Oscar-Nominated Editor Andrew Weisblum Working on Greta Gerwig’s Narnia

Last week, NarniaWeb received a tip that Andrew Weisblum will serve as an editor on Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew.

Weisblum is a frequent collaborator with Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson. His past credits include:

• Caught Stealing (2025)
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
• tick, tick… BOOM! (2022)*
• The Whale (2022)
• The French Dispatch (2021)
• mother! (2017)
• Noah (2014)
• Black Swan (2011)*

* Twice he has received Academy Award nominations for Achievement in Film Editing.

Following the report, we identified a photograph taken on the first day of public filming that appears to show Weisblum seated beside Gerwig inside a covered tent near video monitors. Weisblum’s presence was not reported at the time.

While Weisblum has yet to publicly mention Narnia or The Magician’s Nephew (his agent did not respond to a request for comment), he recently discussed his approach to editing adaptations in an interview promoting Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, based on the novel by Charlie Huston.

I did not read [Caught Stealing]. I thought about it and decided the film is not being made exclusively for people who are aficionados of the book, and I want the story to be clear for people who love the book or people who don’t.

I needed to keep my objectivity as much as possible in reading the script and in communicating what needed to be communicated in the film, not subconsciously rely on information that I had from the book that maybe wasn’t being conveyed in the movie, if that makes sense. It needed to stand alone. The story needed to stand alone.

You know, it’s funny, I’ve worked on a bunch of projects that are based on source materials, some more well-known than others. And right now, I’m working on a film that’s very well, the source material is very well known. Once again, I’m choosing not to refer back to that material because we’re doing our own take on it. You know, we did our own take on that.

I think that’s been true pretty much every time, not to treat any material, even the script, as sacrosanct, because you have to listen to the movie, listen to the footage, listen to the performances, and be open to rewrite or rethink things that aren’t 100% what they need to be.”

Andrew Weisblum, Art of the Cut

Production on Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has wrapped in London. Alongside Gerwig and editor Andrew Weisblum, production design was led by James Chinlund, cinematography by Seamus McGarvey, costume design by Jacqueline Durran, and the score by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.

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