Greta Gerwig's “Narnia” Movie Reveals Title and 2027 Release Date
Greta Gerwig's “Narnia” Movie Reveals Title and 2027 Release Date
Jack SmartFri, May 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM UTC
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Greta Gerwig (left); Aslan as depicted in Disney's 2005 adaptation of 'Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' (right)Credit: Brianna Bryson/WireImage; Disney -
Greta Gerwig's Netflix adaptation of one of C.S. Lewis' novels will be called Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
The fantasy film stars Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and more
It arrives as a sneak peek only in IMAX on Feb. 10, 2027, followed by a Feb. 12, 2027 theatrical release date
Fans are one step closer to Greta Gerwig's big-screen Chronicles of Narnia adaptation.
The enchanted world from C.S. Lewis' beloved children's books will come to life in cinemas on Feb. 12, 2027, then on Netflix on April 2, 2027. The adaptation also has a title: Narnia: The Magician's Nephew.
Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and Denise Gough are among the actors appearing in the first installment in the second attempt to bring Lewis' Narnia novels to the silver screen.
Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey MulliganCredit: iMBC/Imazins via Getty; Tommaso Boddi/Getty; Stephanie Augello/Getty
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“I was a child when I first read The Magician's Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life," Gerwig, 42, said in a statement.
“I didn't know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart," the Barbie director continued. "It is the honor of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being. Because of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds and adventure. I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic. That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me.”
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Greta Gerwig in October 2025Credit: Kate Green/Getty
Lewis' novel The Magician's Nephew was published on May 2, 1955 and was the sixth published of the author's seven-book series. The book is set a 1,000 years before the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and focuses on the lion Aslan's creation of the magical world of Narnia. The previous Narnia film franchise only adapted The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Ciarán Hinds, Susan Wokoma, David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith will also star in the film, which is helmed by Gerwig as writer, director and producer. Members of the C. S. Lewis Estate are also producers on the film.
Andrew Wyatt, who is co-writing music for the film with Mark Ronson, teased to PEOPLE that Narnia's development was in “very, very early days” in December 2025.
“I think a lot of people are going to be happy, I think people are going to really dig it,” the musician, 54, said. “I know the story and I love the story. And Greta of course is [doing it] in her own way and it's going to be different."
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is in theaters Feb. 12, 2027. IMAX sneak previews will begin on Feb. 10, 2027.
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