New First Look Photos and Info About the Story That Will Unfold in NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW
Two first look photos and some new story info has been released about the upcoming film Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, from director Greta Gerwig.
Empire released the photos and some quick facts about the story, which is less familiar to many fans than the first book in the series, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, which has been told in film and TV many times.
Despite being the sixth in a seven-book series, The Magician's Nephew is a prequel that kicks off the timeline, and serves as an origin story for Narnia itself.
Its two heroes are a pair of plucky London kids: Polly (played by Beatrice Campbell in the film) and her neighbor Digory (David McKenna), who grows up to become the Professor who houses Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie some 40 years later in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
The outlet shared that in the story, Digory shares a house with his family, including his gravely ill mother (Carey Mulligan) and Uncle Andrew (Daniel Craig), an amateur magician who believes that he’s found the key to jumping between different worlds by using a set of two magic rings.
After a series of seemingly failed attempts involving some rather unfortunate guinea pigs, Andrew sends Polly and Digory off to do his mystical bidding with a set of rings each, unaware of just what (or where) he’s sending them into. This clueless sorcerer holds more power than he thinks.
Along their travels, Polly and Digory crash land into the Wood Between The Worlds (seen in the photos), an intricate, seemingly endless network of moss-cushioned pools that lead to, well, lots of different worlds – alongside their own homeworld, the kids also step into Charn, an eerie land that has faced total disaster.
Their journey through the worlds sees them encounters various friends and foes – towering witch Jadis (Emma Mackey), Uncle Andrew, as well as a London local called Frank (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith), and his loyal horse Strawberry, accidentally tagging along for the ride.
Cosmic lion Aslan (here voiced by Meryl Streep) was a major figure right from Lewis’ first Narnia novel – but The Magician’s Nephew gives him a proper magical introduction. And during the course of the story, we’ll witness him creating Narnia itself, through music.
As for the series’ villains, we’ll witness an origin of evil too, since Jadis is destined to become the White Witch. As you may know, the pair go on to clash violently in the future over the ruling of Narnia.
The film is set to be released in theatres on February 12, 2027, and on Netflix on April 2nd. Check out the photos and stay tuned for the trailer, which will hopefully be headed our way very soon.
