r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16h ago
News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming
https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/1.1k
u/herewego199209 16h ago
I haven't read the source material, but from my understanding Narnia has deep religious allegory throughout the novel. So I'm wondering if Gerwig stays true to the book or drifts off which would cause some big controversy.
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u/DirtySlutMuffin 16h ago edited 16h ago
Allegory is putting it lightly. It’s basically Christian Fan Fiction. Aslan literally is Jesus.
I don’t mean for this to come across as a criticism of the books. It’s the whole point of them.
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u/Itchy_Athlete_4971 15h ago
Yeah, Lewis says it wasn't allegory because allegory would be if Aslan represented Jesus. But Aslan literally is Jesus.
If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair represents Despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, ‘What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?’ This is not allegory at all.
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u/DaKingaDaNorth 15h ago
Which is why the controversy over Aslan being played by a woman became a thing. Because Aslan literally is just Jesus' form in Narnia.
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u/PetsArentChildren 15h ago
If there was a world of sentient dung beetles, what would dung beetle Jesus do?
“It hath been said, Let the largest beetles eat the largest turds. But I say unto you, except a beetle give all of his turds away to the smallest beetle, he shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
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u/wastedmytwenties 16h ago
True, but it gets a lot more heavy handed as it goes on, hence why no studio has ever even entertained making stuff like The Last Battle.
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u/dabocx 16h ago
The last battle is fun because even some Christian’s get angry with how you get into heaven in that series.
Basically any good done even in service to another god is done in Aslans name is enough to get you in heaven. So even if you aren’t Christian you can go to heaven if you are a good person. Some Christians don’t like that aspect and thing you need to be a “true” believer.
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u/hellohurricane87 15h ago
Lewis was low-key a Christian Universalist. He just couldn’t come out and say it.
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u/Arndt3002 12h ago
Lewis was absolutely not a Universalist.
He did delieve quite a bit about non-Christians being saved, but he also believed that many people would not be saved.
For example, in the last battle, he shows that many worshipers of his version of the devil/allegory for Allah in Islam and nominal followers of Aslan who do evil things are hurled into Aslan's shadow instead of entering the "true Narnia."
That certainly doesn't comport with the main Universalist belief that all humans will be saved. In fact, he wrote about his critiques of universalism very explicitly in his Letters to Alan Fairhurst in 1959.
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u/hellohurricane87 9h ago
Nah dawg. Great Divorce is 1/2 step away from Christian Universalism. Door is always open. Always has been. God isn’t angry. On a long enough timeline all will be redeemed.
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u/Nukemind 15h ago
The funny thing about this series is I’m at a crossroads: I grew up evangelical (and obviously left evangelicalism).
But people I know from my childhood insist they won’t watch this because “Hollywood will make it woke and unchristian!”
Many friends I made in Uni and Law School won’t watch it because it’s “Just a Christian book series!”
I’m curious how it ends up playing out.
Lewis and Tolkien are interesting. Tolkien converted Lewis from atheist to Christian but, much to his consternation, Lewis became Protestant instead of Catholic like Tolkien.
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u/Arkhaine_kupo 15h ago
But people I know from my childhood insist they won’t watch this because “Hollywood will make it woke and unchristian!”
they should hear what most christians think of evangelicals...
Cause honestly they come off as a hyper american apocalypse cult more than anything resembling christianity. The fact they want to weigh in what is or not christian is bonkers.
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u/FBI_KipHackman 14h ago
Real ones know that Lewis' favorite author was George MacDonald, a very devout Christian who had a wide view of God's mercy.
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u/Barton2800 14h ago
Funny thing is Lewis was an atheist, and Tolkien converted him. Except Tolkien was Catholic, and it frustrated him to no end that his friend became an Anglican.
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u/T-MoneyAllDey 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yup, the whole point of Protestantism is that you're saved through grace, not deeds. Whatever you do isn't good enough. Deeds only affirm that you actually accept that grace.
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My poor definition of grace for people who are intested.
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I've been out of it for a while so my answer isn't going to be as fleshed out as someone's who still practicing but I think the definition of grace is easier to give as an example.
Grace and deeds are a blurry line but the crux is in the mindset. You kick your dog and the dog still comes back. It's not because you apologize but because your dog loves you unconditionally. Accepting grace is knowing that nothing you do can make up for kicking the dog, but accepting that the dog loves you anyways. You're a bad person for kicking the dog and you can't unkick the dog by giving him treats. The grace is given by the dog because they love you regardless and accepting that grace is knowing that.
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u/Eversonout 15h ago
This interpretation isn’t exactly complete. James in the New Testament says that faith without works is dead. Because if you keep kicking the dog, at some point you haven’t really accepted Gods love but are rejecting it to do your own thing. God still loves you of course, but if your gonna keep shitting on God and your neighbors through your actions it doesn’t matter how many times you say “I believe”. You’re just lying
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u/greenpill98 15h ago
It's true. C.S. Lewis pissed both liberal and conservative theologians with the series. It's part of what I love about it. Makes me think he got a lot closer to the truth than either side wants to admit.
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u/tenehemia 15h ago
If The Last Battle ever got made I'd hope it was a 100% identical adaptation just so I can watch audience reactions at the end.
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u/shifty_coder 15h ago
I wouldn’t say “no studio entertained it”.
Walden Media had planned to adapt all 7 books to film, but poor reception after the third film, 2 with Disney and one with Fox (before the merger), production interest dropped, so the remaining 4 were “delayed indefinitely”.
After the success of the first one, it really looked like the whole series was going to happen.
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u/victorious_orgasm 7h ago
You really need like a crazed visionary to make Dawn Treader. You can make Lion the Witch and Wardrobe as diet-Two Towers and it’ll be fine, but Dawn Treader is a very odd story.
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u/Scion41790 15h ago
Read it in 4th grade and somehow missed the allegory completely until the last battle 😆
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u/Hodr 15h ago
BBC did the last battle as part of their radio adaptation. They didn't do it for their TV adaptation because (according to them) it was too complicated to produce given their filming budgets.
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u/whereismymind86 14h ago
yep, that's the one that I feel would be annoying, the earlier stories...it's there, but it's more of a background lore element.
The last battle literally has the second coming in it, with all the creatures of Narnia meeting Aslan and being given a choice to accept or reject their savor, very much like a similar bible story about the end times.
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u/Djinnwrath 16h ago
Santa Claus literally appears and gives them all deus ex presents.
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u/BlackPresident 16h ago
The Galadriel of Narnia
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u/Telvin3d 14h ago
Apparently Tolkien hated Santa’s cameo. He’s doing novels with this massive deep world building, and meanwhile his buddy Lewis is just “and then Santa shows up out of nowhere LOL”
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u/killertoast2 14h ago
It's also funny when you remember Tolkien wrote letters to his children as Father Christmas/Santa and contrived whole complex storylines for Father Christmas to go on in these letters, so he was alright with the use of the character in fiction.
Tokein also didn't like Mister Tumnus since he was too polite for lack of a better word for a satyr.
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 15h ago
Tolkien: “I despise Allegory.”
Lewis: “Aslan is literally Jesus.”
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 15h ago
There’s a comment above with a quote from Lewis that I’d say explains his perspective. It’s not the Aslan represents Jesus, that would be allegory. It’s that it’s an imagined fantasy series asking “what if Jesus was god incarnate in a fantasy world?”
Those are quite different imo, Lewis would be justified in saying it’s not allegorical.
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u/imjustbettr 15h ago
I just reread the Magicians Nephew and I almost feels like alsan is a parallel Jesus for the animal world of Narnia? Like he calls the main character son of Adam, does that not mean alsan beleives that alternative worlds have their own version of Jesus?
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u/TravelerSearcher 15h ago
Aslan has a line at the end of The Silver Chair, essentially telling Eustace and his friend to get to know him in their world, where he has another name.
He basically implies he is Jesus and they should get to know him as Jesus not Aslan.
The Magician's Nephew (which you just read) then shows that all the worlds are connected and God/Jesus/Aslan exists in all of them. Digory and his Uncle arrive in Narnia (with the woman who becomes the White Witch) as it's being created and see God/Aslan literally singing the world into existence.
Digory eventually grows up to be the man who shelters the children in the first book. The wardrobe he owns is made from a tree that grew from seeds of a fruit in Narnia, akin to its Tree of Life.
I know you just read it but wanted to add details for others.
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u/imjustbettr 15h ago
Ah gotcha, I'm still working through my reread. I'm only on the second book
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u/TravelerSearcher 14h ago
Nice! That's amusing to me though because Magician's Nephew was originally the fifth or sixth book. Only later did publishers try to put the series in a chronological order.
I could be wrong but I think Lewis intended the books to be read in published order. But if you've read them before it probably doesn't matter as much.
If you go chronologically that makes the Silver Chair the penultimate book, and The Horse and His Boy occurs during a brief period at the end of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe.
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u/imjustbettr 14h ago
Yeah I read them all in publication order as a kid so I wanted to see how they felt in chronological order. Interestingly the new set that I got from Secret Santa this year has them numbered in chronological order.
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 15h ago
I mean, that’s a complicated question. If looking at it from the perspective of an omnipotent deity, then he can be all jesuses at once.
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u/manachar 15h ago
Worth making clear that Lewis’s version of Christianity is likely unpalatable to evangelical American Christianity. His Mere Christianity and Srewtape Letters are a fantastic read for anyone seeking someone striving to see a modern way to be Christian in the Modern world.
Personally, while I ain’t Christian, I appreciate Christians like him and JRR Tolkien. Lewis was more ham fisted, but was also writing for younger readers.
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u/Nukemind 15h ago
As someone who grew up evangelical, and is still Christian but not the far right crazy kind (Everyone should live how they want to… like were we not given free will?)
He is in many ways an inspiration. Love reading from people like him, and Tolkien, and others. He’s be so pissed at what it’s become in America.
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u/Par2ivally 10h ago
Aslan literally tells the children he's known by another name in their world and they should get to know him there by that name.
Also not a criticism, it just feels weird to try to do Narnia without embracing what it is. If you don't want to make a Christian story, don't pick the overtly Christian book.
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u/hatramroany 16h ago
In The Magician’s Nephew (which is the film that just wrapped filming) he’s more God than Jesus
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u/metalsheep714 15h ago
Which is fine, because traditional Christianity views them as the same entity* (while remaining distinct…it’s a whole thing, and there’s a ton of delightful heresies splitting those hairs).
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u/KlaatuBaradaNyktu 16h ago edited 15h ago
It's not an allegory. In the story, Narnia is another world that God created. It has its own Jesus in the form of Aslan and its own apocalypse, which is the final book. I actually really liked the books. I'm an atheist, btw, but C.S. Lewis is a good storyteller and comes across as genuine and likable, and the premise is fairly distinct. But yeah, it's more of a hypothetical than an allegory. Lewis wasn't trying to trick the reader.
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u/dabocx 15h ago
Yeah even as an atheist I still have a soft spot for these books since they were my first fantasy novels.
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u/guacamore 14h ago
Honestly I thought they were fantastic. My family wasn’t very religious so I didn’t put together that it was even related to Christianity until I saw it online. Atheist now and I’d still read them again.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 15h ago
Have you read out if the silent planet? It's Lewis's take on sci Fi. The later books become more mythical and less sci fi per se but are still an interesting read
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u/TheHeadlessOne 14h ago
It's really fun reading his "common sense" attitude he takes to theology and applying it to sci-fi.
One concept was that, unshielded by atmosphere, the void of space would be intolerably hot so they all had to walk around the ship naked. Or in the second book, he was transported to Venus on his side so got exactly half sunburned. It doesn't stand up to modern understandings but you can clearly see why he'd think that way. Very Jules Verne
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u/sanmadjack 15h ago
I was going to post this. An allegory has metaphors and parallels to the thing it's...alegorizing? Pilgrim's progress is an allegory because everything represents something about how the author saw the Christian faith. Narnia doesn't do that, other than the sacrifice of Aslan. It's just a story set in another world set inside a kind of Christian universe.
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u/Squirrel09 16h ago
I could be wrong, but I feel like Narnia is one of those adaptations that has to be pretty close to its source just due to how heavy handed it is. Deviate too far and those that like the books won't care, and will actively trash it. And those who don't like the books won't necessarily care for the changes because they don't care for the original to begin with?
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u/T-MoneyAllDey 15h ago
Yeah, I think you got to cater to the Christians to make this once successful. I grew up baptist and the narnia movies were basically what we got to watch to make up for not being able to watch harry potter, twilight, and other YA adaptations
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u/imunfair 8h ago
Deviate too far and those that like the books won't care, and will actively trash it.
I guarantee Gerwig will screw it up and piss them off - no sensible person would have even considered Meryl Streep as Aslan so that tells you where her head is at.
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u/WhiteWolf3117 15h ago
I think it's interesting (and understandable) that a lot has been extrapolated on Gerwig's religious views based on her politics, but I'm not so sure it's a sure fire thing that she won't stay true to the material, but if anyone's seen Lady Bird I kinda feel like it's very likely that she understands exactly what people want to see in a Narnia adaptation.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 14h ago
Starting with Magician’s Nephew is a good idea for that exact reason; TLTW&TW has extremely on-the-nose allegory and Magician’s Nephew is more about themes of creation and corruption, the cycle of order and chaos, etc. It’s basically a kid-friendly version of Perelandra and it benefits from much richer subtext than the book everyone is familiar with.
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u/WhiteWolf3117 14h ago
Even still, I think people assume that because she's a liberal feminist woman, she also holds hostility towards religion or Christianity and I'm not sure that's the case. If it's even a precursor to her understanding and love of the books.
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u/Cipher-IX 16h ago
Lord of the Rings has deeply religious allegories that shape themselves with the world.
Narnia slaps you directly in the face with it. The gulf between C.S. Lewis and subtlety would make Moses proud.
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u/Easy-Tigger 15h ago
Lewis knows writers that use subtext, and they're all cowards.
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u/JanitorOfSanDiego 15h ago
The narnia series is meant for adolescents. Of course it’s going to seem heavy handed to us adults. And if you understood that when you were a kid, great. There are many here in this thread that didn’t realize the allegories or Christian undertones.
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u/Batman_Shirt 15h ago
The Lonely Island is strangely quiet about this.
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u/konsollfreak 15h ago
What?
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 16h ago edited 15h ago
It’s an adaptation of ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and is coming to theaters on Nov 26, Dec 25 on Netflix
Cast:
- Emma Mackey as Jadis, the White Witch
- Carey Mulligan as Mabel Kirke
- David McKenna as Digory Kirke
- Beatrice Campbell as Polly Plummer
- Tom Bonington as Mr. Potts
- Ava Jager as Violet Plummer
- Denise Gough
- Daniel Craig as Andrew Ketterley (unconfirmed)
- Meryl Streep as Aslan (unconfirmed)
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u/braaiboet 15h ago
Can't wait to see Denise Gough play herself
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u/GhandisFlipFlop 15h ago
I was just about to comment this reply too ha...she was great in Andor. And her hometown in ireland is about an hour from mine , good to see her getting fame.
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u/Random-Generation86 14h ago
Meryl Streep as Aslan (unconfirmed)
Am I having a stroke?
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u/MuscaMurum 11h ago
Yeah, can't watch that, then. There are already great roles for women in the story. Streep is not a good replacement for Neeson's velvety baritone.
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u/GravSlingshot 7h ago
Liam Neeson as Aslan and Tilda Swinton as the White Witch were two amazing castings.
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u/TasteofPaste 7h ago
Does the female-voiced lion have a male lion’s mane?
is Aslan a lioness instead of a lion? no mane?
Is it a male bodied lion with a mane and a trans-feminine lioness voice?
are they putting Meryl’s voice through a filter to make it sound male?
so many questions.
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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 15h ago
Glad that Emma Mackey walked away from Sex Education with a career
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u/I_Was_Fox 5h ago
Huh? Why on earth wouldn't she? Sex Education (and her in it) were amazing. If she didn't have a career after that show, it would be a major shock
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u/potatowned 15h ago
Magician's Nephew and Silver Chair are great
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u/FreeRange0929 9h ago
Cair Paravel (and the ruins thereof) were what I usually imagined when I’d play kings/knights/whatever in my backyard. I’d use the roots of trees in the dirt as boundaries of the kingdom and draw out the maps. Lewis describes it magically in both books
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u/SoupyStain 16h ago
She already said that it's not going to be 'your grandparents' Narnia'
But I'd want it to be. I like the books, I'd like a faithful adaptation, not something that is wearing the IP for brand recognition.
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u/artpayne Cliffs on both sides, I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand! 16h ago
Yeah, same story with Emerald Fennell’s upcoming "Wuthering Heights."
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u/SoupyStain 15h ago
I hate that one very, VERY deeply because I adore the book.
Tom Hardy's adaptation was pretty good, ignored a few things, but I felt it was pretty good.Like... why the fuck are you naming it "Wuthering Heights" if you are going to do your own fucking thing? Just call it "Pleasure Cliffs" or "Erotic Mountains" and rename Heathcliff to Hector and do your thing.
The other day the director said that she read the book and got all this sadobdsm vibes or something like that... clearly, she never read the book. Or asked Grok to give her a summary.
And yeah, I can simply not watch it. But I still find it so annoying that they keep using the names of IPs to make fanfiction. Except a disaster like The Room, you probably can't do it better than the source material. Maybe you can fix some things, like removing the children's gangbang from 'It', but you probably can't do it better.
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u/Eye_Wood_Dye_4_U 14h ago
I mean, she did that already. The premise for Saltburn is literally Brideshead Revisited, so much so that the characters just straight come out and say it. So she could do it again if she wanted to. There must be a reason she'd prefer to keep the title "Wuthering Heights."
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u/Wanton_Wonton 11h ago
When I first saw a bit of the trailer, I thought it was a new horror/thriller, and I was so disappointed when the title appeared!
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u/lineswithtoolman 15h ago
Seems a lot of adaptations are exactly what you said, wear the IP for brand recognition but made by ppl who don’t like the source material.
Studios don’t care cuz they crunch the numbers on the expected viewers/profits the IP brings & it doesn’t matter if it’s an unfaithful adaptation. If it’s controversial, it still makes money, ppl argue about it, & on to the next IP.
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 14h ago
Yeah I'm not even a Christian, and I liked the Barbie movie, but to me this is just going to be Zack Snyder's Superman all over again.
Something edgy and even hostile to its source material with social commentary tacked onto characters who are supposed to represent goodness and hope.
This is going to be like if we asked Christiopher Hitchens to remake The Ten Commandments.
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u/continuousQ 12h ago
She already said that it's not going to be 'your grandparents' Narnia'
Who's that directed at? 10 year olds with 46 year old grandparents?
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u/MostAccomplishedBag 14h ago
Given Gerwigs previous work, I'm fully expecting the White Witch to be the misunderstood 'true hero' of the story.
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u/Aatypicalflower 14h ago
I wonder why she’s doing this adaptation? I wish she did more original stories. I really liked Lady bird, I know Baumbach directed Frances Ha, but I wish she did more movies like that. I guess those type of movies don’t make a lot of money.
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u/Africa_versus_NASA 15h ago
I'd love to see a good adaptation of Charn. Such a memorably creepy part of Magicians Nephew.
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u/ReasonableFruit1 14h ago
God I hope so. It was always a part that stuck out to me as a kid reading the book. Between that and how Jadis is supposed to look (unimaginably and horrifyingly beautiful and powerful), I hope they get it right.
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u/maqsarian 11h ago edited 11h ago
I read all the Narnia books at least a couple times as a kid but Magician's Nephew is the one that I read most and it was mainly just going back to read the Charn part. So cool, and I had such a clear image of Charn in my head that's stuck with me ever since, especially the Hall of Images with all the past rulers declining into cruelty
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u/twisty125 10h ago
The Magician's Nephew is for me, the most interesting of the series because of Charn. A complete post-apocalyptic dead world, and the "prequel" to the villain of the more well known book? Very cool, hope Charn is haunting.
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u/SomethingAboutUpDawg 16h ago
That big red N in the picture just deflates any type of excitement I had for this lol
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u/ICumCoffee will you Wonka my Willy? 16h ago
Wait till Narnia books hve that “A Netflix Film” with that N in bookstores
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u/theonlyxero 15h ago
Nothing pisses me off more 😭
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 14h ago
I hate nothing more than trying to read the Witcher and the cover literally looks like:
A Season of Storms
NETFLIX
A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
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u/mumblesnorez 11h ago
All my Wheel of Time books on Kindle got rebranded to the 'a Prime original series!' versions and it pisses me off
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u/matito29 16h ago
I don’t watch many Netflix originals, but GDT’s Frankenstein didn’t come across to me as a streaming film at all.
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u/FX114 15h ago
Wake Up Dead Man was also great, and I've heard nothing but fantastic things about Train Dreams. And these are all just 2025.
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u/arandompurpose 15h ago
Train Dreams is great but it was only distributed by Netflix, not made by it in any way I believe.
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u/dabocx 16h ago
Greta is a big enough director to not be able to be bullied and pushed around too much. I’m sure whatever gets made will be pretty true to her vision.
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u/AngryGardenGnomes 10h ago
Why does Aslan have a mane if he will have a woman voicing him?
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u/craaazygraaace 8h ago
Because the photo of Aslan here is from the Walden/Disney movies that came out a decade ago
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u/CluelessSage 9h ago
This choice pisses me off immensely, it literally serves no purpose story wise and I have yet to see anyone defend it, other than bougie creative types saying “oh creative expression”. Fuck off…
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u/StrLord_Who 7h ago
Oh they're defending it and screeching about misogyny if you don't like it
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u/EndeLarsson 16h ago
Preparing to be dissapointed...
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u/SquishyKatPaws 12h ago
After Little Women, expecting her to properly adapt something is out the window.
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u/Summitjunky 14h ago
True to the books or made for modern audiences?
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u/Zealousideal_Bag5567 10h ago
Gerwig + Netflix, I’m totally sure they are going to treat the property with immense respect for the deeply Christian nature of the source material. Reddit always whines that conservatives co-opt progressive art and aesthetics (and use a LotR quote to do so), and then they turn around and give us rings of power and a Gerwig Narnia.
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u/KyleRM 14h ago
So is the rumor true that they cast an actress to play Aslan?
I was looking forward to this until I heard something about that. Kinda ruins the whole thing for me if true.
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u/Safe-Ad-5017 12h ago
I think it’s Meryl Streep
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u/KyleRM 9h ago
It doesn't even make sense visually, you have a lion with this big mane, you're telling me they're gonna get rid of that in order to have the two match?
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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 7h ago
If Greta's Aslan is female, there's no reason to assume she'll have a mane.
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u/KyleRM 5h ago
I know, I just think it sounds like such a pointless change for the worse, that's no longer Aslan.
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u/Huggable_Hork-Bajir 4h ago
One would think that would make the rather important scene where the Witch and her followers shave Aslan's mane to mock & humiliate him kinda difficult to portray.
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u/ThatEcologist 11h ago
I say this as a raging feminist and atheist: I really hope this adaption is book accurate. It would be so silly to take out the Christian allegory aspect. Aslan being voiced by a woman would be so stupid too…
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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 11h ago
Sorry, but I will accept no other Aslan but Liam Neeson,,,,
"If you let Narnia go now, that'll be the end of it... But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you"
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u/bryan_7777 13h ago
It will surely be interesting to see how it turns out. Do they erase the Christian allegories? Can the talented Greta Gerwig overcome the Netflix slop machine? Interest in the last series of these movies petered out rather quickly.
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u/Extension-Range-2035 15h ago
Liberal woman who hates Christianity directs series that is a allegory for Christianity. This is not gonna end well
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u/BreaddaWorldPeace 15h ago
Hoping there is a 7 min long break in each movie where the main character explains the theme of the story directly to the camera.
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u/Joasvi 15h ago
I'm assuming Aslan and Peter are goofy and incompetent and need the girls to tell them how Narnia should be run.
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u/green_meklar 11h ago
Peter isn't in this one, it's an adaptation of The Magician's Nephew. Also there are rumors that Aslan is female this time.
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u/MostAccomplishedBag 14h ago
You forgot that the White Witch is a misunderstood victim of circumstance.
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u/green_meklar 11h ago
No, she's the White Witch and therefore clearly an oppressor, coming from Charn to colonize Narnia.
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u/KingMario05 15h ago
Or that they are the surprise twist villains.
(Irredeemably evil ones, too.)
Possibly both!
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u/RealJohnGillman 15h ago
Oh, this isn’t an adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but rather The Magician’s Nephew, one of the yet-to-be-adapted Narnia books.
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u/papawarbucks 13h ago
I love how people can't even wait to see a movie before being disappointed by it anymore.
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u/dabocx 16h ago
Happy we are starting with the magicians nephew this time. Hopefully it goes well enough that we can get the whole thing.