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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FAFO. Another giant woke bomb in the making.
Another virtue signaling has been washed up Democrat that the movie industry tries its best to recycle. I hope it flops.
Hollyweird now ruins EVERY SINGLE THING!
Alan is male
This is stupid
They do not want people learning or reinforcing morality.
Finally we get a transgender lion. What took them so long?
I’m sure Rachael Zegler could make this movie bomb far more effectively.
Jesus came to earth in MALE human form, Dimwits.
I must be tired.
I first read the title of this thread as,
“Meryl Streep in talks to play Asian in Greta Thunberg’s
Narnia movie.”
James Earl Jones was the only one who would have had the right voice...
Parents are catching on, so this WILL be a big flop!
Is it going to have a mane, like Aslan? To avoid confusion, Meryl's queer-cat character should be called Ass-lan.
Streep has not appeared on the big screen since 2021 when
she was publicly disgraced, caught on tape calling sex
maniac movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, now jailed, a “god,”
Aslan has to have a male voice. A lion is male. A lioness is female. This is reality.
I also noted that Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar” will be played by a black lesbian female actress. Hollywood is sick.
Reinterpreting a work that was written for another time destroys the work. Rather it allows people to erase the mores, considerations, and solutions of the past. The dead can tell us many things.
Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it- George Santayana
To Hollywood, he was a “god”. That’s how amoral Hollywood is. Why does anyone watch or support such perverted philosophy driven material coming from the likes of them?
Talk about being canceled. It’s time we canceled Hollywood. Stop contributing to them. There are hundreds of thousands of works of good entertainment already in the can and watchable.The most modern productions aren’t necessarily good.
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