{"id":78120,"date":"2026-01-07T05:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/narnia-dune-charli-xcx-the-2026-films-guardian-writers-are-most-excited-about-film\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:44:20","slug":"narnia-dune-charli-xcx-the-2026-films-guardian-writers-are-most-excited-about-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/narnia-dune-charli-xcx-the-2026-films-guardian-writers-are-most-excited-about-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Narnia! Dune! Charli xcx! The 2026 films Guardian writers are most excited about | Film"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Greta Gerwig.<\/span> Photograph: Tom Nicholson\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I doubt very much that 2026 will see anything in the Marty Supreme<\/a> league, but here\u2019s hoping one of the most bizarre side-steps of the decade turns out as interesting as it hopes. Short of Christopher Nolan<\/a> signing on to the new Mr Men movie, I didn\u2019t think much would throw the industry a loop as when Greta Gerwig<\/a> decided to follow up bubblegum blockbuster Barbie<\/a> with \u2026\u2026 a Narnia movie. More specifically, Gerwig \u2013 previously a skilled purveyor of achingly hip alt-indie comedy with Lady Bird, Frances Ha and Damsels in Distress \u2013 is restarting<\/a> the Narnia series, which had got through three of CS Lewis\u2019s series before Netflix took over the rights. To my mind, though, The Magician\u2019s Nephew, Lewis\u2019s origins\/prequel to the Wardrobe\/Caspian\/Dawn Treader narrative, is the most interesting of the entire Narnia canon, with its Edenic fall, \u201cdeplorable word\u201d and mystical apple. We know some of the cast: Emma Mackey is the future White Witch, Carey Mulligan<\/a> the terminally ill mother of one of the main kids, and Daniel Craig<\/a> might<\/a> be Aslan or mad inventor Uncle Andrew \u2013 or both, or neither. All eyes will be naturally be on Gerwig, but I have confidence she will pull it off in style. Andrew Pulver<\/em><\/p>\n

Dune: Messiah<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet.<\/span> Photograph: Warner Bros\/Everett\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After claiming that he was going to focus on other projects and maybe even abandon Dune after two laborious half-book adaptations, Denis Villeneuve<\/a>, inspired by how Part Two<\/a> was \u201creceived by cinephiles around the world\u201d (LOL), fast-tracked<\/a> Dune: Messiah. The final chapter in the epic sci-fi trilogy is now due this December (though given that it\u2019s slated to compete against the newest Avengers, that is likely subject to change.) And thank God for that \u2013 as the Guardian\u2019s resident Dunehead<\/a>, I must report that I have been counting down the days to Messiah since Zendaya\u2019s heartbroken Chani fled the scene of her boyfriend\u2019s genocidal freak metamorphosis via sandworm. It does not matter that Frank Herbert\u2019s far weirder sequel may actually be, as some charged of the first book, unadaptable; that the plot devolves into resurrected zombie warriors and worm gods and required Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> to shave his head. Villeneuve\u2019s vision for the first two films \u2013 gloriously strange and wonderfully vast, from the infrared Black Sun to the desert mouse \u2013 is so commanding, so thrilling to behold on the big screen, that I simply trust he will land the spaceship and give us one more round of heady yet extremely hype-y interplanetary escapism in 2026. Adrian Horton<\/em><\/p>\n

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