Overview
- Empire’s world‑exclusive first look, published Thursday, confirmed Meryl Streep will voice Aslan and showed concept art with heterochromic eyes and a red stripe nodding to David Bowie.
- Gerwig told Empire she reworked the story into a rock‑opera‑inflected vision and moved the period setting to postwar 1950s Britain to tie the film’s music‑based creation myth to British rock influences.
- The cast includes child leads David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell plus Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds and Daniel Craig, and Gerwig reunited collaborators Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for the score.
- Netflix set IMAX previews for February 10, 2027, a wide theatrical release on February 12, 2027, and a Netflix streaming date of April 2, 2027, giving the film an unusually long cinema window for the streamer.
- Reaction has split online over the female voice casting and visual departures from earlier films, a debate that could shape public appetite for Gerwig’s reboot and influence Netflix’s playbook for future theatrical releases.