Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, starring Belfast actor David McKenna in a leading role, is set for a 2027 release in cinemas and on Netflix.
The film, which marks the first time the Academy-nominated filmmaker has brought one of C. S. Lewis’s beloved Narnia stories to the screen, will open in cinemas on 12 February 2027, with IMAX-only sneak previews beginning on 10 February. It will debut on Netflix on 2 April 2027.
McKenna, who has been a member of the Belfast School of Performing Arts since the age of four, takes on the leading role of Digory Kirke. He previously made his screen debut in a BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies, in which he played Piggy.
He is joined by an ensemble cast featuring The Dry's Ciarán Hinds, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Denise Gough and Susan Wokoma, alongside newcomer Beatrice Campbell.
Speaking about the production, which was inspired by the 1955 publication, Gerwig said: "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...It transformed me."
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is produced by Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Vincent Sieber-Smith, and Gerwig, and executive produced by Patricia Whitcher and Douglas Gresham and Melvin Adams for the C. S. Lewis Estate. The film is co-produced by Christine Crais.
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