Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, an epic adventure, will release in IMAX and wide globally in theaters on February 12, 2027, and on Netflix on April 2, 2027. Sneak previews only in IMAX will begin on February 10, 2027.
A rare phenomenon that spans generations and geographies, Narnia’s release will match the scale and fandom of C. S. Lewis’s beloved books. Audiences will experience a true cinematic event, in IMAX, in theaters, and on Netflix.
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 — which was published May 2, 1955, and celebrates its 71st anniversary tomorrow — and pairs newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell with an all-star cast that includes Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith with Daniel Craig and 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 in theaters on February 12 and on Netflix on April 2,” 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,” says Gerwig. “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 honor 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.”
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is produced by Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Vincent Sieber-Smith, and Gerwig, and executive produced by Patricia Whitcher and Douglas Gresham and Melvin Adams for the C. S. Lewis Estate. The film is co-produced by Christine Crais.
“It’s incredibly moving to see how deeply Greta Gerwig has embraced C. S. Lewis’s world, and infused Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew with joy, heart, and genuine love for the story,” says the C. S. Lewis Company. “We’re so excited for audiences everywhere to experience her vision — and to share the magic of Narnia with a whole new generation.”
Keep reading below to find out everything you need to know about the forthcoming tale.
Here’s the official logline: “Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig brings C. S. Lewis’s beloved story The Magician’s Nephew to the screen for the first time in a sweeping adventure that invites dreamers of all ages to experience the creation of Narnia.”
The cast includes:
The movie will feature an original score by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, who previously worked with Gerwig on Barbie, and music supervision by George Drakoulias.
First published in 1955, The Magician’s Nephew “shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began,” as the novel’s opening lines read, and leads to the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which launched in 1950. The seven Narnia books have sold more than 120 million copies across 70 different countries worldwide and have been adapted into more than 60 different languages to date.
The Chronicles of Narnia series includes:
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963), better known as C. S. Lewis, was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and arguably one of the most influential writers and theologians of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.
Lewis wrote more than 30 books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract millions of new readers every year. Lewis’s most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, A Grief Observed, and the universally acknowledged classics in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will be released in theaters February 12, 2027, and on Netflix April 2, 2027. Sneak previews only in IMAX will begin on February 10, 2027. Check back on Tudum for more revelations from the land of Narnia.
Director: Greta Gerwig
Screenplay by: Greta Gerwig
Based on the novel by: C. S. Lewis
Cast: David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds, with Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Denise Gough, Susan Wokoma
Produced by: Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Vincent Sieber-Smith, Greta Gerwig
Co-producer: Christine Crais
Executive Producers: Patricia Whitcher and Douglas Gresham and Melvin Adams for the C. S. Lewis Estate
Original Score by: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
Music Supervisor: George Drakoulias
Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC
Production Designer: James Chinlund
Set Decorator: Lee Sandales
Costume Designer: Jacqueline Durran
Hair and Makeup Designer: Ivana Primorac
Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Franklin
Visual Effects Producer: Barry St. John
Edited by: Nick Houy, ACE, and Andrew Weisblum, ACE
Casting by: Nina Gold
Choreographer: Polly Bennett
Creature Effects Creative Supervisor: Neal Scanlan
Animation Supervisor: Michael Eames
