Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station—and now Greta Gerwig and Lady Bird. Greta has a kind of momentum that feels like it must help contain a million good ideas from flying out of the atmosphere.

Move over Barbie Land, Greta Gerwig is set to tackle another intensely popular world, Narnia. According to The New Yorker, Gerwig “has a deal with Netflix to write and direct at least two films ...