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This order is basically chronological, shifting two books, The Magician’s Nephew and The Horse and His Boy, so that they appear, respectively, before and after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, resulting in this order: Starting in 1994, the Chronicles’ current publishers embraced a different numbering system, the one you’re familiar with. I still have an old boxed edition of the Chronicles that has each volume numbered this way: Whatever the deficiencies of the Narnia movies to date, at least the filmmakers did one thing right: They followed the original publication order, which is how many or most editions numbered them until about 20 years ago. Shouldn’t they have made The Magician’s Nephew before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy before Prince Caspian? Why are they doing The Silver Chair next? The movie order doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m wondering why they made the movies in a different order than the numbering of the books.

Thanks for your article on the Narnia movies.