Greta Gerwig

We have our first look at the trailer for Narnia, The Magician's Nephew.

The new film from Greta Gerwig will premiere on February 12, 2027.

Michelle Franzen, ABC News.

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I think it's not anyone.

But I think I had underestimated how fiercely people latched onto Greta Gerwig's Little Women, which I shouldn't have because it's a great movie.

And I think in retrospect, I think at the time, too, it was like...

She's going to win her Oscar for, like, playing the umpteenth version of Jo March for Little Women.

On the focus story, Billy, we've been on this, but Narnia fans are still in an outrage over the upcoming Netflix rendition of The Magician's Nephew.

Yeah, there is a petition with over 8,000 signatures on it calling for the director, Greta Gerwig, to be replaced in future films and so much more.

So we'll break down some of that today on the show.

All right.

There is a man named Chaz Migliacci.

He's a longtime CS Lewis enthusiast.

He's a military veteran and he launched a change.org petition calling on Netflix to replace director Greta Gerwig for future installments of the franchise.

His petition is called Save Narnia's Legacy.

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If I was going to do recent so-called indie directors, I would definitely include Greta Gerwig, although she's no longer an indie director.

Exactly.

Andrew

Alistair, there's lots to be said about the enduring power of the Chronicles of Narnia, the fact that they're still being read, but also turned into films years later.

And Greta Gerwig said that Lewis helped her to believe, I'll just read this bit of the quote, that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic.

What do you think it is about Lewis that makes ordinary life feel enchanted, that we're swept into this epic?

One thing that strikes me very much about Lewis is his telling a powerful story in the Chronicles of Narnia, which is almost saying, look, there's this everyday world in which we're living, thinking things through, making decisions, trying to cope with the difficulties and suffering of life.

I think that's a theme that's really worth affirming because it speaks very powerfully to an awful lot of people today who feel disempowered and inadequate.

They need to see themselves in a new way and realize there's hope.

Alistair, if you could sit down with Greta Gerwig with one chapter or one section of the book and say to her, everything you need to understand in the story is here, which section do you think you'd choose?

With Magician's Nephew, it's difficult for me to do that.

Yeah, I mean, it reminded me of a new favorite quote of mine that we've been saying at work a lot, which is, none of it happened and all of it's true, which comes from the author Ann Patchett when she was describing her book Commonwealth.

Greta Gerwig also used a version of that to describe Lady Bird.

Oh, yeah.

That is...

which is nice.

I know that people like Greta Gerwig and Ben Affleck, the talk around town is that he's a very blunt speaker and not every director and creative person liked how he handled things.

But that apparently was not the case with David Fincher.

So like, he's not this horrible boogeyman that it would be nice to pin all the blame on.

And I think that's part of the fascination with everyone on this project.

Well, there's a piece coming out that is written and directed by Greta Gerwig, the woman that created the Barbie film and who is an extraordinarily accomplished actor as well as director and producer.

And we'll talk more about that another time.

Our concern is that there is a significant rewrite going on and people should be aware of that happening and and that there's significant danger involved in regards to people thinking that two things are the same and in fact they are not and so we just want people to know we're watching it we're going to continue to watch it we're going to cover it on the public square both in this program and in all the rest of our programs and kids on the square as well as time unfolds