The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe make a faithful adaptation of the novel set in Britain. ""Harry Potter" came along, and all those cultural or geographical lines were broken," Mark Johnson explained. "When "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" was being developed at Paramount, the imperative was to set it in the U.S., and it just doesn't hold. [...] It's not the book." Guillermo del Toro turned down the offer to direct due to his commitment on "Pan's Labyrinth". Following an Academy Award win for "Shrek", director Andrew Adamson began adapting the source material with a 20-page treatment based on his memories of the book.
Battles in the Chronicles of Narnia Battles in the Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis' fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" includes several battles set in Narnia, Archenland, and other places in the Narnian World. These are given below in an in-universe, fictional chronology while listing them in order of appearance. The First Battle of Beruna is a fictional battle in "The Chronicles of Narnia" where it was a major battle in the Winter Revolution. It is fought in Narnia at the edges of the Great River near the Fords of Beruna, in the year 1000 according to Lewis' Narnian timeline. It is the climactic battle