Narnia The Magician’s Nephew is coming in the first part of 2027

Great Gerwig’s film is hopefully the first of several.

What do we know about Narnia The Magician’s Nephew

We have been tracking this project for some time, and the latest press release firms up dates and gives some pictures. The film will release in IMAX and wide globally in cinemas on February 12, 2027, and on Netflix on April 2, 2027. Sneak previews only in IMAX will begin on February 10, 2027.

Written for the screen and directed by Gerwig the origin story for Narnia is the first ever adaptation of Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew and pairs newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell with an all-star cast that includes Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith with Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, and more. Lewis’s book series captured Gerwig’s imagination from a very young age, and she’s beyond thrilled to bring her singular vision to this beloved world.

If you want a taste of what’s to come, there are several pictures in the press release linked, of which we picked the one above. And if you want some context, first published in 1955, The Magician’s Nephew “shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began,” as the novel’s opening lines read, and leads to the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which launched in 1950. The seven Narnia books have sold more than 120 million copies across 70 different countries worldwide and have been adapted into more than 60 different languages to date.

The Chronicles of Narnia series includes:

 The Magician’s Nephew (1955)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

The Horse and His Boy (1954)

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

The Silver Chair (1953)

The Last Battle (1956).

We’re not expecting a trailer until nearer Christmas. We’ll keep you posted.