Mark Ronson to Score Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Adaptation for Netflix

Mark Ronson conjured cinematic magic for writer/director Greta Gerwig when he helped write and compose the soundtrack for Barbie. The dynamic duo now returns for another creative partnership, with Ronson tipped to score her lauded Chronicles of Narnia adaptation on Netflix, slated to open in IMAX on Thanksgiving Day 2026.

Hollywood Reporter confirms Ronson is working with Gerwig on her long-discussed adaptation of the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels. Gerwig is writing and directing the film for Netflix, reportedly a prequel to the series’ most famous story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (speculated to take place after Lewis’s own prequel in the series, The Magician’s Nephew).

Ronson is currently promoting his memoir, Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City, released on September 16, and chronicling his early rise through the iconic NYC club scene. A true jack-of-all trades, Ronson is working on Narnia while promoting his new book.

Barbie To Talking Lions: Ronson’s Unexpected Journey Into Fantasy Music

Ronson worked alongside Andrew Wyatt as executive music producer on Barbie, co-writing and co-producing five songs, along with the film’s score, for which he served as executive producer. This included writing “I’m Just Ken,” sung by Ryan Gosling, which busted through into massive zeitgeist success back when Barbenheimer was all the rage back in 2023.

“So we had this musical language that we’d established and that we could tell that Greta was into,” Ronson told ScreenRant shortly after the release of Barbie, detailing how his and Wyatt’s initial musical sketches for “I’m Just Ken” saw their role extended to cover the entire film (garnering the duo Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe nominations).

“And with ‘Ken’, it was a two-and-a-half-minute song that we wrote that she suddenly, in the first rough edit of the film, was now a 10-minute battle sequence… So I think as we did that, maybe Greta saw that we could maybe score the film and then the next thing she gave us was the opening credits.”

From Producing Music’s Biggest Stars To Scoring Cinema’s Biggest Films

Ronson is known as the producer extraordinaire behind landmark albums from Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars, who both contributed vocals respectively, to his two biggest hits, “Valerie” and “Uptown Funk.” He worked for years in the studio for music’s biggest acts before testing the waters in soundtracks with a contribution to A Star Is Born in 2018.

Co-writing “Shallow” for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (alongside Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando), the song eventually took home the Academy Award for Best Original Song, along with a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and more.

Speculation is already underway in terms of what Ronson has in store for Narnia, likely to be his most ambitious scoring job to date. Veteran producer Amy Pascal teased that Gerwig’s upcoming movie will be “a very new take on Naria. It’s all about rock and roll,” hinting at an adaptation that goes far beyond a traditional reboot.