{"id":632113,"date":"2026-10-16T05:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632113\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:48:13","slug":"greta-gerwig-on-securing-led-zeppelins-stairway-to-heaven-for-narnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632113\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Gerwig On Securing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” For ‘Narnia’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Netflix debuted the first trailer<\/a> for Greta Gerwig<\/a>\u2018s Narnia<\/a>: The Magician\u2019s Nephew this week, fans were treated to an iconic needle drop.<\/p>\n

\n\tGerwig recently explained how she was able to persuade Led Zeppelin<\/a> to let her license \u201cStairway to Heaven<\/a>\u201d for the feature adaptation of C.S. Lewis\u2019 prequel book, after the band has notoriously shot down all previous requests to feature the 1971 song onscreen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI showed them and I talked to them, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and I was so moved that they allowed me to use the song,\u201d Gerwig told Stephen Colbert at a Q&A<\/a>. \u201cThey did it because they saw the heart of the story in the film and they too love C.S. Lewis, and they have a reverence for his work. The whole thing was very fortuitous. But I\u2019m so happy that it got to be this song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGerwig explained that the song was \u201cexactly the story\u201d of the movie. \u201cIt\u2019s an epic song. It\u2019s an amazing song. It\u2019s a narrative. It\u2019s about a spiritual journey,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s about the true path of enlightenment and spirituality, and then this path of false idols and the wrong roads you can go down,\u201d added Gerwig. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018This is exactly the story of this movie.\u2019 It really is a spiritual quest and a spiritual journey, so to me, this was the song that made sense to introduce this into the world. But this song, they had not let it be used in anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious failed attempts to license \u201cStairway to Heaven\u201d include a 1995 episode of The Simpsons, Almost Famous (2000) and last year\u2019s Stranger Things finale, while Mike Myers poked fun at the band\u2019s protectiveness of the track in a scene from Wayne\u2019s World (1992). <\/p>\n

\n\tPremiering February 12 in Imax before its April 2 Netflix debut, Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew follows two children Digory (David McKenna) and Polly (Beatrice Campbell) as they explore the office of Digory\u2019s Uncle Andrew (Daniel Craig) and end up in a magical wood filled with pools that lead to other worlds. One pool takes them to a dead city, where they awaken its queen (Emma Mackey) who exterminated its population, accidentally setting her loose on London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Netflix debuted the first trailer for Greta Gerwig\u2018s Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew this week, fans were treated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,109737,15132,409,33068,308882,111,139,69,309956],"class_list":["post-632113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-greta-gerwig","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-movies","tag-narnia","tag-narnia-the-magicians-nephew","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stairway-to-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632113","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=632113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}