Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie film has smashed field workplace information, turning into some of the talked about movies of the yr. So it’s comprehensible, then, that followers of the director are already trying ahead to her subsequent venture.
Barbie, which is tailored 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 document 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 turn into cinema’s busiest week since pre-pandemic instances.
Now, with the monetary and significant success of Barbie behind Gerwig, many will likely 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 venture 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 instances for stage and display, with the latest adaptation being the three Disney motion pictures: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and Voyage Of The Daybreak Treader.
Throughout an look on the Whole 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 afraid of it, which appears like a very good place to begin,” she stated.
“I feel once I’m scared, it’s all the time a very good signal. Possibly once I cease being scared, it’ll be like, ‘Possibly I shouldn’t try this one.’ No, I’m fearful of it. It’s extraordinary. And it’s thrilling.”
With the venture nonetheless within the early phases of improvement, little or no is thought in regards to the form Gerwig’s adaptation will take, whereas casting particulars are additionally unlikely to be revealed for a while.