{"id":629957,"date":"2026-10-14T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629957\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:14:10","slug":"narnia-fans-react-to-greta-gerwigs-magicians-nephew-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629957\/","title":{"rendered":"Narnia Fans React to Greta Gerwig’s ‘Magicians Nephew’ Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAdapting C.S. Lewis\u2019 beloved children\u2019s book series The Chronicles of Narnia<\/a> is no easy task, and certainly one that\u2019s primed for some online controversy. <\/p>\n

\n\tSo it\u2019s probably no surprise that the trailer (below) for Netflix<\/a>\u2018s adaptation of The Magician\u2019s Nephew \u2014 chronologically the first novel in Lewis\u2019 seven-book series \u2014 is getting some strong reactions on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe adaptation was already receiving some early pushback among conservative media figures before the trailer dropped given that the Christian allegory is being adapted by Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig<\/a>, who also made the sacrilegious-to-some decision to cast Meryl Streep as the voice of the franchise\u2019s Jesus-figure, Aslan. <\/p>\n

\n\tNow the Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew trailer has dropped<\/a> in all its glittery glam rock glory, set to the tune of Led Zeppelin\u2019s famously difficult-to-license \u201cStairway to Heaven,\u201d and reactions are all over the place.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most common pushback concerns the trailer\u2019s psychedelic space-rock visuals, with many comparing the project to a Marvel movie. Some quips from the official YouTube video and across Reddit and X: \u201cNarnia: Rangarok,\u201d \u201cThey managed to Thor: Love & Thunder Narnia,\u201d \u201cGuardians of Narnia\u2019s Galaxy,\u201d \u201cAslan the Lion will return in Avengers: Doomsday.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMany said they loved the trailer and that it surpassed their expectations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe trailer for The Magician\u2019s Nephew is, hands down, the best trailer I\u2019ve seen in years. They\u2019re definitely leaning into the pagan side of Narnia.\u201d Another: \u201cMan people were preemptively fuming over this one but I recognize just about every scene and every line [from the book]. Looks to be a very faithful adaptation with a sort of rock opera twist.\u201d And: \u201cGreta Gerwig going full \u2018Jim Henson\u2019s Dark Crystal\/Labyrinth + Chris Columbus\u2019 Harry Potter + Led Zeppelin + blockbuster budget\u2019 was not on my bingo card, but it looks fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSome agreed that they liked the trailer \u2014 just not as a Narnia adaptation. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cVisually stunning trailer but nothing really jumped out to me indicating that this is a Narnia movie,\u201d wrote one. And: \u201cThis might be the most conflicted I\u2019ve ever felt about a trailer. It looks dope af and honestly like it\u2019s going to have this ethereal awestruck quality to it. I just wish it wasn\u2019t Narnia she was doing this with.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOthers just wholesale bagged on the trailer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho\u2019d have ever guessed that giving a legendary, beloved book series like The Chronicles of Narnia to modern Hollywood would result in a bizarre, disastrous fever dream interpretation with some of the worst looking CGI backgrounds ever put on film?\u201d And: \u201cThis is a prime example of how something can lose its soul to CGI overuse \u2026The visuals of Netflix\u2019s butchering of Narnia literally looks like it was made with AI.\u201d And: \u201cI am extremely unimpressed. This is not Narnia. This is Thor: Love and Thunder and Barbie had a baby. They make the boy a coward, they make the girl the adventurer, and Aslan is supposed to be the pinnacle of masculinity.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast includes David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, with Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Denise Gough and Susan Wokoma. Netflix will release Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew in theaters and Imax on Feb. 12, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adapting C.S. Lewis\u2019 beloved children\u2019s book series The Chronicles of Narnia is no easy task, and certainly one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,109737,409,33068,1094,111,139,69,210325],"class_list":["post-629957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-greta-gerwig","tag-movies","tag-narnia","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-chronicles-of-narnia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}