Narnia’s been executed. First as a set of BBC motion pictures and later as an incomplete set of Hollywood blockbusters amid the Harry Potter-fueled YA fiction adaptation goldrush. So if it’s going to return again, it would as properly be a very totally different spin on the C.S. Lewis books about children, witches, and speaking lions.
We already knew that Greta Gerwig—the director behind final yr’s mega hit Barbie—was engaged on Narnia variations for Netflix, however because of an interview with the undertaking’s producer, Amy Pascal, we now have a bit extra shade on what precisely these will encompass. The primary of the films will start filming in 2025 and is “a really new tackle Narnia,” she informed Deadline this week. “It’s all about rock and roll.”
Come once more?
For anybody unacquainted with the seven-book sequence, Lewis’ Narnia is a fantastical world kids can often entry the place time strikes in another way and the mundanities and horrors of regular life are changed by magic, monsters, and a lion as Jesus allegory referred to as Aslan. There isn’t a rock and roll in Narnia, no less than as we at present realize it, and even a lot music.
So does this imply Gerwig’s tackle the well-known sequence will likely be a musical? Or will or not it’s extra delicate than that, like Sofia Coppola’s pop music-laced Marie Antoinette from 2006. We did get greater than that in final yr’s Barbie, which regardless of some full-blown numbers like “I’m Simply Ken” sung by Ryan Gosling, stopped in need of being a conventional musical.
“I don’t know,” Gerwig informed Gamesradar final yr as regards to the upcoming Narnia motion pictures. “I haven’t even actually began wrapping my arms round it. However I’m correctly petrified of it, which seems like a great place to start out. I feel after I’m scared, it’s at all times a great signal. Possibly after I cease being scared, it’ll be like, ‘Okay. Possibly I shouldn’t try this one.’ No, I’m scared of it. It’s extraordinary. And so we’ll see, I don’t know.”
If 2024’s Depraved is any indication, a rock and roll musical adaptation of one of many Narnia books might be simply what the century-old books have to get individuals studying them once more.
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