BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Sex Education) is set to play the White Witch in Netflix‘s Narnia movie from filmmaker Greta Gerwig, sources have confirmed to Deadline. She takes over a role to which Charli xcx had previously been linked. The reasons for the musician’s departure aren’t clear.
Netflix declined to comment. Mackey joins a cast that will also include Daniel Craig, as uncle of Digory Kirke, and Meryl Streep as lion Aslan the Great.
The film will reportedly adapt The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth novel in the Narnia series from author C.S. Lewis, which tells the origin story of Narnia. The story centers on Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, who discover the magical world of Narnia through Digory’s uncle’s magic. Production is expected to take place next year.
Netflix revealed in 2018 that it would develop new series and film projects based on Lewis’s beloved The
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