Director Greta Gerwig has confirmed that Meryl Streep will be voicing Aslan in her upcoming rendition of C.S. Lewis’ famed Chronicles of Narnia book The Magician’s Nephew, and that the lion character that is central to the story has been designed with David Bowie as inspiration. Gerwig, who directed both the Barbie movie and the 2019 rendition of Little Women, told Empire of the casting decision, “I wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness. Someone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight. I wanted someone who was older than 70, so there was a wisdom of experience, but who also had the capacity of fresh wonder, like a child. And also to be one of the greatest actors to ever do it. That list is not a long one.” thepostmillennial.com