Film director Greta Gerwig says she is treading lightly when it comes to taking on her latest project – two new films from “The Chronicles of Narnia” series for Netflix.
Although the 40-year-old is raking in awards for last summer’s blockbuster Barbie film and has received six Academy Award nominations — including Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women—she is taking extra care when writing the screenplay for the beloved series.
“I’m slightly in the place of terror because I really do have such reverence for Narnia,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today program. “I loved Narnia so much as a child. As an adult, C.S. Lewis is a thinker and a writer. I’m intimidated by doing this. It’s something that feels like a worthy thing to be intimidated by.”
“As a non-British person, I feel a particular sense of wanting to do it correctly,” she continued. “It’s like when Americans do Shakespeare, there’s a slight feeling of reverence and as if maybe we should treat it with extra care. It is not our countryman.”
Fans have been waiting more than a decade to see if more of the books would finally be turned into
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