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Fantasy shows are among the main blockbuster attractions on platforms; Netflix’s competitors understood this better than most with, respectively, Game of Thrones and The Lord Of The Rings. But premium shows on a global scale are hard to come by, and Netflix has hedged its bets with Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie and the final season of The Witcher. Here is everything you need to know about the major fantasy projects coming to the platforms next year.
This is one of several 2026 & beyond previews we’ve already released and are still working on. You can find our full 2026 schedule here and more on our Coming Soon hub page.
New Fantasy Movies Coming to Netflix In 2026 & Beyond
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
Netflix Release Date: December 25th, 2026 – Global IMAX release on Thanksgiving
As production in London is scheduled to wrap in the coming weeks, very little has been shown of the highly anticipated new adaptation of the cult series by C.S. Lewis, which also doubles as the (possibly even more) anticipated follow-up to Barbie by Greta Gerwig. The movie stars David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell, respectively, as Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer. The period piece is set in 1955, which is a drastic transposition for the story of The Magician’s Nephew; we have mentioned the fandom’s divisive reactions in our Narnia preview story. Even if the movie has been acknowledged by Ted Sarandos in earnings calls, no teaser poster or promotional material of any kind has been released so far. We might have a sneak peek of sorts during the Next On Netflix event in early January, even though nothing has been confirmed.
Just Picture It
This rom-com starring Millie Bobby Brown and Gabriel LaBelle has been greenlit last summer, and the pitch features some fantasy elements. Two strangers have their phone glitching out and showing pictures and videos of them 10 years in the future, being married with kids. Additional casting has been announced in September, including Idina Menzel (Frozen) and Margo Martindale (The Americans). The movie officially entered production on September 25th, as announced in a post on Netflix’s Instagram profile. It remains to be seen whether it can finalize post-production to be out late next year.
We should also note that Millie Bobby Brown is also attached to a TV series called Prism, which has fantasy/horror elements. The synopsis of that reads, “Cassie, a woman who can communicate with apparitions, must uncover the cause of a mysterious phenomenon causing ghosts to appear worldwide before it’s too late.”
Stars of “Just Picture It” Millie Bobby Brown and Gabriel LaBelle. Cr: Anthony Keyvan/Netflix.
Steps
STEPS – (Pictured) Lilith (voice by Ali Wong). ©2025 Netflix, Inc.
Produced by Netflix’s own animation studio, Steps has had a long road to production, being shepherded by Amy Poehler through her production company Paper Kite. The movie only recently was announced for a 2026 release, with John Ripa (Raya & The Last Dragon) co-directing with newcomer Alyce Tzue. Voiced by Ali Wong and Stephanie Hsu, the animated movie will try to give a fresh perspective of the evil stepsisters in the Cinderella story. Announced in early 2021, the movie was set to be written by Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, most known as comedy/musical duo Garfunkel & Oates, but they both seem to have departed the project. You can find our full preview here, with the logline below.
Think you know Cinderella’s ‘evil’ stepsisters? Think again! When misunderstood Lilith (Ali Wong) is blamed for hijacking the Royal Ball with a stolen magic wand, she accidentally turns her sister Margot (Stephanie Hsu) into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a prince-obsessed mean girl. Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella (and a surprisingly dreamy troll) to save the kingdom, repair the fractured fairytale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after.
Dragon’s Lair
This live-action adaptation of Dragon’s Lair has been long in the works at Netflix, and we wouldn’t have included it here had it not gotten a major update over the Summer with James Bobin reportedly in talks to direct the film with Ryan Reynolds still producing.
Dragon’s Lair debuted in 1983 as a flashy leap forward for arcade games, blending Don Bluth’s theatrical animation with LaserDisc technology to create a near-cartoon experience you could play. It felt less like a typical cabinet and more like stepping into an interactive animated film, a novelty that stopped players in their tracks. While its ambitious tech proved short-lived, Dragon’s Lair remains an iconic time capsule, fondly remembered for daring to imagine arcades as something bigger, bolder, and more cinematic.
New and Returning Fantasy Series coming to Netflix in 2026
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Season 2)
The live-action reimagining of the Nickelodeon animated series has wrapped production on its third and final season earlier this month, and also teased its upcoming sophomore season with a minute-long teaser featuring more of the Earth Kingdom. The season had announced additional casting last May, with notable additions being Dichen Lachman (Severance), as Yangchen, Dolly de Leon as Lo and Li, Rekha Sharma (Yellowjackets) as Amita, and Chin Han as Long Feng. Our full preview, with additional details and promotional photos, is here.
The Witcher (Season 5)
Despite a precipitous drop in viewership for Season 4 this fall, the final season has already wrapped and in post-production for an expected 2026 premiere. It will see Liam Hemsworth returning alongside Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra, as well as many, many cast additions that we have recapped here. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich is expected to shepherd the conclusion of the adaptation of the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, even though it is an open question as to how much it will be faithful to the ending of the books. You can read our full final season preview, to be updated throughout 2026, for more.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Season 2)
One Hundred Years of Solitude Teaser Poster for Season 2. Cr: Netflix.
Announced in two seasons, the last part of the epic Gabriel García Márquez book adaptation is going through a lengthy post-production, but the premiere is already set for August 2026. The remaining eight episodes will see the return of Claudio Cataño as Aureliano Buendía, and directors Laura Mora and Carlos Moreno bringing larger-than-life visuals to make the utopian city of Macondo come to life once again.
Untitled Newfoundland project
Picture Credit: BackGrid
The still untitled miniseries, which was in production in Canada last fall, is now believed to be in post-production for a 2026 premiere. It features a mysterious sea creature terrorizing a local community, with Josh Hartnett playing a hardened fisherman deciding to fight to protect his family and his vanishing way of life. Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror) is producing the project, which comes from creator and showrunner Jesse McKeown. Alongside Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis (Halt & Catch Fire, the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror) and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) are costars.
Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms
This one is a little bit harder to track down, as no official progress has been made since it was picked up by Netflix for development last February. Produced by Hasbro Entertainment, it is also shepherded by heavyweight Shawn Levy and showrunner Drew Crevello, who has been attached to a previous incarnation for Paramount+. It is reported to be separate from the Honor Among Thieves movie, which was released by Paramount. In a video interview to promote Stranger Things with Collider last month, Levy assured the project was still in active development at Netflix, though he cautioned that “the reason why it’s a hard process is you are not adapting story IP, but a world and a lexicon. But the story has to be built from scratch within that world.” A series order has not yet been formalized, though it may be announced in the new year.
Solo Leveling
From the successful webtoon saga, launched in 2016, to the even more massively popular anime adaptation which swept the Crunchyroll Awards, the Solo Leveling franchise is not going anywhere. And Netflix has ordered a live-action adaptation last summer, produced in partnership with editor Kakao Entertainment and with Byeon Woo-seok as the lead demon hunter, Sung Jin-woo. Additional casting has not been officially confirmed, but reports show Han So Hee has also been cast in the project. The project should go into production in 2026, but it is not expected to hit screens until 2027. We have summarized the impact of the franchise and the possible mistake in trying to translate it into live-action here, alongside with a Solo Leveling preview.
Pagans
This project has a straight-to-series order and will be produced in-house; Netflix scooped it up last fall after a bidding war involving multiple broadcasters. It comes from an unlikely source: writer and proposed showrunner Joshua Zetumer, who produced acclaimed miniseries Say Nothing for FX, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The project’s loglines, which add supernatural elements to a strained father-daughter relationship, read as follows:
Pagans follows a man who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son is typical, his daughter, Alice, is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister. Equal parts emotional, horrifying and humorous, Pagans uses genre to unearth all the dark thoughts that parents have, the kind of thoughts mom and dad are never supposed to talk about…
Fantasy Animated Shows Coming to Netflix in 2026 and Beyond
Magic: The Gathering
Magic The Gathering First Look Image Geeked Week
Animated shows usually get a longer production cycle than most of the other Netflix programming, and it seems that, after years of development, the Magic: The Gathering animated series is underway for a likely 2026 premiere. Ordered in September of 2024, Budapest animation studio DIGIC has been tapped to animate the premium CGI animated project, with Terry Matalas having revealed last May, on The Sackhoff Show podcast, that the writing had been completed – Matalas being in-demand, he is also working on Marvel Television’s VisionQuest, also slated for a 2026 premiere. The show, set to focus on the characters of Nahiri and Ajani, the project, deemed to be an adult animation program, is set to be directed by Patrick Osborne and Simon Rogers as art director.
Ghostbusters Animated Series
Formally ordered in August of 2024 after a couple years in development, the Ghostbusters animated show is on track for a 2026 premiere. With Ben Hibon as showrunner (Star Trek: Prodigy) and Flying Bark as the animation house, a few visuals and concept art were unveiled in Annecy last June, that were described as incredibly stylized, with a stated goal to “surprise the audience” and be forward-thinking with the animation choices. The series is produced by Elliott Kalan alongside the heads of Ghost Corps. which handles the franchise, Amie Karp, Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan. Alongside that project, an animated Ghostbusters movie, reported as a completely different take on the universe, remains in active development.
Devil May Cry (Season 2)
This month, a premiere date for the new season of the hit anime show has been confirmed for May 12, 2026. Bringing back showrunner Adi Shankar and demon hunter Dante (voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch), the second season has been described by Shankar as “a very different show” as Dante levels up. The Capcom video game adaptation is also reported to feature gunsmith Nell Goldstein. You can find our updated preview on the sophomore season here.
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85
As the main show has ended, the Duffer Brothers have confirmed the animated spin-off, set between seasons 2 and 3 of the show, will premiere in 2026 – we expect it somewhere in the spring. Showrunner Eric Robles and animation studio Flying Bark (also handling duties for Ghostbusters) have confirmed the show is set during the Winter of ’85 and evocative of a Saturday morning cartoon. The original cast will not reprise their roles for the animated spin-off, but new creatures are confirmed to debut on the show, as well as an original character, Nicki Baxter. You can learn more through our recap of the June 2025 Annecy presentation and our preview here.
Clash of Clans
Another adaptation from a mobile game hit, Clash of Clans, is reported to have an unexpected twist: it will be more akin to a workplace comedy. The show is officially described as an adventure featuring “a determined but in-over-his-head Barbarian who must rally a band of misfits to defend their village and navigate the comically absurd politics of war.” The project’s showrunner, Fletcher Moules, has already worked extensively on Netflix projects Entergalactic and Agent Elvis, and will be joined by comedy veteran Ron Weiner. The show is currently in production in Vancouver through animation house ICON Creative Studio. You can find our preview here.
Grim
Last but not least, a project currently announced in development last month with some heavyweights: Wednesday executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar, and Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who was supervising director on Love, Death + Robots. Adapted from the BOOM! comic, the fantasy project also blends in YA themes:
A character-driven supernatural saga, Grim follows Jessica Harrow, a newly recruited Reaper tasked with ferrying souls to the afterlife. Unlike her fellow Reapers, Jessica has no memory of her death or life before. Her search for answers pulls her deeper into the unseen architecture of the afterlife, revealing hidden forces, cosmic secrets, and her shocking personal connection to Death itself.
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