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Netflix’s Narnia: What We Know

Updated: April 17, 2019

Netflix is developing new content based on The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. This page will be updated regularly to include all known details.

Read the official press release

Series and Movies?

Producer Mark Gordon said this collaboration has “the capacity to translate the Narnia universe into both stellar feature-length and episodic programming.” What does that mean exactly? Listen to our discussion about this on Talking Beasts: The Narnia Podcast.

Not surprisingly, at least some of this content will be live-action.

This is the first time the rights to all seven Narnia books have been held by the same company.

Producers

Mark Gordon, Douglas Gresham, Vincent Sieber (executive producers for series, producers for features)

Studios

  • Netflix
  • Entertainment One (eOne)
  • The C. S. Lewis Company

Showrunner/Director

To be announced.

Screenwriter

To be announced.

Cast

To be announced.

What happened to The Silver Chair movie?

The status of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair has not been officially addressed.

Entertainment One and Sony were developing The Silver Chair with Director Joe Johnston and Screenwriter David Magee. Johnston said he hoped filming would begin in 2018 but that did not happen. As of December 2018, David Magee is not involved with the Netflix productions.

Narnia “universe”?

The original press release included the word “universe” 3 times, which caused some fans to speculate that we would see original content that expanded on the canon of C. S. Lewis. But, that is merely speculation at this point. Nothing of the sort has been officially announced.

In April 2019, Producer Mark Gordon said, “The pitch was that we would be selling not just one movie or one book as a series. There were 3,000 characters in Narnia. So there was this very ripe opportunity.”

Reboot?

Will Netflix start over and do their version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Will they pick up where the Walden Media movies left off and do The Silver Chair? Or perhaps another book? Nothing has been officially announced. Here is what we think:

Release Date

To be announced.

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