After Barbie, Greta Gerwig will direct the Narnia films for Netflix … and that terrifies her

While his Barbie crushes everything at the box office, Greta Gerwig is afraid to face the universe of narnia for Netflix.

Greta Gerwig may have made cinematic history by getting the best start for a film directed by a woman with Barbiethis does not prevent him from being tormented by doubts.

Indeed, it is on her that the onerous task of adaptation fell narniathe cult work of CS Lewis, in a series of films for Netflix…a mission that terrifies Greta Gerwig.

” LWhen I’m scared, it’s always a good sign”

The trilogy of films made between 2005 and 2010 is far from having told everything about the world of Narnia as the original work of CS Lewis really counts seven volumes : The wizard’s nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The horse and his squire, Prince Caspian, The Odyssey of the Sailing Ship, The Silver Armchair AND The last battle.

Not bad: Netflix is ​​already in place, and has chosen Greta Gerwig, who we already know will direct at least two films in the saga. But to the microphones of the podcast Movie InsideTotalthe director confided her apprehension for this project:

“Will my version of Narnia be as wonderful as Barbie? I do not know. I haven’t started to figure it out yet. But I’m really scaredwhich I think is a good starting point. I think when I’m afraid it’s always a good sign. Maybe when I stop being scared, I’ll say ‘Okay. Maybe I shouldn’t do it” No, I am terrified. It is extraordinary. We’ll see, I don’t know. »

If we want his fear to win, we also understand the origin of this apprehension. After the success of the excellent BarbieGreta Gerwig’s expectations will be particularly high.

Furthermore, narnia it is a monument of pop culture and, despite their flaws, all three Disney films picked up $1.6 billion in box office receipts worldwide… meanwhile, the mystery remains pretty much intact regarding this new Narnia adaptation: we still don’t know which volumes will be adaptedAS the release date of these films.

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