Daniel Craig hands out the rings in Greta Gerwig's Narnia

Netflix's trailer for The Magician's Nephew runs from a London attic to the night Narnia is born, with a theaters-only date of February 12.

Channel: Netflix Story of October 14, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 6,522,455 views a day, 82 times a normal first day on this channel (79,740).

NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix

"Magic is real. I am a magician," says Uncle Andrew. Daniel Craig delivers the line among the vials and brass instruments of a hidden attic laboratory, holding out a ring to his nephew. With that, Greta Gerwig's first look at The Magician's Nephew stops being a London children's story and becomes something far bigger.

Netflix's official trailer passed nearly four million views in its first ten hours, well beyond what the channel's videos of this length usually draw in a whole day. The comments moved faster still: close to seven thousand, where a typical first day brings a few dozen.

C. S. Lewis published the book in 1955 as a look back at where Narnia came from, and the trailer leans into that. It opens on a wooden wardrobe in an attic while a narrator says, "Sometimes, one story is the beginning of all the others." Later title cards promise the Chronicles "from the very beginning." The boy at the center, Digory Kirke, is the same character who, decades later and as an old professor, takes in the Pevensie children.

The story starts small. Digory and Polly talk across the London rooftops ("Is Mr Ketterley really mad?" Polly asks) before crawling through the attic into his uncle's workshop. One touch of a ring sends them into a sprawling wood, then to a frozen royal hall where Digory strikes a chime and wakes Jadis. She follows them through other worlds and back into London. The trailer closes with a flight on the winged horse Fledge and Aslan roaring under the stars, as the narrator asks, "Have you ever seen a world born?"

That final glimpse of the lion is what many commenters bring up first, along with the hint of the book's famous scene in which Aslan sings Narnia into being. Others answer the swirling cosmic colors with Marvel-style title jokes, from Love and Thunder to the Guardians of the Galaxy. One sharp-eyed viewer spotted wing-like shapes behind Strawberry, the cab horse who becomes Fledge, at 0:26.

On the same day, Netflix also posted the trailer for Minimum Wage, a sitcom about teenagers running a pizzeria, adapted from popular social media shorts. It also started around ten times faster than the channel's usual pace, a modest workplace comedy beside a creation myth.

The video's tags also list Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and Ciarán Hinds. The trailer gives none of them a scene, and it closes on an unusual promise for a streaming service: only in theaters.

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The numbers

The trailer's start stands out even for one of the biggest channels in entertainment, and its comment section is busier still.

the video's first day

usual first day here

79,740

this video

6,522,455

subscribers

33,700,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

11,686,311,906

views per day

5,952,357

typical day: 5,234,801

the video

views

3,991,881

likes

43,905

comments

6,882

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Netflix

33,700,000

Gordon Ramsay

22,000,000

BBC

15,700,000

HISTORY

15,500,000

Dropout

15,300,000

Comedy Central

12,600,000

As of October 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.