Walden-era Narnia Producer Comments on Netflix’s Narnia Reboot
In a recent interview with Deadline, Mark Johnson, the producer on all three of Walden Media’s Chronicles of Narnia movies, has commented on the upcoming series reboot by Greta Gerwig at Netflix.
“I’m fascinated. First of all, I’m a gigantic fan of hers, so I can’t wait to see it… I can’t quite tell what she’s doing. Is she doing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which, of course, we did years ago, or is she doing something else? Or is it a combination of them?”
Although Johnson appears uncertain over the direction that Gerwig intends to take with her film, it is now all but confirmed that she will be helming an adaptation of ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ for Netflix.
Despite his uncertainty on the details, Johnson nevertheless says he has high hopes for the film, in particular due to Greta Gerwig’s involvement in the project:
“I don’t know how secret it all is, I don’t know about it, but I’m not competitive about it… I can’t wait to see it, because whatever [Gerwig] does is going to be really good, and I’m sure, radically different from what we did.”
Deadline also reports that Mark Johnson praised the decision to release Narnia in IMAX, with the film currently scheduled for release on Thanksgiving 2026 in IMAX cinemas, followed by a streaming release on Netflix on Christmas Day 2026.
It’s really great to see how excited people in the film industry are about this project… I just hope that their faith in the creative team is rewarded by the final product. Fingers crossed!
It’s still weird to see it referred to it as the “Walden Era” – makes me feel old!
Some of us are still in our Walden era, LOL….
Good to see he’s excited about it!
If he is so uninformed that he doesn’t even know the film will be MN, is his opinion even relevant? Does he even know about the Meryl Streep casting? I’d be very curious to know his thoughts on that issue.