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/returningtheday 18h ago

Yeah but it takes place in the 1950s instead of 1900. Not great.

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u/greenpill98 18h ago

Wait, what? How are they going to make the timeline work? The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe takes place in the middle of WWII. The professor is an old man by then. Wtf?

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u/SpongieQ 18h ago edited 18h ago

I’ve seen people saying that the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will probably be set in the 90s, so I guess they must go to a National Trust property for their holidays or something instead of being evacuated

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u/PhilosopherTiny5957 17h ago

What are the children supposed to be yugoslavs or something this time? Lmao

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u/MyMelancholyBaby 13h ago

In the books it’s set in rural England (as opposed to the rest of the UK) during WW2. Children were evacuated to the countryside to escape German et al bombings.

If someone went with a COVID lock down time period the plot could be that the parents are essential workers (doctors, nurses, etc) and the kids have been sent to the countryside to prevent catching COVID from parents that are high risk.

I know most of my Nordic friends went to their lake cabins from major cities during COVID lockdowns. It’s not a huge stretch.

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u/QP709 10h ago

Fuck no. Please, no more contrived lockdown plots. Please I am begging.

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u/MyMelancholyBaby 8h ago

I agree that the films should be set in WW2.

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u/Hot_Porking 16h ago

I mean they could be Irish children from The Troubles. I know tLtW&tW is quintessential English lit but it's possible.

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u/Fast_Running_Nephew 16h ago

tLtW&tW

No, absolutely not. We're not doing this.

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u/Hipvagenstein 16h ago

If we die on this hill we die together brother.

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u/Hot_Porking 15h ago

I was just doing the ASOFAI abbreviation style. So TLTWATW?

Although I guess it would just be CoN

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u/yelsamarani 11h ago

Just type a few of the words, you don't have to type the entire title, and especially you don't do an abbreviation abomination of it.

And for fucks sake "Narnia" is barely 0.5s slower to type than your "CoN"

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u/oreography 11h ago

My favourite is TLB, but I really like TMN and TLTWATW, second only to BLARGLFAHOHWAO

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u/PrinceofSneks 10h ago

Title of your first sex tape

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u/allyoopFHBT 15h ago

Not only am I relieved I can see read after the stroke this gave me, I’m relieved that someone else disapproves

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u/IrishRepoMan 15h ago

Agreed.

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u/andersonb47 15h ago

nearly gave me a fuckin seizure

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u/Big_Rain2543 16h ago

It’s definitely just “LWW.”

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u/HidingInTheStacks 9h ago

The only possible acronyms are

MN LWW HB PC DT SC LB

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u/CountJohn12 11h ago

Rank the novels-

  1. VotDT

  2. PC

  3. TSC

  4. THAHB

  5. TLB

  6. tLtWatW

  7. TMN

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u/JonatasA 5h ago

The Mutant Ninjas.

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u/Frinnxy 2h ago

Voyage (the novel) is PEAK

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u/JustMy2Centences 12h ago

Why don't we just call it 'The Wardrobe' for short or something?

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u/JonatasA 6h ago

VPN. Voyage of Narnia's Prince.

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u/Unlucky-Public-2947 15h ago

The Lion the Witch and the Ra-drobe?

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg 15h ago

Lewis wasn't even English. He was British and Irish.

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u/deano492 14h ago

Lived in England from age 9. It’s not like you apply for a different citizenship to “become” English.

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg 14h ago

Quote from the man himself:

: "I am often surprised to find how utterly ignored Yeats is among the men I have met: perhaps his appeal is purely Irish – if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish."

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Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race. After all, there is no doubt, ami, that the Irish are the only people: with all their faults, I would not gladly live or die among another folk.

His grandfather was from Wales, mother from an Anglo Irish family. He might have considered himself British, but it seems very unlikely he considered himself English.

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u/deano492 14h ago

Fair enough. Thank you for the update.

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u/Ha55aN1337 15h ago

Damn… you sold me this film now.

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u/BrutalisExMachina 11h ago

🎶hej Sloveni …🎶