Netflix taps Coco's Matthew Aldrich to run its new "Narnia cinematic universe" thing
While Netflix has a number of assets in its ongoing fight for total domination over the pop culture landscape—comedy, films, Keanu—it still, years into its pursuit of original offerings, lacks a truly big-budget killer app to draw the people in. (Or to put it in simpler, more Jeff Bezos terms: It doesn’t have a Game Of Thrones.) It made strides in that direction last fall, though, when it announced its intentions to turn C.S. Lewis’ beloved Narnia books—Tolkien and Martin having already been snapped up by more cash-ready competitors—into its own sort of vaguely Christian, very cold cinematic universe of TV shows and films. Now it’s found someone to helm this constellation of wholesome epics, someone who’s already pretty comfortable sending child adventurers on long, arduous quests into otherworldly realms that may or may not be a metaphor for totally biting it: Coco co-writer Matthew Aldrich.