In the summer of 2008, one of the biggest questions critics and entertainment reporters were asking was, "What happened to Prince Caspian?"
The film's predecessor and the first of C.S. Lewis' Narnia stories to reach the big screen, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, shattered industry expectations in 2005 by earning more than $65 million in its opening weekend and going on to gross nearly $300 million domestically. To put those numbers in context, it was the second-highest-grossing movie of the year, beating even Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. So there was no reason for Walden Media, the small, family-friendly studio responsible for Wardrobe, not to expect big things from the sequel.
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