Director Andrew Adamson skyrocketed to fame with Shrek and Shrek 2. After his Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for Disney made nearly $750 million, he set his sights on the sequel, Prince Caspian. Adamson talks with AMCtv.com about bloodless violence and relaxing with video games.

Q: Can you set up Prince Caspian for us?

A: This film take place 1300 years later than the first film. The Telmarines have destroyed all that was good in the last film: Narnia has become a very dark place where evil abounds. You'll see the darkness everywhere, from the acting to the battles scenes to the sounds you hear and, of course, in the music.

Q: What did you learn from the first movie that helped you with Prince Caspian?

A: One of the things I learned was a better use of my locations. And I watched a lot of more epic films to see how others had used wide shots and the like. I didn't want to bore the audience -- I wanted to engage them completely. So I went into it very conscientiously with respect for the series of books.

Q: This film is full of battle sequences yet not much blood. There's one scene with just a dab of it on the lip.

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Cinema-savvy paleontologist Jack Horner is bringing back dinosaurs any way he can. He helped Hollywood do it as a consultant on the Jurassic Park films and now, using DNA, he's taking a scientific approach. He spoke to us about the latest in science, appreciating science fiction and the future of dinosaurs in film.

Q: What's your favorite sci-fi movie that doesn't deal with dinosaurs?

A: 2001: A Space Odyssey. It starts out with the ape guys hopping up and and down and ends with the embryo; it really does get you thinking about evolution. There aren't many movies that do that.

Q: Does the accuracy of the science affect your opinion?

A: At least it had science in it. Since Jurassic Park came out, my view of science in movies has changed quite a bit. Jurassic Park has a lot of science in it -- and a lot of it is wrong -- but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary. I was very critical of science fiction films when I was younger but came to appreciate the fact that they're not accurate. It's part of making the movie exciting, especially when you can integrate science and science fiction to the point where people aren't really sure which is real and which isn't. After Jurassic Park, people really weren't sure whether you could or could not clone a dinosaur using DNA.

Q: But you are using DNA to try and make a dinosaur. How?

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Skynet might not be a flesh-and-blood company, but T2's Robert Patrick makes a pretty good argument about its technology making its way into society in the very near future.

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