Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will release in IMAX and wide globally in cinemas on 12th February 2027, ahead of its launch on streamer Netflix on 2nd April 2027.
Sneak previews only in IMAX will begin on 10th February 2027.
A rare phenomenon that spans generations and geographies, Netflix hopes Narnia’s release will match the scale and fandom of C. S. Lewis’s beloved books.
Written for the screen and directed by Gerwig, the origin story for Narnia is the first ever adaptation of Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew for film and television, which was published 2nd May 1955.
The book has previously been brought to stage, by companies such as Gallery 7, the script written by Michael O’Brien and Tim Carroll, performed in 2022.
In the original novel, on a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan’s song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible…
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew pairs newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell with an all-star cast that includes Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith with Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep, and more.
Lewis’s book series captured Gerwig’s imagination from a very young age, and she’s beyond thrilled to bring her singular vision to this beloved world.
“Working with Netflix to bring this film to life has been extraordinary and IMAX continues to be an incredible partner. I cannot wait for people to see the film,” says Gerwig.
“I was a child when I first read The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life,” she continues. “I didn’t know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart. It is the honour of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being.
“Because of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds and adventure. I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic. That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me… It transformed me.”
Despite being the first book in the series, The Magician’s Nephew was actually the final book completed by C.S. Lewis, written over a five-year period from 1949 to 1954, while the other six books in the series were written from 1948 to 1953. Despite that, it was not actually the final book published. The publishers decided to publish The Magician’s Nephew before the final book in the series, The Last Battle.
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The hardback edition of The Magician’s Nephew, book one in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia, released in 2014. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes
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