Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie film has smashed field workplace information, turning into one of the crucial talked about movies of the 12 months. So it’s comprehensible, then, that followers of the director are already wanting ahead to her subsequent challenge.
Barbie, which is customized from the favored Mattel toy franchise, was launched in cinemas final Friday (July 21). It premiered on the identical day as Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, with each movies having fun with the joint publicity generated by the ‘Barbenheimer’ chatter on-line.
Gerwig’s Barbie grossed over $200million (£156million) on the US field workplace in its first 5 days, shattering the file for the most important opening weekend ever for a movie directed by a lady. The Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-led satirical comedy has additionally surpassed $500million (£389million) on the world field workplace, fronting what has grow to be cinema’s busiest week since pre-pandemic occasions.
Now, with the monetary and demanding success of Barbie behind Gerwig, many shall be curious to see what the director does subsequent.
What’s Greta Gerwig’s subsequent film?
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Gerwig will write and direct two movies within the Chronicles Of Narnia universe for Netflix.
In an interview with the director in The New Yorker, it was confirmed that the challenge will sign the beginning of a bigger transfer from Netflix to create a number of films and TV reveals within the franchise.
The Chronicles of Narnia are a sequence of seven youngsters’s books by C.S. Lewis, and have beforehand been tailored quite a few occasions for stage and display, with the newest adaptation being the three Disney films: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and Voyage Of The Daybreak Treader.
Throughout an look on the Complete Movie Podcast, Gerwig stated she was “scared” and “excited” to start engaged on the variation.
“I haven’t even actually began wrapping my arms round it, however I’m correctly petrified of it, which appears like a very good place to begin,” she stated.
“I feel once I’m scared, it’s at all times a very good signal. Perhaps once I cease being scared, it’ll be like, ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t do this one.’ No, I’m scared of it. It’s extraordinary. And it’s thrilling.”
With the challenge nonetheless within the early levels of growth, little or no is understood concerning the form Gerwig’s adaptation will take, whereas casting particulars are additionally unlikely to be revealed for a while.
