The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will read an emotion into it." Andrew Adamson described the film as being darker, as it takes place "another 1300 years later, [and] Narnia has been oppressed by Telmarines for a large period of that time, so it's a dirtier, grittier, darker place than the last world was". He added, "This one is more of a boy's movie. It's a harsher world. The villains are human, and that lends a more realistic attitude." Creatures were designed by veteran horror and monster concept artist Jordu Schell and supervised by Howard Berger, who said that "Prince Caspian" would be more medieval than
Religion in The Chronicles of Narnia humanism, has serious objections to the Narnia series. On the other hand, the books have appeared in Neo-pagan reading lists (by the Wiccan author Starhawk, among others). Positive reviews of the books by authors who share few of Lewis' religious views can be found in "Revisiting Narnia", edited by Shanna Caughey. The producers of the 2005 film hoped to tap into the large religious audience revealed by the success of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ", and at the same time hoped to produce an adventure film that would appeal to secular audiences; but they (and the reviewers