In 2005 the first movie in The Chronicles Of Narnia was finally released and it was called The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. The Chronicles Of Narnia is an extremely popular series of seven books written by CS Lewis and there was great anticipation for many years awaiting the arrival of the first movie from the series. Walden Media, who worked with the Disney Corporation, bought the options for all seven books and finally The Chronicles Of Narnia came to life with the first installment The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. It seems that the mandatory approach for all large epic movies now is to film in New Zealand as that is where the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy was filmed and when it was first announced that The Chronicles Of Narnia had finally begun filming and it was in New Zealand there became wide speculation that this meant that there was more than one movie being made just as the Lord Of The Rings movies were all made together. But so far The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is the only movie from The Chronicles Of Narnia to be released and the anticipation made it a huge success. Even though the movie cost nearly $200 Million to make it became a huge box office success and got three Oscar nominations of which it won the Oscar for best makeup.

The first installment in The Chronicles Of Narnia is called The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe and it is about four young children named Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan Pevensie who are sent to the home of an eccentric old professor to escape the Nazi bombings going on near their home in London, England. The children find life with the professor very boring until Lucy, played by Georgie Henley, discovers a secret wardrobe that gives her the ability to see the land of Narnia. The other children think Lucy is crazy until they all go through the wardrobe and wind up in the land of Narnia themselves. Narnia is a beautiful place but right away the children sense something is wrong. They meet up with Aslan, voiced by Liam Neeson, who is the lion that is the king of Narnia but Aslan tells them the story of Narnia. The White Witch has made it snow for 100 years in Narnia and promises no end in sight and no Christmas either. The children were foretold to be the chosen ones that can stop the White Witch and they team up with Aslan to try and defeat the White Witch and bring Narnia out of its 100 years of captivity.

The visual effects in The Chronicles Of Narnia are breathtaking and the story is fascinating. It is widely accepted that CS Lewis was a genius and his seven book series on The Chronicles Of Narnia was already wildly popular before this first movie came out. It is unclear if The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe will be the only Chronicles Of Narnia movie or if more are going to be made, Walden Media owns the rights to all seven books, but if no other Narnia movie is ever made at least there is this one masterpiece of a movie to pay homage to a masterpiece of a book by a brilliant writer. Let us just wait and see if Hollywood, and New Zealand, can get together again to bring more of these brilliant stories to life for the big screen and to save for all time.