Netflix is ​​delaying Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for the big screen in 2027

Audiences will have to wait months to see “Narnia: Nephew’s The Magician,” with the release date being moved from Thanksgiving to February 12, 2027.

In addition to relaunching “Narnia” on the big screen and being writer-director Greta Gerwig’s first movie since “Barbie,” “The Magician’s Nephew” is also seen as the next step in Netflix’s relationship with movie theaters — and it’s becoming the biggest part of the delay.

The company previously said “The Magician’s Nephew” will play on Imax screens for two weeks before its Christmas release. It may be an ambitious theatrical release by Netflix standards, but it pales in comparison to many other Hollywood blockbusters.

Now, Netflix says “The Magical Nephew” will begin special Imax previews on February 10, 2027, followed by a worldwide release in theaters on February 12. (In Netflix’s words, it will be a “worldwide release.”) The movie won’t begin airing until April 2.

The company’s announcement doesn’t tell you much about the theater location of “The Magician’s Nephew,” but. Imax released a statement noting that the delay will allow the film to have a “full theater window,” so major theater chains won’t complain.

In fact, AMC Theater soon he noted the success of his last “Stranger Things” screening. and said it has plans for a closer relationship with Netflix. At the same time, the streamer’s limited support for theatrical release and its resistance to special theatrical windows were. is said to be “disruptive” in negotiations with the producers of “Stranger Things,” who eventually signed an exclusive deal with Paramount.

With a cast that includes Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, “The Magician’s Nephew” adapts one of the later books in the fantasy series of CS Lewis – the director who describes Narnia.

In a Netflix announcement, Gerwig said she first read the novel as a child, when she “loved the improbable but brilliant idea of ​​a space lion singing the land of Narnia to life.”