Posted on 04/04/2025 10:20:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Meryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia film, according to reports. According to Nexus Point News, and confirmed by Deadline Streep, 75, is being lined up to star in Netflix’s film, which will be adapted from The Magician’s Nephew – the sixth of CS Lewis Narnia series of novels, but the first in chronological terms.
In the Narnia books, Aslan is a dignified and quasi-omniscient lion, generally seen to be male and usually interpreted as an allegory for Jesus. The Magician’s Nephew centres on two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, who discover the magical world through Digory’s uncle Andrew. Daniel Craig is also in talks for the film, with speculation rising that he will play the uncle. Charli XCX is also in line for a role, rumoured to be Jadis, the White Witch.
The film will be Gerwig’s first since megahit Barbie, which earned over $1.4bn at the global box office. She signed on as part of Netflix’s 2018 optioning of Lewis’s series in 2020; the film will be screened globally in Imax in Thanksgiving 2026 before moving to streaming.
Streep previously appeared in in another of Gerwig’s takes on a classic of children’s literature: the 2019 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The actor has not appeared on the big screen since her role in 2021’s Don’t Look Up, but is rumoured to be returning to make a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada later this year.
Ronald Pickup and David Suchet are among the actors who have voiced Aslan in celebrated BBC TV and radio productions of The Chronicles of Narnia, while Liam Neeson took the role in the three Narnia films made between 2005 and 2010.
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In other words, she’s only going to be the voice of Aslan?
CS Lewis' estate kept pretty tight control over the property. Something bad must have happened if Streep is even being considered for the role.
They may be woke now. The last film was 20 years ago.
They Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was very well done, IMHO, very true to the book. I was a little disappointed in Prince Caspian, but thought they bounced back nicely with Voyage of the Dawn Trader, which is probably my favorite of the Chronicles
Yes Connery also
I can’t see Mamma Mia as Aslan
I wanted them to finish the 2005 2010 trilogy. Some said the next film was going to be a horse and his boy and that backing was not available because it would insult moslims
Agreed. I’d like to see that production company finish the other 3 films.
We can make this film empty theaters as much as we helped empty them for Snow White.
There is another issue here.
Snow White was a cultural film with mass appeal. The original Disney cartoon placed it in the center of popular culture.
Narnia plays to a select audience. Beloved, but plays to a Christian crowd formost. And this is a crowd that doesn’t like their stories manipulated.
They will lose big. Obamas still consulting there? Who is paying them to cut the legs off of Netflix?
Oh?
When my progeny were in lower school at an old, elite, well known in some circles, private day school, NOT affiliated with any religion/church, The Lion, The Wit, and The Wardrobe was required reading in the third or fourth grade and the students were encouraged to read the rest of the Narnia books for pleasure.
That was quite a bit ago, I don't know IF that school still has it as REQUIRED reading, but most of the kids DID go on and read the other books.
The elites reading lists included Lewis’s Lion Witch and Wardrobe because elite education was built on Christian based civic religion.
Not seeing that anymore. Christian and civic homeschoolers and the vanishing small numbers of Christian schools and perhaps a protected elite or two are reading and discussing the books that our children had 20 and 30 years ago.
Obviously you are completely unfamiliar with the kinds of school I referred to. I don't care WHICH state you want to talk about, back in the 1950s... these books were NOT used in these VERY ELITE day school. Neither were the read in ALL of them in the '70s, nor today!
And until the first one was required reading, for my own, I'd NEVER even heard of these books and I have always been an avid reader, from the time I could read and before that, was read to.
Not a bad series of books, I have no complaint re kids reading them, however, I DO have major complaints regarding the dumbing down of what kids, ALL KIDS, no matter WHERE they go to school/are home schooled, as part of their corriculums.
Yes dear.
Thanks for the warning.
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