Fantasy Greta Gerwig to direct two “The Chronicles of Narnia” films for Netflix

[HBarnill]

Given how Barbie looks, I think she will add quite the spark.

I refuse to believe she had anything to do with Barbie. The person who brought us Lady Bird or Little Women couldn't have given us something as trite, as hopelessly commercial, as hypocritical, and as insulting to the audience's intelligence as Barbie. I suspect studio shenanigans were involved.

 

[Lily Adler]

She absolutely was not the Fairy Godmother, that was Jennifer Saunders.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I refuse to believe she had anything to do with Barbie. The person who brought us Lady Bird or Little Women couldn't have given us something as trite, as hopelessly commercial, as hypocritical, and as insulting to the audience's intelligence as Barbie. I suspect studio shenanigans were involved.

Agree to disagree

 

[Lily Adler]

I refuse to believe she had anything to do with Barbie. The person who brought us Lady Bird or Little Women couldn't have given us something as trite, as hopelessly commercial, as hypocritical, and as insulting to the audience's intelligence as Barbie. I suspect studio shenanigans were involved.

The whole Ken trying to establish the patriarchy in Barbieland and Barbie simply apologizing and owning up to how she treated him seems like a Greta thing.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

The whole Ken trying to establish the patriarchy in Barbieland and Barbie simply apologizing and owning up to how she treated him seems like a Greta thing.

Exactly. The whole point was that none of the Kens were evil, they were just mislead by the ideas spouted by toxic masculinity and RyanKen fell into that hard due to being constantly rejected. Neither he nor Stereotypical Barbie were innocent and they both owned up to their actions in the end. It was honest and very heartfelt and really showed to be just how much of a genuine storyteller Greta Gerwig is. Its why I'm excited for her work on the Snow White remake.

Way better than what Paul Feig did with Ghostbusters.

 

[Drizzle]

D'OH!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Lily Adler]

It's something. This feels like Glass Onion all over again.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It's something. This feels like Glass Onion all over again.

I think Gerwig, like Johnson, are trying to use their leverage to **** with a terrible policy. Good. Support artist caring about the art.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Filmfreak]

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah reading the article that tweet is highly inaccurate. Highly disingenuous. Here is what it actually says in the article:

Imax and Netflix are indeed in preliminary talks regarding Narnia, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. One plan being discussed is to release the event pic over Thanksgiving 2026 before making it available to its subscribers over Christmas. Whether that would be a long-enough window to satisfy theater circuits that operate Imax auditoriums is the big question, and the potential stumbling block.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

So either Jason Isaacs is cast in Magician’s Nephew and dropped that knowledge, or he’s just a fan of Narnia books and read that Gerwig was doing the series.

I presume the former.

 

[Sawyer]

Does this series necessarily lend itself to a rock n roll take…?

 

[psylockolussus]

Well it surely won't be any of the three books, Disney/Fox adapted.

And speaking of that era, I really wish that era managed to adapt all books. When I remember they only managed to adapt 3 out of 6 to 7 books. Divergent not finishing the final book doesn't sound so bad in comparison.

 

[Sithborg]

Does this series necessarily lend itself to a rock n roll take…?

The series with the Jesus analogue lion? Who knows, but it is sure to piss off Fox News and their ilk.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Who knows what that ultimately means until we see the product

 

[DarkKnight88]

The quote is also coming from Amy Pascal who can be… dramatic lol

 

[Pennywise]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

Will we hear the deplorable word?

 

[Mysteryman]

The whole Ken trying to establish the patriarchy in Barbieland and Barbie simply apologizing and owning up to how she treated him seems like a Greta thing.

I thought so too.

 

[Filmfreak]

The news about a wide cinematic release are fantastic if true. That will be a huge thing to finally happen to Netflix and it could possibly lead the way for more deals like that in the future.

This "new take" claim kind of worries me though. I'd be skeptical over something like that.