Overview
- Netflix released the first official trailer and new poster for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew on Tuesday, giving audiences the first full look at Greta Gerwig’s adaptation.
- The marketing materials confirm the principal cast and release plan with IMAX previews beginning February 10, 2027, a wide theatrical release on February 12, 2027, and streaming on Netflix on April 2, 2027.
- Gerwig is credited as writer, director and a producer and has reimagined the story as a music‑driven ‘rock opera’ set in the 1950s rather than the original early 1900s.
- The trailer is scored to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” which Gerwig says Robert Plant and Jimmy Page approved, and the choice has intensified public debate about the film’s aesthetic and casting choices, including Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan.
- Netflix secured the Narnia rights in 2018 and is positioning this theatrical window as a test for a planned multi‑film initiative that would extend the franchise if box office and audience reaction support it.