Netflix Appeals to Matthew Aldrich of Coco for the Management of its New Tool "The Cinematic Universe of Narnia"

While Netflix has many strengths in its struggle for total domination of the pop culture landscape – comedies, movies, Keanu -, it has been missing for years, original offers, a revolutionary big-budget application to attract (Or to put it more simply, more words from Jeff Bezos: he does not have Game of thrones.) Last fall, he made progress in this direction by announcing his intention to transform the beloved C.S. Lewis Narnia The books – Tolkien and Martin having already been seduced by competitors more quick to earn money – fit into his own very cold and very Christian cinematographic universe of TV and radio shows. movies. Now, he has found someone to lead this constellation of healthy epics, someone who is already comfortable enough to send adventurous kids into long and arduous quests in realms from another world, metaphor or not to totally bite it: coconut co-author Matthew Aldrich.

It's by THR, who reports that Aldrich will serve as a "creative architect" for the whole of the very likely expensive Netflix Narnia project, inherited from 20th Century Fox, which took over after Disney got off the ground. be bored of all those lions and wardrobes and Tildas Swinton in the mid-2000s. Unable to withstand the lure of this particular piece of Turkish Delight, the streaming service has thrown together all kind of a mishmash from the various Lewis books, that Aldrich will now have to unravel in a series of movies and programs retracing the lives of The Pevensie Kids and their good friends, Sexy Goatlegs and Lion Jesus. Which seems a little more ambitious than the previous Aldrich passage within the team writing a very good Pixar movie, but still: this is not not like he had not shown a serious enough skill with characters that do not stop coming back from the dead, right?