EXCLUSIVE: Whereas it’s tremendous early within the dealmaking course of, sources inform Deadline that Netflix and director Greta Gerwig are aiming excessive for his or her subsequent piece of casting on their Chronicles of Narnia film, as Daniel Craig has a suggestion to hitch the solid.
Sources stress that it’s unknown whether or not Craig will in the end come on board, however they do add that he does maintain the supply. Additionally it is unknown who he can be enjoying within the movie.
Even with it being early, the studio and Gerwig are clearly gearing up in an enormous manner with manufacturing set to start out later this yr. Deadline was first to report that Charli XCX was in talks for the position of the white witch.
In 2018, Netflix mentioned it could develop new sequence and movie tasks primarily based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved The Chronicles of Narnia sequence and introduced Gerwig on board in 2020 to adapt and direct the primary film. It stays in early levels, and particulars are scant. As beforehand reported, the film is getting an unique two-week Imax world run for Thanksgiving 2026 upfront of the pic’s drop on the streamer.
If it makes, the deal can be reunion of kinds for Craig and Netflix, with Craig as super-sleuth Benoit Blanc anchoring Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise which has a deal on the streamer. The primary pic in that deal was 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, with the subsequent installment Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller due out later this yr.
Will let you realize extra on Narnia as we discover out.
