The Chronicles of Narnia: Greta Gerwig’s film already has a date to start production

Greta Gerwig already has a date to start working on the new films The Chronicles of Narnia, which will now be produced by Netflix. Second Scott Stuberpresident of streaming film management, the director of Barbie (2023) should begin scripting and prepare to direct the first of the two films for which she was hired from 2024. The information is from Collider.

There is still no information about stories that will be adapted by Gerwig and whether she should continue to lead the franchise in more films, as Gerwig’s work CS Lewis It has seven books in total. In order of release, the story begins in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobelaunched in 1950, and continues with Prince Caspianfrom 1951, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderfrom 1952, telling the story of the Pevensie brothers in Narnia.

The Chronicles of Narnia listed in chronological order

In the following years, Lewis still released The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and his Boy (1954), The Magician’s Nephew (1955) and The Last Battle (1956), which travel through time to tell other fantastic stories from the magical world of Narnia.

Before Netflix purchased the adaptation rights to the work, around five years ago, The Chronicles of Narnia had already been adapted on two occasions: first in a BBC series, shown between 1988 and 1990, which included the books The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader It is The Silver Chair.

Years later, it was Disney’s turn to release films based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian It is The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderbetween 2005 and 2010. This is the most famous adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia until today.

A fourth film, based on The Silver Chairwas on the company’s schedule, but never got off the ground. Will Poulterin Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3which appears in The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderwould star in the canceled production.