The filmmaker Greta Gerwig scores another hit on her resume, as it has now been confirmed that she will direct the new installment of The Chronicles of Narnia. This month, the director is about to release the live action of Barbie, which has generated great expectations among the public.
The newspaper The New Yorker has shared that Greta will be in charge of two films based on the successful novels by CS Lewis, under the Netflix label, who acquired the rights to the seven novels in 2018, and is now betting on the talented director to This new adaptation, confidence that has been gained after the excellent reception that the film Little Women had in 2019, making it clear that the filmmaker has a wide capacity to bring new perspectives to the literary classics.
The first goggle movie was released in 2005: The Chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, Its box office numbers took it to the top with a collection of 745 million dollars worldwide. However, the sequels did not enjoy the same acceptance, but their figures were acceptable in terms of collection. prince caspian (2008) generated approximately 419.6 million, while The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) got about 415.6 million.
Now the saga will be transferred to the world of streamingsince the purpose is to create a new audiovisual universe around The Chronicles of Narnia.
This makes clear the importance that digital platforms have acquired in the production of original content and their commitment to adaptations of popular literary works, which has given good results, as happened with the Pinocchio movie by Guillermo del Toro, released on Netflix. and in theaters.
The story of the wooden doll, despite being similar to the one made by Disney, Guillermo’s adaptation earned him an Oscar in 2023 for best animated film.
Thanks to the Netflix production, the director had at his disposal the best technology and the best animation craftsmen in Portland (United States), Manchester (United Kingdom) and Guadalajara, the filmmaker’s hometown.
“He stop motion it is permanently extinct because it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of effort and it’s all physical,” Del Toro said.
Amazon replicates the formula
The race to capture the largest number of subscribers on the different streaming platforms has made them look for new strategies to add content to their catalogs.
Amazon, like Netflix and other platforms, has also bought rights to great literary or video game successes to make the adaptation to series or movies.
In 2021, it was announced that Amazon was buying the licenses, in its entirety, from the Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) studio for a figure of 8.450 million dollars, where it won more than 4 thousand movie titles, among them: James Bond, Legally Blonde, Moonstruck, Poltergeist, Raging Bull and Robocop.
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