BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Intercourse Schooling) is ready to play the White Witch in Netflix‘s Narnia film from filmmaker Greta Gerwig, sources have confirmed to Deadline. She takes over a job 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 forged that will 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 creator 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 way of Digory’s uncle’s magic. Manufacturing is anticipated to happen subsequent 12 months.
Netflix revealed in 2018 that it might develop new collection and movie tasks based mostly on Lewis’s beloved The Chronicles of Narnia collection, bringing Gerwig on board to jot down 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 position as Maeve Wiley on Netflix’s hit collection Intercourse Schooling. Different movie credit embody Emily, by which she performed creator Emily Brontë, and Kenneth Branagh’s Demise on the Nile. Upcoming, she’ll be seen enjoying the title position 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.
