Beyond new editions, board books, and storybooks based on C.S Lewis\u2019s The Magician\u2019s Nephew, Narnia fans can add a \u201cmaking of\u201d book to that growing list.<\/p>\n
Tom Shone, film critic and author<\/a> of seven books about film including The Nolan Variations, Tarantino: A Retrospective, and Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, will be releasing a new book based on the production of Greta Gerwig\u2019s film adaptation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shone also happens to be a noted Narnia fan. He told\u00a0The Creative Adventure<\/a>\u00a0in 2023 that his life was \u201caltered\u201d after reading all seven books and considers them his first taste of escapism growing up, \u201cI just wanted to live in that world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n While we don\u2019t know exactly which direction the book will take yet, his 2019 book<\/a> chronicling another Netflix production, Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Irishman, may give fans a hint as to what to expect.<\/p>\n That featured \u201cspecial on-set photography, studio portraits, unit photography and a text by author and film critic Tom Shone\u201d alongside interviews with the film\u2019s cast and creative team taking readers \u201cbehind the scenes and examines the making of The Irishman in the context of Scorsese\u2019s expansive career.\u201d<\/p>\n NarniaWeb first learned in April that Shone had spent time on set during filming of Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew throughout 2025.<\/p>\n