The trailer is out. Here is the full arc that gets you there.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe2005Source franchise

Andrew Adamson's adaptation defined the visual language of the Pevensie saga for an entire generation. Its Narnia is grand and slightly cold. That temperature is part of what a new director will be answering.

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Lady Bird2017Greta Gerwig, director

Her directorial debut. A film about the gap between who someone is and who they want to be, told with no sentimentality and complete empathy. The voice established here runs through everything that followed.

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Little Women2019Greta Gerwig, director

Gerwig took Louisa May Alcott's novel apart and rebuilt it as something formally adventurous, reordering the timeline to argue for emotional stakes over sequence. A proof-of-concept for what a Gerwig adaptation of beloved source material looks like.

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Barbie2023Greta Gerwig, director

The highest-grossing film directed by a woman. What reads as a comedy of ideas is also a study in iconographic architecture: Gerwig built a world that looks like a toy and thinks like a philosopher. The scale arrived without compromising the precision.

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Narnia: The Magician's Nephew2027Greta Gerwig, director

The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles by publication order, now adapted by the filmmaker who spent a decade proving she can carry a myth. Meryl Streep voices Aslan. The trailer suggests a film interested in why creation stories feel necessary.