The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV serial) Lucy has been lying. Peter and Susan kindly try to get Lucy to admit that it was "just a story", while Edmund makes spiteful comments like "found any new countries in the wardrobe?". A few days later, during a game of hide and seek, Lucy returns to the wardrobe and Edmund, the second youngest, and by far the most volatile of the four children, follows her. To Edmund's shock, he finds that Lucy was telling the truth about the country in the back of the wardrobe, but Lucy is nowhere to be seen when he enters Narnia. He carries on
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.