BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Intercourse Training) is about to play the White Witch in Netflix‘s Narnia film from filmmaker Greta Gerwig, sources have confirmed to Deadline. She takes over a task to which Charli xcx had beforehand been linked. The explanations for the musician’s departure aren’t clear.
Netflix declined to remark. Mackey joins a solid that can even embody Daniel Craig, as uncle of Digory Kirke, and Meryl Streep as lion Aslan the Nice.
The movie will reportedly adapt The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth novel within the Narnia collection from writer C.S. Lewis, which tells the origin story of Narnia. The story facilities on Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, who uncover the magical world of Narnia by Digory’s uncle’s magic. Manufacturing is predicted to happen subsequent yr.
Netflix revealed in 2018 that it will develop new collection and movie initiatives based mostly on Lewis’s beloved The Chronicles of Narnia collection, bringing Gerwig on board to put in writing and direct the primary film in 2020. As beforehand reported, the movie will get an unique two-week Imax world run for Thanksgiving 2026 prematurely of its debut on the streamer.
Beforehand collaborating with Gerwig on her Warner Bros phenomenon Barbie, Mackey is greatest identified for her function as Maeve Wiley on Netflix’s hit collection Intercourse Training. Different movie credit embody Emily, through which she performed writer Emily Brontë, and Kenneth Branagh’s Demise on the Nile. Upcoming, she’ll be seen enjoying the title function in James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay, additionally starring in J.J. Abrams’ untitled new film and Julia Ducournau’s Alpha.
Selection was first to the information of Mackey’s Narnia casting.
