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The wardrobe is gone...the White Witch is dead...and Aslan has been missing for over 1,000 years.

Now, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are beckoned back to Narnia to find a vastly different world, where a new enemy stalks the battlefield and the land's kindly creatures find themselves on the brink of extinction.

Walt Disney Pictures and Walden

Media present THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN, the second motion picture based on C.S. Lewis' beloved series of literary classics. The film continues the spectacular story that began with the Oscar®winning 2005 release, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which earned over $745 million in its worldwide theatrical release, making it one of the most successful movies ever made, and one of the biggest successes in the annals of the Walt Disney Studios.

Acclaimed director Andrew Adamson (the Oscar®-winning "Shrek," "Shrek 2") embarks on his second Narnian film adventure from a screenplay he co-wrote with Emmy® Award-winning writing partners Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"), who also co-scripted the first film. Adamson also reunites with the producers of the first Narnia movie-Academy Award® winner Mark Johnson ("Rain Man," "Bugsy," "The Notebook") and Philip Steuer ("The Rookie," "The Alamo"). Also reprising their roles are executive producer and former Walden Media executive Perry Moore and co-producer Douglas Gresham, author Lewis' stepson.

Once again toplining as the Pevensie children are the four young British talents discovered by Adamson for the first film: 12-year-old Georgie Henley as Lucy, the youngest and the first to encounter the great Aslan on their new journey through Narnia; 16-year-old Skandar Keynes as Edmund, the younger boy who betrayed his siblings for his own selfish gain in the first adventure; 19-year-old Anna Popplewell as Susan, the cautious and practical older sister; and 21-year-old William Moseley as Peter, the eldest of the siblings and now High King of Narnia who valiantly leads the battle to save his realm from the tyrannical reign of the evil King Miraz.

The film's title character is played by Ben Barnes, a 26-year-old British stage actor best known for his role in the drama "The History Boys" for London's National Theatre Company, the first West End staging of Alan Bennett's award-winning play. He recently completed the film adaptation of Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" opposite Jessica Biel and Colin Firth, starred in the independent feature "Bigga than Ben" and had a featured role in Matthew Vaughn's fantasy film "Stardust."

Also co-starring in the new film are Peter Dinklage ("The Station Agent," "Death at a Funeral," "Elf ") as Trumpkin the Red Dwarf, who accompanies the Pevensie children on their new journey, and Warwick Davis ("Willow," "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "Return of the Jedi") as the suspicious Black Dwarf, Nikabrik.

Veteran Kiwi actor Shane Rangi ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe") plays Asterius, the aging minotaur, and British musical theater star Cornell S. John (Sir Trevor Nunn's "Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," Julie Taymor's "The Lion King") is Glenstorm, the leader of the centaurs.

The film's international cast includes acclaimed Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto ("The Big Blue," "Mostly Martha," "Don't Move") as the villainous King Miraz; fellow Italian performer Pierfrancesco Favino ("Night at the Museum," "Romanzo Criminale") as the leader of the Telmarine army, General Glozelle; Mexican star Damián Alcázar ("Men with Guns," "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ") as Lord Sopespian,

another high-ranking soldier in Miraz's army; Spanish actress Alicia Borrachero ("Periodistas," TV's "Hospital Central," "Love in the Time of Cholera") as Miraz's loyal wife, Queen Prunaprismia; and veteran French-Flemish actor Vincent Grass ("Vatel," "Ma Vie en Rose") as the wise old sage, Doctor Cornelius.

Scottish actor Ken Stott ("Casanova," "King Arthur," "The Boxer") lends his vocal talents to the CGI character of Trufflehunter, the faithful badger. Academy Award® nominee Liam Neeson ("Schindler's List") returns as the voice of Aslan the Lion, and veteran English comic Eddie Izzard (TV's "The Riches") voices Reepicheep, the swashbuckling mouse.

Inspired by Lewis' imaginative creations, the story's human cast will once again be complemented by a gallery of original creatures portrayed onscreen in the combined efforts of live action and CGI animation under the supervision of returning visual effects co-supervisor and Oscar® nominee Dean Wright ("The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," "Titanic"), who will collaborate this time with VFX veteran and longtime Adamson ally Wendy Rogers ("Shrek," "Flushed Away").

The pair, who supervised over 1,600 CGI shots for the film, teamed with the movie magicians at London's Moving Picture Company (all five "Harry Potter" films, "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit"), the Oscar®-winning Framestore-CFC ("Superman Returns," "Children of Men," all five "Harry Potter" films) and Weta Digital in New Zealand. Five-time Academy Award®-winning visualist Richard Taylor ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "King Kong") and the wizards from his Weta Workshop designed the film's armor and

weaponry for Narnia's new inhabitants, the Telmarines.

Oscar® winners Howard Berger, Gregory Nicotero and Tami Lane also return to design and apply the film's special makeup effects, manufacturing hundreds of creature prosthetics for many of the unique characters in the story. KNB EFX Group, Berger's award-winning design house in Los Angeles, fabricated several full-scale animatronic suits for the

story's unique Narnian beasts, which include minotaurs, satyrs and centaurs.

Oscar®-nominated production designer Roger Ford ("Babe," "Peter Pan," "The Quiet American"), award-winning costume designer Isis Mussenden ("Shrek," "Shrek 2," "10 Items or Less"), film editor Sim Evan-Jones ("Shrek," "Shrek 2") and Grammy®-nominated composer Harry Gregson-Williams ("Shrek," "Shrek 2," "Flushed Away") all repeat their roles from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, bvk ("Independence Day," "Stargate") joins Adamson's technical team as director of photography.

In addition to its commercial success, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" also earned numerous awards, including the Oscar® for Best Achievement in Makeup, as well as nominations for visual effects and sound; the British Academy (BAFTA) Award for Best Makeup, along with nominations for visual effects and costumes; Golden Globe® nominations for Best Movie Score and Alanis Morissette's original song "Wunderkind"; and a pair of Grammy® nominations for score and Imogen Heap's original composition "Can't Take It In."

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN began filming on February 12, 2007, for six weeks on both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, where locations again included Henderson Studios' soundstages as well as brand-new sites on the country's alluring Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island. South Island locales included the isolated Haast River Valley bordering the Tasman Sea on the country's verdant South Westland coast, and forests near Paradise Valley and Glenorchy outside of Queenstown.

After concluding the New Zealand portion of the schedule in late March, the company relocated to Eastern Europe and the legendary soundstages at Prague's Barrandov and Modrany Studios. Key exterior locations in the Czech Republic included the Northern Bohemian city of Usti, the primary site of the film's epic climactic battle, and locales in Poland and Slovenia.

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