Andrew Adamson directed the 2005 film *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*.
Adamson also co-wrote the screenplay with Ann Peacock and the team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The film was adapted from C. S. Lewis’s 1950 novel and became the first released installment in the Narnia film series produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media.
The story follows Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, four children evacuated from wartime Britain who discover a wardrobe leading to Narnia. There they join Aslan against the White Witch, played by Tilda Swinton. The principal children were portrayed by William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley.
Chris Columbus is associated with directing the first two *Harry Potter* films, while Peter Jackson directed *The Lord of the Rings* trilogy. Michael Apted later directed *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, which can make his name seem relevant to the franchise but not to this first film.