The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Name: The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Director: Andrew Adamson
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Children’s, Drama
Released: 2006
Duration: 140 mins

Synopsis

C.S. Lewis’s classic adventure follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch’s powerful hold over Narnia in a spectacular, climactic battle that will free Narnia from Jadis’s icy spell forever.

Details

Year: 2006
Type of project: Features
Running time: 140 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Andrew Adamson
Producer: Philip Steuer
Executive Producer: Philip Steuer
Editor: Sim Evan-Jones, Jim May
Screenwriter: Andrew Adamson, Anne Peacock, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Director of Photography: Donald McAlpine
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Principal cast: Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Rupert Everett, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Dawn French

Genre

Literary Adaptation Children’s Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media

Sales Company

Buena Vista International

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