First Trailer For Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’ Teases Punk Rock Multiverse & Cosmic Creation Of Aslan

The first trailer for the Greta Gerwig-directed adaptation of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has arrived, plunging viewers into a modernized retelling of C.S. Lewis’ first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Beatrice Campbell’s Polly Plummer and David McKenna’s Digory Kirke kick off the clip wondering if Uncle Andrew Ketterly is mad after a sheet uncovers the beloved wooden wardrobe that marks the gateway to Narnia.

“Sometimes, one story is the beginning of all others,” a voice that sounds like Ciaran Hinds says as the carved cabinet structure stands tall up in the Ketterly attic.

“Mom always calls him a magician,” Digory tells Polly as Daneil Craig’s eccentric Uncle Andrew picks up the bottom of a green glass bottle.

Digory isn’t sure if he believes in magic, or if he’s ready to see what’s on the other side of a different wooden door, which opens into Uncle Andrew’s colorful laboratory.

Polly asks if magic is real after picking up a golden ring, and Andrew responds that he is, in fact, a magician.

“See for yourself,” he says as he hands more jewelry to Digory.

The children explore “infinity worlds,” but Digory’s touching a certain magical object before Polly can get to him to tell him not to summons Emma Mackey’s Jadis, the White Witch, who wears silver sparkly eyeshadow and whispers, “Come to me, my power.”

She jumps down in her metallic dress and brandishes her silver wand that she uses to cast spells as Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heavean” starts to play.

“Magic, it’s everywhere,” Carey Mulligan’s Mabel Kirke says.

A winged horse leaps into the air off of a cliff, carrying the pair of kids.

“Have you ever seen a world born?” Hinds’ voice returns at the end to ask as the iconic lion, Aslan, is formed out of some sort of cosmic dust to roar.