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Since then we’ve had one major announcement and a lot of nothing. Here’s everything we know about Netflix’s The Chronicles of Narnia adaptations as of September 2021. Note: This is an ongoing article that’ll be updated over time as we learn more – last updated: September 23rd, 2021.
The book series biggest adaptation came in 2005 when Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media released the first movie entitled: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. Lewis Company dropped back in October 2018. Netflix has a “multi-year deal” whereby it will have multiple film and series projects on the go all based on the books of Narnia exclusively.
Lewis Company, Netflix will develop classic stories from across the Narnia universe into series and films for its members worldwide. Matthew Aldrich becomes “architect” on Narnia Universe for Netflix in 2019 Months after waiting for more information on Narnia on Netflix, finally, we got some news on June 12th, 2019. Lewis’ beloved Narnia universe for Netflix” “Coco” co-writer Matthew Aldrich will serve as the creative architect and oversee the development of all films and shows adapted from C.S. Lewis’ beloved Narnia universe for Netflix pic.twitter.com/k77EG6f9N4 — Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) June 12, 2019 In January 2020, Narniaweb posted that Douglas Gresham (stepson of C. S. Lewis) has little knowledge of where Netflix is at with production.
His two kids are a testing room.” Since the architect announcement, it’s been very quiet from Netflix as lots of planning goes into the various projects. Where will The Chronicles of Narnia on Netflix start from?
You can hear more on a discussion from the Narniaweb podcast below where they speculate it may make sense to start with Magician’s Nephew this time around. What Narnia projects are in development Thanks to IMDBpro, we’re able to see the first three Netflix projects involving Narnia via Matthew Alrich’s profile. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (Treatment stage but expected to be an old project) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (this is the cancelled final Disney movie and therefore isn’t expected to go ahead) Other Narnia News In January 2020, Narniafans posted that a new documentary was in development surrounding C.S. For many, this was the first time many had heard Netflix is adapting the books.