Netflix is eager to get Gerwig’s follow-up to Barbie, a Chronicles Of Narnia adaptation, in entrance of cameras in some unspecified time in the future subsequent 12 months.
Netflix government Scott Stuber has been chatting to a couple totally different shops this week and one or two fascinating nuggets of reports have surfaced in consequence. Stuber has revealed that Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler are set to characteristic in Noah Baumbach’s subsequent directing challenge for the streaming large. Baumbach co-wrote this 12 months’s industrial juggernaut, Barbie, together with his accomplice, Greta Gerwig, who directed the movie. Gerwig is popping her consideration to a different established property subsequent, within the type of a Chronicles Of Narnia adaptation, additionally for Netflix.
Little is understood concerning the challenge in the meanwhile, aside from that Gerwig has signed on to direct two movies within the sequence. As of proper now, we don’t but know which of them, both, however in accordance with Stuber, Netflix is eager to have the primary one capturing in some unspecified time in the future in 2024 with the intention most likely being to launch it in some unspecified time in the future in 2025.
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Gerwig has been chatting somewhat currently concerning the anxiousness that comes with the writing course of, and given Barbie’s beautiful success, we’re positive a few of these pure fears will discover their method into her story, not least as a result of she’s nothing if not a self-reflexive filmmaker.
Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of the traditional novel, Little Women stays as the most effective variations of youngsters’s literature we’ve seen up to now few years, so hopes are excessive that she will present us with a definitive tackle CS Lewis’ beloved books.
The Chronicles Of Narnia guide sequence was beforehand tailored for the massive display within the mid-2000s. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, directed by Andrew Adamson, got here first in 2005, and was adopted by Prince Caspian (2008) and The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (2010), each directed by the late Michael Apted.
We’ll convey you extra information on Gerwig’s tackle the Lewisverse as we hear it.
