@courtenay so is she making the movie she herself wants to watch?  What happened to making movies for the audience? 🙁

@coracle Well, so far we don't know what she's doing, really. The "setting it in the era when she herself was reading it at 8 years old" idea is just a guess that at least two of us here (me and Impending Doom) have made — in my case, it came about because keeping the official canonical gap between MN and LWW would mean setting LWW in the mid-1990s, which struck me as the latest era you could set the story in without modern communications technology adding complications that I'd certainly rather not see added.

Then it occurred to me that Gerwig had made that comment about her creative process involving a dialogue with her 8-year-old self, and I looked up her date of birth, and she turned 8 on 4th August 1991. That's the early rather than mid-1990s, but close enough. So that might be something that's influencing her decision to change the time period of the Narnia books. I doubt it's the only factor, if it is indeed a factor at all. We can still only guess at this stage.