New NARNIA movie gets its first trailer

The third attempt to adapt the entire Chronicles of Narnia book series by C.S. Lewis to film has received its first trailer.For the first time, this attempt will adapt the seven books in chronological order rather than publishing order. Previous efforts always began with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), the first book written and released by Lewis. This new effort from Netflix starts instead with The Magician's Nephew (1955), the sixth-published book but the chronological oldest film in the series. The prequel acts as an origin story for the world of Narnia, the lion Aslan, the witch Jadis and even the wardrobe itself.The first attempt to adapt the entire series was in the late 1980s, when the BBC adapted the first four books in the series - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) and The Silver Chair (1953) - from 1988 to 1990. Declining ratings and increasing costs saw the project cancelled before reaching the…