Details of Greta Gerwig's long-awaited Narnia movie for Netflix have been confirmed

Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie has finally confirmed its title, cast, and release date.

The Barbie director has been attached to the project since 2020, two years after it was announced by Netflix, and it has now been confirmed the first of the new adaptations of C.S. Lewis' beloved children's book series will hit cinemas on 12 February, 2027 under the name Narnia: The Magician's Nephew.

And following previous speculation, it has been confirmed the film - which will drop on Netflix on 2 April, 2027 - will have a star-studded cast including the likes of Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Mackey and Denise Gough.

Greta, 42, hailed the project the "honour of a lifetime".

She said in a statement: “I was a child when I first read The Magician's Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life.

“I didn't know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart.

"It is the honour of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being. Because of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds and adventure.

"I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept up into an epic. That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me.”