Greta Gerwig Responds To Jo Koy’s Golden Globes ‘Barbie’ Jibe & Talks “Terror” Over Netflix ‘The Chronicles Of Narnia’ Adaptation

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Greta Gerwig may be coming off a record-breaking year with box office smash Barbie but the screenwriter and director has revealed she is feeling intimidated by her next project, the adaptation for Netflix of C.S.

Lewis children’s classic The Chronicles Of Narnia. “I’m slightly in the place of terror because I really do have such reverence for Narnia,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today program. “I loved Narnia so much as a child.

As an adult, C.S. Lewis is a thinker and a writer. I’m intimidated by doing this. It’s something that feels like a worthy thing to be intimidated by.” “As a non-British person, I feel a particular sense of wanting to do it correctly… it’s like when Americans do Shakespeare, there’s a slight feeling of reverence and as if maybe we should treat it with extra care.

It is not our countryman.” Gerwig was speaking just three days after Barbie won the Golden Globes’ inaugural Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award for its stellar $1.442 billion global gross in 2023. “It was very wonderful and emotional to be able to take to the stage with the groups that made it,” she said of the honor. “It felt very fitting… for all of us, the thing that we wanted most of all was to connect with people and to have people share an experience in the cinemas, in the movie theatres.