Peter berates Edmund for lying and forces him to apologize to Lucy. While fleeing the housekeeper after accidentally breaking a window, the four siblings retreat to the wardrobe and enter Narnia. When Peter and Susan bring the issue to Professor Kirke, he suggests Lucy is telling the truth. Lucy informs Peter and Susan, but Edmund lies out of spite. After she departs, Edmund and Lucy reunite. Edmund tells her about his siblings and Tumnus, and the Witch offers him Turkish delight and kingship if he brings his siblings to her castle.
Edmund meets the White Witch, who claims to be queen of Narnia. One night, Lucy successfully returns through the wardrobe, but Edmund follows her. However, Tumnus instead sends her home, where Lucy finds hardly any time had passed, and her siblings disbelieve her story due to the normal state of the wardrobe. Tumnus puts Lucy to sleep by playing a flute lullaby, and when Lucy wakes up, he sadly explains that the White Witch cursed Narnia to eternally experience winter and never Christmas, and any humans encountered are to be brought to her. Tumnus, who invites her to his home and tells her that she is in Narnia. Lucy finds a lamppost and encounters a faun named Mr. The three films have grossed a total of over $1.5 billion worldwide.ĭuring World War II, the Pevensie children ( Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy) are evacuated from London to the country home of Professor Kirke.ĭuring a game of hide-and-seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and hides inside, only to find that she has entered a magical winter world. Lewis's series, and was followed by Prince Caspian in 2008 and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 2010.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first of a series of adaptations of C. It was the best-selling DVD in North America in 2006 taking in $332.7 million that year. An extended edition was released on December 12, 2006, and was only made available on DVD until January 31, 2007, when it was discontinued. It won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Makeup and various other awards. The film was released on December 9, 2005, in both Europe and North America to positive reviews and was highly successful at the box office, grossing more than $745 million worldwide, making it 2005's third-most-successful film.
There they ally with the lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson) against the forces of Jadis, the White Witch ( Tilda Swinton). William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley play Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, four British children evacuated during the Blitz to the countryside, who find a wardrobe that leads to the fantasy world of Narnia. It was co-produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 fantasy film co-written and directed by Andrew Adamson, based on the 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C.