Greta Gerwig’s Narnia is officially set for a theatrical release in IMAX theaters on November 26, 2026, for an exclusive engagement before arriving on Netflix exactly one month later, on December 25. The project will open globally in IMAX theaters beginning Thanksgiving Day 2026.The film will be shown for a two-week period in approximately 90 countries. It will play on more than 1,000 IMAX screens before being released on Netflix for digital streaming globally, according to Deadline.Narnia: Gerwig’s vision and creative momentumThe movie marks Greta Gerwig’s next major undertaking following a series of successful films from Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019) to Barbie (2023). This will be the first adaptation since the trilogy released between 2005 and 2010. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos expressed confidence in Gerwig’s interpretation, telling Time, in an article dated February 21, 2024. Speaking about her take on the movie, Sarandos said: “It won’t be counter to how the audience may have imagined those worlds but it will be bigger and bolder than they thought.”Gerwig also spoke openly about her fascination with C.S. Lewis's worldbuilding and the imaginative logic of the franchise. Noting the surreal yet intuitive mix of elements in the books, the Barbie director told Time:“It’s connected to the folklore and fairy stories of England, but it’s a combination of different traditions.”She added: “As a child, you accept the whole thing—that you’re in this land of Narnia, there’s fauns, and then Father Christmas shows up. It doesn’t even occur to you that it’s not schematic. I’m interested in embracing the paradox of the worlds that Lewis created, because that’s what’s so compelling about them.”Background on the projectThe Chronicles of Narnia is a set of seven fantasy books written by C.S. Lewis, released from 1950 to 1956. Taking place in the fictional realm of Narnia, the stories follow children from the human world who are pulled into a place full of talking animals, legendary beasts, and magical happenings.Following the lion Aslan, they step into big events in the fantasy world, from how it began in The Magician’s Nephew to its end in The Last Battle. Lewis built the fantasy story world from old myths, medieval tales, kid memories, and also Christian ideas.In 2018, Netflix got the rights to The Chronicles of Narnia, aiming to turn C.S. Lewis’s books into movies and shows. Gerwig signed to direct the project in 2020.Also read: Why is Netflix’s new film Our Times being compared to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie? Details explored.