Fans react to Greta Gerwig making Narnia films for Netflix: “Dreams do come true”

The runaway box office success of “Barbie” has set a new record that finds director Greta Gerwig making Hollywood history.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Three cheers for Director Barbie. Greta Gerwig cemented box office history as her cotton candy-colored blockbuster “Barbie” scored a massive $155 million in its opening weekend, marking the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman. “Captain Marvel,” which was co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, previously held the title with $153 million in 2019. “Wonder Woman,” from filmmaker Patty Jenkins, stood as the record-holder for a movie solely directed by a woman with $103 million in 2017. “Barbie” has notched several other box office records, including the biggest opening weekend of the year — besting “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($146 million).

Barbie featuing an elderly woman on a bench to remain in the final cut of the film.While Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) are in ‘the real world’, they pass by an elderly woman on a bench, and Barbie stops to tell the woman she is beautiful. Gerwig faced pressure to cut the scene because it didn’t add to the plot.Gerwig stood her ground, however, maintaining that the scene was ‘the heart of the movie’. “I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone.

Greta Gerwig may have just helmed one of summer’s biggest blockbusters with the Barbie movie  — but she still has nerves about jumping into her next project.  

Barbie is in on the joke in more ways than one.

“Barbie” has been blessed.Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated pink-filled comedy “Barbie” has finally driven its magenta-colored convertible into theaters.The movie is chock-full of religious motifs and allusions — thanks to the filmmaker’s past experiences at St. Francis High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento, California.“In the movie, like, when it starts, she’s in a world where there’s no aging or death or pain or shame or self-consciousness, and then she suddenly becomes self-conscious — that’s a really old story,” Gerwig recently told the Associated Press about the parallels between “Barbie” and the Bible.

“Barbie” only just hit theaters today, but Greta Gerwig already knows what’s next on her slate: a new film series based on “The Chronicles Of Narnia.” And EW reports that the filmmaker is “terrified” of the prospect, but in her mind, that’s a good thing. READ MORE: ‘Barbie’ Review: An Existential & Exhilarating Comedy Cementing Greta Gerwig’s Status As A Master Storyteller “I haven’t even really started wrapping my arms around it, but I’m properly scared of it, which feels like a good place to start,” Gerwig said on the Total Film podcast.

Greta Gerwig has for the first time addressed her plans to write and direct multiple films based on The Chronicles of Narnia books from C.S. Lewis, admitting that the prospect is fairly unnerving.

Greta Gerwig is sharing her nerves as she prepares to start working on the Chronicles of Narnia reboot movie series.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Although rumors had circulated online for several months, it wasn’t until a recent New Yorker profile that confirmation arrived regarding Greta Gerwig tackling “The Chronicles of Narnia” film adaptations for Netflix. Gerwig is reportedly attached to direct two “Narnia” movies. Gerwig confirmed on the Total Film podcast that she’s heading to Narnia after “Barbie.” “I haven’t even really started wrapping my arms around it, but I’m properly scared of it, which feels like a good place to start,” Gerwig told the Total Film podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) about entering Narnia. “I think when I’m scared, it’s always a good sign. Maybe when I stop being scared, it’ll be like, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t do that one.’ No, I’m terrified of it. It’s extraordinary. And it’s exciting.”

the New York Times. “Just come do the ‘Barbie’ movie, I’ll buy you a present every day.”Gosling revealed that the appealing offer “started as a joke in a text.”“There was suddenly this pink present from Barbie to Ken, every day, for a very long shoot. It felt unsustainable,” the “La La Land” actor told the outlet.

Greta Gerwig is opening up about her experience with Barbie and beyond.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Indonesian genre specialist Timo Tjahjanto has begun production on “The Shadow Strays,” a new action film project. Tjahjanto is one half of a writing-directing pair with Kimo Stamboel that are colloquially known as the Mo Brothers and previously delivered “Headshot.” However, it was as a solo director that Tjahjanto (“May the Devil Take You Too,” “The Night Comes for Us”) was signed to a multi-film deal with Netflix in 2022. He delivered his first picture under that arrangement later that year. “The Big 4” debuted in Netflix’s non-English language top ten.

Not even Ken can please everyone.

America Ferrara is all in on “Barbie”.

The trailer for Netflix’s new limited series “Painkiller” has arrived.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Saoirse Ronan revealed last September to People magazine that she tried and failed to film a cameo in the upcoming “Barbie” movie, which is directed by her “Lady Bird” and “Little Women” filmmaker Greta Gerwig. It turns out Gerwig eyed even more “Barbie” cameos, including one that would’ve reunited her and Ronan with Timothée Chalamet. The Oscar nominee also appeared in “Lady Bird” and “Little Women.” “Well, it was always going to have to be like a sort of smaller thing because she was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for,” Gerwig said of having to scrap Ronan’s cameo. “And of course, it’s brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo. I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn’t do it, and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom.”

Folks, we are less than two weeks away from what social media has dubbed, “Barbenheimer.” That’s when, on July 21, both Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” arrive in theaters. While we don’t know the outcome of such a cataclysmic box office event, people are excited by the idea of going to the cinema to see the funloving story of a toy that changed the world, as well as Gerwig’s “Barbie.” (I kid, I kid.)  READ MORE: Hollywood Predicts Potential $100 Million Opening Weekend For ‘Barbie,’ $50 Million For ‘Oppenheimer’ And to help raise the hype for Barbenhemier even more, we have the first social media reactions to “Barbie” that are, as you might expect from social media reactions, hyperbolic, but also very complimentary.

The Barbie film is a reality but to make Greta Gerwig’s vision come to life, everyone had to be on board. During the red carpet premiere in LA, star Margot Robbie gave a shoutout to the director saying most signed up because of Gerwig herself.

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