First Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew Imagines a Fantastical World

Following her studio blockbuster Barbie, Greta Gerwig hopped over to Netflix to direct an adaptation of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, which will get quite the lengthy theatrical run, kicking off in IMAX and global theaters on February 12, 2027, followed by a Netflix debut on April 2, 2027––a longer theatrical window than some legacy studios manage before dropping their films on SVOD. Her C.S. Lewis adaptation stars David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Craig, and Meryl Streep, and the first, Led Zeppelin-scored trailer has arrived.

“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,” says Gerwig. “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. 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…It transformed me.”

See the preview and poster below for the film shot by Seamus McGarvey (Die My Love, Nocturnal Animals, Anna Karenina):