Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Star Breaks Silence On Casting For Netflix Reboot

Emma Mackey confirms that she has been solid in Greta Gerwig’s Chronicles of Narnia film and addresses her involvement for the primary time. As a substitute of adapting The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film is tackling The Magician’s Nephew. It’s chronologically the primary e-book within the collection written by C.S. Lewis, despite the fact that it was the sixth installment to be revealed.

Netflix has not formally introduced a solid but, however most of the key roles have beforehand been reported for the story that explores the creation of Narnia itself. A key member of the reported solid is Emma Mackey as Jadis, the White Witch.

Throughout an interview with MovieWeb, Mackey was requested what she will tease from her reported casting and if there are variations from earlier iterations of the character. Whereas she can not reveal any particular particulars, Mackey confirms her involvement with the film and emphasizes the “fantastic course of” of working with Gerwig once more and being on set. Try her feedback beneath:

Properly, there’s zilch I can let you know about it aside from it is a fantastic, fantastic course of to date, and it is an journey. And Greta is somebody that I’ve immense respect for, and who’s a pal and a life pressure. And I am simply very lucky to be on one in all her units. Really.

This marks Mackey’s second collaboration with Gerwig after beforehand starring in Barbie (2023), the place she performed the position of Physicist Barbie. She joins Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet as actors who’ve appeared in a number of Gerwig motion pictures, with Ronan and Chalamet each having starred in Woman Fowl and Little Ladies.

Tilda Swinton performed Jadis in Disney’s 2005 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. If Mackey is enjoying Jadis, it will likely be a youthful model of the character since The Magician’s Nephew takes place at an earlier level within the timeline of The Chronicles of Narnia books.

Different reported members of the solid embody David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell as Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, the 2 kids who journey to the Wooden Between the Worlds and Narnia, and Carey Mulligan as Digory’s mom, Mabel Kirke. Denise Gough, who’s greatest recognized for enjoying Dedra Meero in Andor, has additionally shared that she is enjoying “somebody imply” within the movie, though her character’s id stays underneath wraps.

Though the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia adaptation is a Netflix film, it will likely be launched in theaters on November 26, 2026 for a four-week run earlier than it begins streaming on December 25. Netflix historically retains their motion pictures unique to their streaming platform or solely provides them a restricted theatrical launch. This can be a vital shift in technique for Netflix, and one which Mackey is now formally a part of as she reunites with Gerwig.