Barbie director Greta Gerwig is “correctly scared” to start out tackling The Chronicles of Narnia motion pictures for Netflix.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will quickly be shifting her focus to a different legendary land as she’s been tapped to write and direct at the least two Chronicles of Narnia motion pictures for Netflix. Whereas talking on the Total Film podcast (by way of Entertainment Weekly), Greta Gerwig admitted that she’s “correctly scared” of tackling Narnia.
“I haven’t even actually began wrapping my arms round it, however I’m correctly petrified of it, which looks like an excellent place to start out,” Greta Gerwig stated of the Narnia motion pictures. “I believe once I’m scared, it’s all the time an excellent signal. Possibly once I cease being scared, it’ll be like, ‘Possibly I shouldn’t do this one.’ No, I’m fearful of it. It’s extraordinary. And it’s thrilling.” It’s an enormous undertaking, little question, however I’ve religion Gerwig can pull it off; And possibly we’ll lastly get an entire adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ saga.
The final live-action adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ fantasy sequence began off sturdy with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The primary movie grossed $745 million worldwide, however the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, made considerably much less with $419 million. One other lackluster sequel adopted, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Daybreak Treader, and that appeared to spell the top of the Narnia franchise. Netflix has been growing these initiatives for fairly a while as they signed a multi-year deal for The Chronicles of Narnia franchise 5 years in the past.
Whereas Greta Gerwig might not have appeared like the apparent option to direct The Chronicles of Narnia, she advised Whole Movie that she doesn’t need to limit her profession to the identical forms of motion pictures. “I hope to make all completely different varieties of films in the midst of the time I get to make motion pictures, which — it’s a very long time, but it surely’s additionally restricted,” Gerwig stated. “I need to do massive issues and small issues and in every single place in between, and having one other massive canvas is thrilling and in addition daunting.“
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is now enjoying in theaters and is on monitor for an impressive box-office take alongside Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. You possibly can try a assessment of Barbie from our personal Chris Bumbray right here.
