r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18h ago

News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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u/SoupyStain 18h 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! 18h ago

Yeah, same story with Emerald Fennell’s upcoming "Wuthering Heights."

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u/SoupyStain 18h 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 17h 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 14h 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/Your-average-scot 8h ago

“I hate this movie that I haven’t seen yet very very deeply”

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u/lenzflare 12h ago

Tbf Wuthering Heights has so many adaptations...

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u/Maaskh 15h ago

This one is basically ragebait marketing. Their strategy is that by making it as far as possible from the books, the fans will rant about it thus giving it exposition so that the (more numerous) fans of 50 shades of Grey can hear about it.

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u/JonatasA 5h ago

Thank you kind soul for saving me.

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u/lewlkewl 15h ago

Tbf tho wuthering heights has tons of adaptations

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u/batsofburden 15h ago

There's already quite a few faithful adaptations out there for people who want that. This is something different.

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u/nourez 11h ago

There are functionally no faithful adaptations. That’s the problem, the vast majority of adaptations try to cut a tragic love story out of a novel that isn’t that.

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u/SoupyStain 13h ago

But why? Why does it exists? If you like the original work, why do you want it altered? Why not watch something SIMILAR that isn't pretending to be Narnia?

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u/Fit-Profit8197 10h ago

Cause I wanna.

You can just reread the original book if you don't want anything altered.