Two years in the planning and nearly 18 months in production, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a film surrounded by dizzying facts and figures long before its scheduled release this December. 

Whether it’s the 1,350 weapons created; the 2,000 plus children auditioned for the four key roles; or the more than 1,000 computer-generated images required to produce the minotaurs, centaurs, cyclops, and other unusual animals that inhabit the world of Narnia, everything about the film is big and ambitious.