 Prince Caspian is also the last Narnia film to be co @-@ produced by Walt Disney Pictures , as 20th Century Fox became the distributor of its future films starting with The Chronicles of Narnia : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Work on the script began before The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe was released , so filming could begin before the actors grew too old for their parts . Director Andrew Adamson wanted to make the film more spectacular than the first , and created an action sequence not in the novel . The Narnians were designed to look wilder as they have been hiding from persecution , stressing the darker tone of the sequel . The filmmakers also took a Spanish influence for the antagonistic race of the Telmarines . Filming began in February 2007 in New Zealand , but unlike the previous film , the majority of shooting took place in Central Europe , because of the larger sets available in those countries . To keep costs down , Adamson chose to base post @-@ production in the UK , because of recent tax credits there . 
