When it comes to upcoming book adaptations, one of the highly-anticipated classics set to get a movie is quickly becoming Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie with Netflix. After the writer/director made one of the biggest movies in recent memory with Barbie, she’s been quietly readying her next film for production, and a new actor has reportedly been cast. Sadly, the news means Charli XCX probably won’t be involved (as previously rumored), but it makes for another great Barbie reunion. Let’s get into it.
Emma Mackey Has Been Cast As The White Witch
Back in March, it was reported that pop star and burgeoning actress in a number of upcoming A24 movies, Charli XCX, was being eyed to play the main antagonist of Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew from the C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series. However, now we have word from The Hollywood Reporter that Emma Mackey has instead been tapped for the role after being neck-and-neck with The Substance actress Margaret Qualley.
