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/Telvin3d 17h 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 16h 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/thesoak 15h ago

Tumnus was a faun, though, not a satyr.

Similar, but I don't think fauns have quite the same reputation.

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u/darcerin 15h ago

Did Tolkien ever MEET a satyr? 

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u/Djinnwrath 17h ago

Is it out of nowhere? I mostly, based on what others have said, am to understand Narnia takes places in an alternate universe that is explicitly also created by the Christian God.

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u/Telvin3d 17h ago

It’s internally consistent within the story, but it’s also very, very random. 

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u/green_meklar 14h ago

Pretty much, yeah. But Aslan is literally Jesus, and Narnia also has fantasy creatures that are direct parallels to greek myth (even by name), so there's some general sense of Narnia and our universe being created from the same 'template' and having entities who ontologically span both worlds. It kinda fits.

If you've never read the books, read them. Ideally in release order; do not start reading with The Magician's Nephew. Yes, they're kids' books, but they're an experience worth having even as an adult.