Production on Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation of The Chronicles Of Narnia is underway in the UK for Netflix.
Filming will be primarily based at Shepperton Studios in Surrey with some location shooting already spotted in central London.
The cast includes Emma Mackey, Daniel Craig and Carey Mulligan while there are unconfirmed reports that Meryl Streep was in talks to take on the voice of Aslan the lion. Amy Pascal is producing.
Narnia is scheduled for a global two-week Imax release in November 2026, before it hits Netflix at Christmastime later that year.
Gerwig penned the screenplay which is reportedly adapted from C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew – the sixth novel in the Narnia series and a prequel to The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. The story centres on two children who are sent into a magical world where they find Aslan and witness the creation of Narnia.
This is the second project Gerwig has shot in the UK following her 2023 mega hit Barbie which shot at Warner Bros Leavesden and went on to gross over $1.4bn at the box office.
Netflix first acquired the rights to Lewis’s books in 2018 and confirmed Gerwig as writer-director in 2020. The last screen adaptation came via Disney which produced and distributed films based on the first three novels between 2005 and 2010.