Greta Gerwig Will Direct Two Of Netflix's 'Chronicles of Narnia' Movies

The five years of development have felt like an etumnusty

Greta Gerwig is moving from Barbieland to Narnia, between two very different kinds of magical wardrobes.

The Barbie director will be writing and directing at least two The Chronicles of Narnia films for Netflix. The streamer reached a multi-year deal in 2018 with the C.S. Lewis Company to create multiple television shows and movies based on the author’s novels. It seems movies have taken the lead over these five years for such news to be out like this.

Mark Gordan, Douglas Gresham, and Vincent Sieber are currently set to serve as executive producers on films and producers on any upcoming Narnia shows. Coco co-writer Matthew Aldrich is the "creative architect" overseeing the development of all Narnia projects. The most recent iteration of the franchise was three Walden Media films, two distributed by Disney with 2005’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and 2008’s Prince Caspian directed by Andrew Adamson and then Fox distributed Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 2010, directed by Michael Apted. And yes that means the films would eventually be united as distributors when Disney bought Fox 2000 and 20th Century Fox in 2019. It had been discussed that Joe Johnston would direct a Silver Chair adaptation as his last film, but that didn’t end up materializing before the rights lapsed.

Barbie releases in theaters on July 21.

Source: New Yorker