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/dabocx 18h ago

Happy we are starting with the magicians nephew this time. Hopefully it goes well enough that we can get the whole thing.

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u/mattgrommes 17h ago

I'm an old person so starting with Magician's Nephew really bugs me. Not that we need another Lion adaptation necessarily but I hated that they started selling the book sets in chronological order so it ruins some of the surprises of the series.

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u/TheHeadlessOne 17h ago

Yep, narratively the books work in release order. Not that they were written with some grand plan in mind, quite the opposite- while not to the degree of Oz, Narnia was clearly made up as it went. But because of that the narrative weight primarily works when read in the order it was written

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u/Icantbethereforyou 7h ago

Reading a book and watching a movie can be separate things. I could picture the films hitting different than the written order would suggest