The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Facts
Prince Caspian, the second instalment of The Chronicles Of Narnia, is on an even more ambitious scale than The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and will feature bigger battles, more effects shots, more CGI creatures and some of the largest sets ever created for a Hollywood movie.
Here are some facts, figures, and essential trivia about what’s sure to be one of the most talked about films of the year.
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- The Chronicles of Narnia books have sold more than 100,000,000 to date and have been translated into 35 different languages.
- Cast member Skandar Keynes, who plays Edmund Pevensie, grew 6 ½ inches in the time between making The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince
Caspian.
- The cast and crew of Prince Caspian came from 15 different countries, including the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Mexico, Italy and France. More than 9 different languages were spoken on set.
- Director Andrew Adamson gave cast member Anna Popplewell (Susan Pevensie) time off from the film’s shoot so she could fly to London to attend her school prom. Anna changed into her ball dress in a bathroom and had time for two dances before she had to return to Prague.
- Total worldwide box-office for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was $745 million, making it one of the most successful films of all time.
- In contrast to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, make-up artist Tami Lane and Oscar winning make-up designer (for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) Howard Berger decided to create Narnians of many different ages and races for Prince Caspian. The new film will feature female Centaurs for the first time as well as Centaur children and an 80-year-old Faun.
- If some of the locations in Prince Caspian look familiar it’s because the production shot in some of the same remote areas of New Zealand’s South Island that previously appeared as Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Director Andrew Adamson spent more than a year searching for the right actor to play the title role in Prince Caspian but cast 26-year-old British actor Ben Barnes for the career-making part just 3 ½ weeks before shooting began.
- King Miraz’s castle occupied 20,000 square feet and is partly based on Pierrefonds Castle, which is located outside Paris in France.
- The castle took 200 carpenters, plasterers and painters 15 weeks to build.
- Ford based his design for the bridge on the one Julius Caesar built across the Rhine in his battle against the Germans.
- To accommodate Ford’s plans industrial engineers temporarily rerouted the flow of the River Soca.
- The London tube station where the Pevensie children begin their adventure in Prince Caspian isn’t located in London at all. Ford built the realistic set at the Henderson Studios on New Zealand’s North Island.
- Make-up effects designer Howard Berger worked with a team of 50 make-up artists and supervised 4,600 individual make-up sessions over the course of the production.
- Actor Warwick Davis spent 3 ½ hours each day having a facial prosthetic applied to transform him into the Black Dwarf Nikabrik.
- Total number of individual items of clothing made for the film’s main cast: 1042.
- Total number of individual items, including helmets, masks, boots and gloves, made for King Miraz and his Lords and the Telmarine army: 3722.
- Total number of crewmembers working in the costume department: 70.
- Number of continents director Andrew Adamson visited looking for locations for the film: 5.
- Principal locations for the film: New Zealand, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland.
