis’ beloved kids’s literature sequence means again within the fall of 2018. They don’t have anything to present for it to this point, however in accordance to The Hollywood Reporter they’ve now acquired Greta Gerwig, actor-turned-director of the great Lady Bird and Little Women and the upcoming Barbie film, “attached to direct a feature film” of Narnia.
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The most up-to-date 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 Dawn Treader. The first two had been directed by Andrew Adamson (the director of Shrek!) and launched by Disney, with the third directed by Michael Apted and launched by Fox. Combined, the three movies grossed $537 million within the U.S. and $1.58 billion worldwide. Those are stable 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 finally shifted to Netflix.
Their unique bulletins about Narnia mentioned their aspirations to make films and TV reveals out of Lewis’ idea a few group of English kids transported to a fantasy world the place they be part of forces with a speaking lion to cease an evil witch. This newest replace from THR says that Gerwig is particularly concerned with function movies. At the very least, it might definitely be a serious departure as a director for Gerwig.
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