Honoree Greta Gerwig and Lisa Bunnell, President, Distribution, Focus Features and President, Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation speak onstage during the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation's Pioneer Dinner Honoring Greta Gerwig at The Beverly Hilton on September 25, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
“A showperson is the only person I’ve ever wanted to be,” she said, as she was named Pioneer of the Year at the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation gala in Beverly Hills. Improbably based on the popular doll franchise, but given unusual creative license, the film’s success came at a crucial time for an increasingly risk-averse industry reeling from the pandemic, strikes and swingeing job cuts.
Gerwig is reportedly set to write and direct two Netflix film adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia.”