Emma Mackey Is the White Witch for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Movie

An important casting for Greta Gerwig’s Chronicles of Narnia movie has been settled: Emma Mackey volition represent Jadis the White Witch, the series’ main antagonist.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, this marks a reunion betwixt manager and Death connected the Nile star aft Mackey antecedently appeared in Barbie. There’ve been rumors swirling astir for months that Mackey, popular prima Charli XCX, and The Substance‘s Margaret Qualley were each successful the moving for the role, famously played by Tilda Swinton successful the 2005 Disney movie and its 2 sequels, 2008’s Prince Caspian and 2010’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Gerwig’s Narnia movie is reportedly based connected The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth publication successful C.S. Lewis’ youth-fantasy series. Walden Media intended to proceed the earlier movie bid by adapting Nephew, but its declaration with Lewis’ property aboriginal expired. There’ve been numerous goes astatine trying to accommodate the remaining books, yet resulting successful Netflix picking up the rights truthful it could tackle that endeavor with caller movies and shows, and aboriginal got Gerwig connected board.

To date, the lone different casting that appears to beryllium successful the cards for the new Narnia movie is Meryl Streep arsenic Aslan, the talking lion who allies with the Penvensies to combat against the Witch. Other actors volition beryllium revealed implicit clip up of the film’s eventual release—first in theaters, past connected Netflix astatine a aboriginal date.

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