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Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew Unveils First Look at Digory and Polly’s Magical Adventure

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Greta Gerwig’s reimagining of C.S. Lewis’s world has been shrouded in secrecy for years, with fans left to piece together scraps of casting news and vague hints about tone. That secrecy finally broke this week when Empire published a full first-look feature, and the image making the rounds now shows something audiences hadn’t seen before: the story’s two young leads mid-journey into an unfamiliar realm.

The new photo depicts David McKenna as Digory Kirke and Beatrice Campbell as Polly Plummer stepping through a glowing, wreckage-strewn archway, suggesting a doorway between worlds central to the plot of “The Magician’s Nephew.” The scene’s crumbling stonework and eerie light evoke the ruined city of Charn, the dead world Digory and Polly stumble into after being tricked by Digory’s Uncle Andrew.

That image sits alongside a separate photo confirming Emma Mackey as Jadis, shown descending a staircase into a cavernous room with the two children trailing behind her, another scene apparently set within Charn’s crumbling ruins. Together, the two images mark the first time audiences have seen the film’s human cast in costume and in character, rather than through the previously released Aslan-focused cover art.

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Empire’s feature also confirmed one of the adaptation’s biggest structural changes: Gerwig has moved the story’s setting from the book’s original early 1900s to postwar 1950s London. That shift turns Digory and Polly into members of the generation that would go on to produce rock ‘n’ roll’s earliest stars, lining up with previous reports describing the film’s tone as a “rock opera” built around a contemporary, rock-influenced score from composer Mark Ronson.

That musical direction has been teased for months, with comparisons to bands like Pink Floyd and The Doors circulating well before this week’s reveal. Combined with Meryl Streep’s now-confirmed casting as Aslan and the character’s striking new design, the overall picture forming around the film looks far removed from previous Narnia adaptations.

Netflix is giving the film an unusually substantial theatrical rollout for a streaming original. IMAX previews are set to begin February 10, 2027, ahead of a wider worldwide theatrical release on February 12, with the film arriving on Netflix itself on April 2, 2027.

That extended theatrical window, reportedly pushed for by Gerwig herself, has already drawn some pushback from rival studios and exhibitors wary of Netflix’s usual reluctance to commit to traditional theatrical runs. Still, the scale of the release suggests Netflix is treating this adaptation as a major theatrical event rather than a quiet streaming drop.

Between the newly revealed Digory and Polly image, the Charn staircase photo, and the previously shared Aslan cover, Empire’s feature offers the most complete look yet at how differently Gerwig is approaching this material. With the film still five months from its IMAX debut, expect plenty more details, and probably more striking images, before “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” finally arrives.

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