Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of fantasy films from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, based on the series of novels of the same name written by C.S. Lewis in the 1950s. The exceedingly popular first installment, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was released on December 9, 2005, while the second, Prince Caspian, is expected in mid-2008. This first pair of films is directed by Andrew Adamson and produced by Mark Johnson. The third, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will be directed by Michael Apted and is scheduled to be released in 2010. The books had previously been adapted into a TV miniseries. The great success of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings film trilogy led to interest in making movie versions of other classic fantasy.