Greta Gerwig, co-writer and director of Barbie, will direct the film. “I am interested in embracing the paradox of the worlds that Lewis created”, she says.

The Spanish project ‘Origin: The musical of Narnia’ aims to share “in a direct and clear way the Christian message behind” the well-known story created by C.S. Lewis.

For the first time the rights to the seven books are held by the same company. “Religious symbolism plays a major role in the Chronicles of Narnia”, said Professor Alister McGrath.