FIRST LOOK At Greta Gerwig's Narnia 👀🎬

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and naturally many share your sentiment

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Greta hasn't missed yet, but this is shaping up to be very controversial to say the least. Changing up a very traditional book series is going to ruffle a lot of feathers. The Meryl Streep casting borders on trolling. Fearing for this one and Greta's career.

They took "Only in Cinema" way too literally.

Guess you didn’t see Barbie

@kirederf7862 is that what they said, or did you want to be upset? Literally said they should be allowed to its just not for them. You are the worst

@kirederf7862 Read it again.

@kirederf7862 there should be free courses online for reading comprehension if you're interested.

WW84 is not good. I say this as a huge Wonder Woman fan (and I do still own it physically lmao)

@kirederf7862They were making literally the opposite point 😂

@benchevy6969clearly I misread the comment.

Agreed!!

The greatest actress arguably ever being casted is never a poor choice lol.
Aslan is a christ like character already super disrespectful to the ORIGINAL one then by your logic anyways.

@henrycavillsrealmustache3553 Firstly, aslan is a lion not a lioness so it just doesn’t make sense. Also I feel like this is going out of the way to piss off the fans of the books especially for those more religiously inclined. I get that’s it’s an interpretation but it can subjectively still be a bad choice. Like I wouldn’t want Meryl Streep to play T’Challa in black panther even if she undoubtedly is one of the best actresses of all time.

@inghell people LOVE using Black Panther as an example… when this has no correlation at all.
T’challa is a black man from africa whose core emotional weight in most his stories revolve around that.
Aslan is a LION. What ethnicity is a lion? 😂 so you can only be mad about a gender swap which Black Panther has also been a girl. 💀 Lions aren’t petitioning for better representation in media. It doesnt matter

I would bet against that. It might be mediocre, but it'll be at least competent (which doesn't necessarily mean it will be good). She's proven she can direct it. Bad movies are typically poorly written. She gets that and the casting right, she'll be fine.

She's took good to mess it up "bad". At worst, it will be mediocre.

No, it looks bad. Wtf is the costume design and Charn image. Do your own thing Greta

Are you implying the music of his childhood had no influence on the music he would go on to make?

@n@nefariousjakehat’s literally how she is described in the books

How dare people produce their own interpretations 😂

​@ChromeOfTheFutureliterally it's not
“When she stood up they realized that she was even taller than they had thought. And you could see at once, not only from her crown and robes, but from the flash of her eyes and the curve of her lips, that she was a great queen.” Pg. 59. She is consistently described as terrifyingly tall, beautiful, and otherworldly. Honestly, I thought the tilda swinton take worked way better than this.
“Hardly human” is what Digory thinks when he looks at her… this looks like a teenage girl going to an Olivia Rodrigo concert.

@henrycavillsrealmustache3553 Asian isn’t a Christ like character he is Christ.

I hope not that said i like Wrinkle In Time i have it on dvd

@ChromeOfTheFuture you are misunderstanding what a film adaptation should be. Film studios make adaptations because there is a built in audience, yet no fan of Narnia wants to see someone “reinterpret” a story and world they already love, they want to see the story they love faithfully and respectfully brought to the screen. Since that is clearly not happening with this, that built in audience won’t be there to watch this….. SOOO why not just make an original fantasy rock opera movie set in the 50s London? Why does she need to bastardize Narnia to do that? It leaves fans feeling like the world they love has been hijacked and used by the director to tell a totally different story.

as it should be!😊

Why should it be… that’s not accurate to the book…

Why should it ?

It’s not “fixing”, it’s reimagining. Nothing wrong with that.

She meant to keep expectations down to avoid potential disappointment

Magicians nephew was never a movie tho… it’ll be the first movie adaptation of the book.

@AShreads55 Aslan is a stand-in for Jesus; to make him female is a blatant perversion of that. Magician's Nephew is set about 50 or 60 years BEFORE Lion Witch Wardrobe, which is supposed to be in 1940s. the only reason to change the time period is so you can talk about Nazis. It's not supposed to be some goofy, psychedelic romp. It features an evil witch who kills everyone in her kingdom and wants to come to our world. It's also about the "Genesis" of Narnia and features similar parallels. It's an unapologetic Christian allegory. No one who makes Aslan female respects that.

@jfejfe590 people don't like you

Tilda Swinton was the Ice Queen, are you dumb?

This is not that story. This story happens way before first book.

@okpal83the Magician's Nephew is supposed to be set in the 1900-1910 area so that the lion the witch and the wardrobe can take place in the early 1940's during WW2, so my point still stands

It's absolutely insulting when they take a piece of art and try to make it better. That's what reimagining is. It's arrogant and always ends being utter crap.

@nooa69agree to disagree 😂

@deaner2088 The moralizing and allegoricaly ridgity of the books defintely requires a re-write - just don't watch.

@AShreads55Greta g has constantly “fixed” the books she makes into movies. That’s the point. There’s nothing wrong with reimagining things- but this is destruction. There’s no imagination left. Just some weird slop that we’re supposed to accept.
Give me a good reimagining any day. This is not that.

@ChromeOfTheFuturethey said it was going to follow the books

Top tier reference

​@AnnaCollins-s4p The movie isn't out yet, how do you know this is slop? It's like we have this same conversations over and over. Just last month it was The Odyssey that proved to be a fantastic re-telling, despite all the loud racists and bigots crying and cursing for months on end, then came the Harry Potter with a Black Snape - backclash, and now this. Can't you people ever wait to actually watch something before sharpening your pitchforks?

​@SaffariRoseits called pattern recognition. Every IP that's been adapted in the last 10 years at least has had some major change made which breaks the stories.

She's not "enhancing" the source material at all. She's raging against it. I'm sure there will be people who enjoy this movie- but none of them will be the people who understand and love the true heart and meaning behind this series. Greta is talented for sure. But she doesn't respect the author or his vision- she actually despises the heart behind it and is doing everything in her power to dismantle it, take the skeletal remains of the story and then create her OWN message with it. And again, she has the RIGHT to do that I suppose- but no one who treasures the message of this story will appreciate that one bit. But like I said, I'm sure that those who DON'T treasure it will enjoy it just fine. But the rest of us will want nothing to do with it.

Sadly, it probably won't tank. I'm sure it will with people like US who actually understand and love the true message and meaning behind these stories- but sadly we're a dying breed. This movie is proof that so many have "lost the message", and unfortunately there will be plenty of others who will be perfectly happy to consume the lost message this director puts out.

Exactly- the population that lost the message, or never understood it to begin with.

She means she loves the Chronicles of Narnia and the glimpses into this complete fart in the face of Lewis's message is not filling her with much hope, so she's going in with low expectations to avoid getting crushed when she's inevitably disappointed.

Wokeism

@henrycavillsrealmustache3553 Aslan IS Christ in the actual series. He literally comes out and says it in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. You would know that if you actually read and understood the books. So I have no clue what you're saying when you say that's somehow disrespectful to the original one. You can't be expected to know everything, I sure as heck don't. But it's always a good practice to not say something if you don't know what the heck you're talking about.

She doesn't just "not respect" it- she clearly HATES the true meaning behind it and is doing everything she can to rage against it. I won't be going near it. I'm sure some people will really enjoy this, but it won't be anyone who truly understands and loves the real meaning behind the series.

@JB-gt5no Yeah, it sucked.

No obviously. I’m saying that the connection they are trying to make for the time swap doesn’t hold up.

About time.

​@partyfitnessexperience3857this is true and yet the fact the movie off the bat has so much away from the source material is a spat on the face of CS Lewis's work.

Me too! Will be definitely skipping this. Makes me sad, I love the Narnia books.

Gerwig's version is giving peak "I hate my dad" energy

My guess is that the '50s setting is setting up a contemporary setting for the following films (making the Professor about 80 in TLTWATW - much older than he could have been in the books, but then he SEEMED much older than what 2026 thinks of a man in his fifties as being), which was probably deemed necessary because Netflix assumes that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are incapable of relating to any character who isn't exactly like themselves and doesn't share an identical worldview, and that a story set during the WWII London Blitz evacuation would be so alien to them that they would find it impossible to understand.

It's SO sacrilegious to Aslan who represents Jesus. Greta is trying to destroy the idea of God the Father in this movie. And the rock style. For Narnia!? Not if you understand the original material and messages in it.
If C.S Lewis was still alive, he never would've sold the rights to her. If he saw this movie, he would've been disgusted and horrified.

Don't be decieved, this movie is spitting in the face of Jesus and a, perhaps unwitting, attack against christians everywhere.

Except what helicopter late Gen X or Millennial parent would have the unmitigated chutzpah to send their unaccompanied minor to somebody else's home. I speak as a millennial parent who vets people for kid hangout playdate parents like everyone's 'bout to snatch up my children.
We can't even send our kids out to play by themselves anymore without being secretly blacklisted by the Goodiest Parentals Society.
Sorry. The mixed messaging in this comment is real.
The point is that Millennials such as myself could sort of understand the choice to send kids off to live with randos because that's better than getting blown up. I doubt Gen Z or Alpha will have many participants that can get past that and into the whole religiosity thing, let alone pick up the actual message(s) this book was intended to convey.

Yeah. Strawberry becoming Fledge basically makes the end of the book possible. Are there really enough (or any) horsedrawn cabs in '50s london to make that — possible?
Is Strawberry going to be the name of the taxi cab that then comes to life, grows wings, and becomes an aeroplane?

​@dakotahrickard😂😂😂 Exactly 😂

@Taliesin69 Gen Z doesn't read books so who cares what they want to see? These books were read by millennials.

@NiaLaLa_V "Who cares"? Seriously? Um.... how about film studios that don't want to go bankrupt? A film this expensive, based on a children's book, that appeals to nobody under thirty, is doomed to flop. OBVIOUSLY the target demographic for this kind of film is always going to be young people, and the studio suits are going to want it to be skewed towards whatever it is that they think young people want to see. Whether or not that audience is likely to have read the book is completely irrelevant.

Anyway, why are you singling out Millennials as if the book somehow belongs to them? This book was published 71 years ago, when even the oldest Baby-boomers were only eight or nine years old. It had three generations of fans before the first Millennial was born.

@dakotahrickard The religious allegory aspect was always completely opaque to the books' readership anyway. No ten year old reading TLTWATW in the 1950s would have spontaneously thought to themselves "oh, I get it. Aslan is Jesus"

If this film is set in the 1950s, then the following films could be set anywhere between the 90s and today, depending on how old they cast the Professor. Obviously, the evacuation subplot can't apply, so they'll probably just make the Professor a relative whose house in the country they spend the summer holidays in or something. They'll make the kids' parents busy professionals who want to get them out if the house.

And everyday after

Agreed. It's also my favourite book and I was so excited about finally getting a screen adaptation. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen it, but I'm not feeling optimistic.

Stood the test of time? I've barely heard ANYONE talk about Narnia in the last 15 years. I barely even hear people talk about the movies. The popularity of this series has tanked

She did and won oscars for it which is why she is allowed to deconstruct

So shush

@senthilvelan7490you aren’t allowed to shush creative constructive criticism. That’s really dangerous

​@senthilvelan7490 😂😂😂
Wow! Touchy touchy. It's just a statement of opinion.
Just because people like deconstruction or make money off of it doesn't mean I have to like it or even think it's a good idea. The act of undoing Narnia takes a lot less creativity than that of Lewis to create the world in the first place. A creative and cyncial middle schooler could do it in an afternoon.

​@chill_gal7625alright, Now Shush and let the "People who matter" do their work in peace.

​@senthilvelan7490😂😂

@christineallen3808 there’s no reason to see it, just read the book again.

@T@TikiTyler9’m not sure you understand just how poorly this will do, CS Lewis is such a beloved pillar of the Christian community, and the last attempt to make Prince Caspian more dramatic by adding scenes not in the book pissed us off and we noped out on that and on Voyage of The Dawn Treader so hard that they had to end the series immediately despite the first movie being so successful. Walden Media lost the media rights and had to cease operating as an independent studio because they lost so much money on the 2nd and 3rd Narnia films. It was a conscious decision, people were consciously boycotting it when it came out because of the creative liberties that undermined the message. The new version is orders of magnitude worse, and the only reason any more of these might be made is if the money is already spent, and they are already well into production filming more.

There is zero goodwill left towards Hollywood after the past decade of increasingly preachy social films, nearly every movie that Marvel or Disney has released that has any level of “the message” has lost hundreds of millions despite nostalgia and IP and all-star casfs, and so many mid-budget star driven dramas flopped that the genre is nearly extinct and studios have been coalescing and being sold because they can no longer make money on anything except their legacy streaming libraries.

New Line Cinema had to shut down completely after pulling in billions from LOTR because they marketed The Golden Compass to children.

Amazon had to fill their streaming platform with ads to pay for the catastropic financial fallout of their modern take on LOTR.