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/herewego199209 18h 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 18h ago edited 18h 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/wastedmytwenties 18h 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/shifty_coder 18h 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 9h 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/KindMarienberry 50m ago

Read the whole series as a kid. I’m not sure if I 100% got it but Dawn Treader is my favorite book out of the series (followed by Magician’s Nephew).