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Daniel Craig, best known for his iconic run as James Bond, has officially joined the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew for Netflix. I first saw Craig in Road to Perdition (2002) alongside Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. Since then, he’s taken on a wide range of memorable roles —...

If you’ve followed NarniaFans for any length of time, you know we love spotting Narnia references in unexpected places — and one of the latest comes from a rather surprising source: the Ghostbusters universe! It’s one of my all-time favorite franchises, and if I didn’t know any better, I would...

When I first watched the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I had already seen the animated version of the story. I was very young, and TV screens weren’t particularly clear. So when I saw the costumes for Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, and in particular their gloved hands, the look of...

On one of our Facebook posts about the upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, a reader’s comment stood out to us as something that helped us put things into perspective. We have our own thoughts as well, but we asked for, and received, permission to post his comment here. I’ve edited the...

Hey, everybody! Welcome back to Tumnus’ Bookshelf, where we review any and all books written by, about, and inspired by CS Lewis, The Land of Narnia, and The Inklings. For today’s review, we will be looking at the graphic novel The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of CS Lewis and JRR...

Barbara Kellerman, for so many, was the version of the White Witch that people would picture whenever they read the Chronicles of Narnia, after seeing the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. She would later return to Narnia for the BBC’s adaptation of The Silver Chair in the...

What if Narnia was an animated TV series? Brazilian artist L. Martin has begun imagining how The Chronicles of Narnia: The Animated Series might look if it was ever made by NETFLIX. This isn’t a real project, but this fan creation is really well done. Each day L. Martin will release a new...

We recently learned about a fascinating lunchtime lecture series happening in Derry, Northern Ireland, beginning this Thursday and continuing over the next few months. If you’re able to attend, we’d love to hear about your experience — especially since we don’t live in Ireland ourselves! To...

Irish actress Denise Gough is the latest confirmed cast to join Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew alongside Carey Mulligan as Digory’s mother. The production is now filming in London and will be scored by Mark Ronson who is the son-in-law of rumored cast member Meryl Streep. In the film Beatrice...

It sounds like this week or next, Greta Gerwig’s going to be filming some scenes for The Magician’s Nephew with IMAX cameras. This is pretty typical of IMAX-released films going way back, that some sequences in movies released on IMAX screens will have sequences that take up more of the screen...

This fall, the BBC’s television series adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia will be released on Blu-ray. With this release, they’re also including a feature-length documentary with all-new interviews with many members of the cast and crew. They’ve been revealing photos of cast members who...

Variety “exclusively” (lol) reported this morning that composer Mark Ronson has signed on to write the music for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. He previously worked with Greta Gerwig on Barbie. Interestingly, Mark Ronson is Meryl Streep’s son-in-law. He is married to Streep’s daughter, Grace...

This week’s BBC Chronicles of Narnia photo has been revealed: Samuel West (King Caspian), reunited with Sophie Wilcox (Lucy) and Jonathan Scott (Edmund) together again for the filming of the RETURN TO NARNIA documentary. Whether intentional or not, they shared the photo on the anniversary date...

We are now one month into the filming of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew and we’ve got a comprehensive report that puts together everything we know so far from the location filming. In a stunning cinematic montage we’ve created for you below you can visualize what the action packed sequence from...

Following last week’s photo of the Pevensie children back together, we now have a new photo that adds Prince Caspian to the mix. We’re very excited to see the cast together here. Pictured L-R: Jonathan Scott (Edmund), Sophie Wilcox (Lucy), Jean-Marc Perret (Caspian), Sophie Cook (Susan), &...

Originally published on September 7, 1953, it’s been 72 years since we first journeyed north of Narnia in The Silver Chair. The book has only been adapted for the screen once by the BBC in 1990, but that version is soon to be released on Blu-ray. The story picks up decades after the last...

Production is underway on Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, and our sources tell us that Carey Mulligan has officially begun filming her role as Digory’s mother Mabel Kirke. The BAFTA winner and three-time Oscar nominee steps into one of the most moving storylines in all of Narnia...

Originally published on September 6, 1954, it has been 71 years since the fifth installment of The Chronicles of Narnia was published. The Horse and His Boy whisks us away to the southern lands of Calormen, where a young boy named Shasta discovers his fate is intertwined with that of a talking...

Originally published on 4 September 1956, it’s been 69 years since the final installment of Narnia was published. The Last Battle follows the final days of Narnia wherein the land is in peril, and the great lion Aslan is nowhere to be found. The last king of Narnia was forced to call upon the “7...

It feels that music and Narnia go hand in hand. Considering the world itself echoes with the Song of Creation breathed into it by Aslan it’s an appropriate connection. Further considering the “deeper magic of Narnia” and “The other name” by which Aslan is known by in our world, for artists...