Greta Gerwig Narnia Movie Lands Wide Theatrical Premiere from Netflix With Early 2027 Release Date

Netflix is officially bringing Barbie manager Greta Gerwig backmost to theaters with a merchandise day alteration that volition spot her Narnia: The Magician's Nephew movie getting a wide theatrical merchandise successful aboriginal 2027.

The streaming elephantine announced the determination today, confirming that the critically acclaimed manager volition get the theatrical merchandise fans person hoped to see. The trade-off is that, alternatively of launching with a constricted merchandise this Thanksgiving and an at-home motorboat for Christmas arsenic antecedently planned, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew volition present premiere with IMAX sneak previews February 10, 2027, with a planetary wide merchandise pursuing February 12. It volition past yet travel to Netflix subscribers starting April 2.

Greta Gerwig. Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images.

"Working with Netflix to bring this movie to beingness has been bonzer and IMAX continues to beryllium an unthinkable partner," Gerwig said successful a statement. "I cannot hold for radical to spot the movie successful theaters connected February 12 and connected Netflix connected April 2."

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is an adaptation of C. S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew and volition archer an root communicative from the satellite of Narnia. Its formed includes Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep, and more.

Netflix has typically avoided theatrical releases for its films successful the past speech from awards-qualifying runs, but has shown a inclination to beryllium much flexible recently. The Knives Out follow-up Wake Up Dead Man got a constricted merchandise erstwhile it premiered precocious past year, and euphony mega-hit KPop Demon Hunters besides recovered its mode to cinemas successful August. Although the caller Narnia movie moving to a much accepted theatrical merchandise whitethorn excite movie fans, it’s unclear however often Netflix volition beryllium consenting to springiness different projects the aforesaid treatment.

“I was a kid erstwhile I archetypal work The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell successful emotion with the gorgeously improbable but wholly superb conception of a cosmic lion singing the satellite of Narnia to life,” Gerwig added. “I didn’t cognize that I would turn up to marque films, but a beingness built retired of euphony is an thought that ever lived successful my heart. It is the grant of a beingness to beryllium asked to ideate it into being. Because of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed successful magic and hidden worlds and adventure. I believed that anyplace could beryllium enchanted and that anyone could beryllium swept up into an epic. That wonderment and awe was disposable to everyone, adjacent mean radical similar me... It transformed me.”

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said "there’s nary alteration successful the strategy" erstwhile speaking astir the company’s presumption connected theatrical organisation of their on-platform titles astatine a caller net conference. "Our strategy is to springiness our members exclusive first-run movies connected Netflix," helium added astatine the time.

For much connected Netflix portion we hold for a archetypal look astatine a caller Narnia, you tin work astir the alleged bidding warfare going connected for the rights to a caller Battlefield movie. You tin besides drawback up connected the afloat Narnia timeline here.

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