Netflix’s ‘Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’ Gets Release Date, Theatrical Rollout

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By Michael Foust, Crosswalk.com

The Netflix adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew has a release date – and it’s opening on the big screen.

The much-anticipated adaptation from Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Barbie) will debut with IMAX screenings and a global theatrical rollout on Feb. 12, 2027, with sneak previews beginning Feb. 10 before it arrives on Netflix on April 2, 2027.

Titled Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, it is the first-ever Netflix theatrical film with a wide release and a traditional theatrical window – even if it’s only 51 days.

Patricia Whitcher, Douglas Gresham, and Melvin Adams for the C.S. Lewis Estate are executive producers. Gerwig directed it.

Lewis wrote The Magician’s Nephew as a Narnia origin story and released it in 1955. Netflix describes the film – and by extension the entire Narnia franchise – as a “rare phenomenon that spans generations and geographies.” Netflix pledges it will “match the scale and fandom of C.S. Lewis’s beloved books.”

The cast includes newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell, along with Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

“Working with Netflix to bring this film to life has been extraordinary, and IMAX continues to be an incredible partner. I cannot wait for people to see the film in theaters,” Gerwig said.

Gerwig grew up as a fan of Lewis’ works.

“I was a child when I first read The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life,” Gerwig said. “I didn’t know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart. It is the honor of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being. Because of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds and adventure.

“I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic. That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me. … It transformed me.”

The C.S. Lewis Company said Gerwig “has embraced C.S. Lewis’s world, and infused Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew with joy, heart, and genuine love for the story.”

“We’re so excited for audiences everywhere to experience her vision – and to share the magic of Narnia with a whole new generation,” the C.S. Lewis Company said.

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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

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