Following Greta Gerwig making Barbie a good greater cultural phenomenon together with her 2023 blockbuster, the filmmaker is at present onerous at work getting her Narnia film prepared for manufacturing for the individuals who have a Netflix subscription to look at in 2026. Forward of filming reportedly scheduled for this summer season, casting rumors are beginning to floor. After Charli XCX’s identify got here up for the function of The White Witch final week, Daniel Craig has turn out to be the second identify to be related to the challenge. Nevertheless, the function he’s up for isn’t what I anticipated.
Daniel Craig Is Reportedly In Talks For Narnia, However As An Surprising Character
As Deadline reported on Wednesday afternoon, the previous James Bond actor allegedly “has a suggestion” to star within the Narnia film. Whereas that report doesn’t identify the character he’s being eyed for, What’s On Netflix claims he’s being thought-about for the function of Andrew Ketterly, a.okay.a. Uncle Andrew.
In case your thoughts is working a clean over who that’s, it’s most likely as a result of the character has by no means been tailored in the prior Narnia films. Whereas the Walt Disney Photos movie sequence began with the primary e book within the sequence, Greta Gerwig is reportedly skipping to the sixth e book within the sequence, The Magician’s Nephew. The e book was printed in 1955 after the primary 5 books, however serves as a prequel to all the opposite books earlier than it. In truth, should you had the set of books as a child like I did, it was most likely marked as the primary one.
In any case, Daniel Craig’s alleged character of Uncle Andrew could be the primary antagonist of the story who has a relatively intriguing story. He’s a self-proclaimed magician who wanders upon precise magic when his godmother offers him a magical field on his deathbed with calls for for him to destroy it. He doesn’t destroy it and makes use of its magic to carry out experiments – which inadvertently results in the invention of Narnia by people. For those who recall The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, he would have been a really, very previous man or lifeless by the point the Pevensies discover the world via the wardrobe.
I Would Have Thought Daniel Craig Would Play Narnia’s Aslan
Studying about what Greta Gerwig is reportedly engaged on together with her Narnia films definitely has me , however confused on her manner into the story given the e book she’s beginning with. I particularly would have guessed Daniel Craig extra because the lion king of Narnia, Aslan, particularly given his commanding voice, however Gerwig clearly has a really completely different imaginative and prescient for her adaptation than what we’ve seen earlier than. I believe I’ll simply belief Greta Gerwig both manner, particularly after what she did with one Little Girls character in her adaptation.
Daniel Craig definitely has an ongoing partnership with Netflix, given his third Knives Out film, Wake Up Lifeless Man, is about for this fall. It’s been a very long time since I’ve learn the Narnia books, however seeing Craig play a villain sounds scrumptious! Now we simply want to listen to phrase about Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan incomes roles after they missed the boat on Barbie.