SkyCaptain? Is this based on an anime or manga?

Anlushac11 · Post by **Anlushac11** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:47 am

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http://www.skycaptain.com/home.html

This is a weird movie coming out in June 2004. Watching the preview I can easily see this being based off of a anime or manga. But I am not as well versed on the different titles as some of you on here.

The premise seems too original for hollywood.

Watch the preview and see if it looks familiar, apparently the preview is in theatres now too. Does any of this look or sound familiar?

It has a CGI P-40 Warhawk, walking and flying mecha, Zepplins, Gwenyth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and Jude Law.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:06 am

I can't get the trailer to work.

Krypton-Knight · Post by **Krypton-Knight** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:10 am

Hmmm...from what I gather so far I don't think its based entirely off an anime or manga. However that could change

. Also we can't rule out the fact that the creator was influenced by anime and such.

Interesting note about this film, its ALL CG. One guy(from what I hear) did this movie on a computer, story boarded it, and had character models rendered the way the actors would be. So all they had to do was replace the models with the actors and BAM! movie complete.

pyro_256 · Post by **pyro_256** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:23 am

i don't think it's based on anime or manga. seems more like something made from an old book, judging from people's clothes and technology being used. i could be wrong, but that's the impression i got.

Anlushac11 · Post by **Anlushac11** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 7:45 pm

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I didnt hear that he did it on a computer but that is very cool.

To runit you need latest version of Quicktime installed.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:30 pm

This is OBVIOUSLY inspired by the 1930's and 40's sci fi serials like Buck Rogers, Captain Video, Space Patrol, or Flash Gordon. Even the titleing is classic of that era. Notice that the trailer's music is the them to the movie 'Stargate'?

Anime inspired indeed, you Otaku, you see a giant robot and suddnly think 'OMG BASED ON ANIME!'... Sad.

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:46 pm

that looks like a rather fun movie to watch when it comes out.

Anlushac11 · Post by **Anlushac11** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 7:06 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:This is OBVIOUSLY inspired by the 1930's and 40's sci fi serials like Buck Rogers, Captain Video, Space Patrol, or Flash Gordon. Even the titleing is classic of that era. Notice that the trailer's music is the them to the movie 'Stargate'?

Anime inspired indeed, you Otaku, you see a giant robot and suddnly think 'OMG BASED ON ANIME!'... Sad.

Its not like US TV and movies have 50ft tall mecha on a regular basis. Im excited because the Mecha I think look good and that opens lots of possibilities if it does well, like the Battletech movie thats coming.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:55 am

Sure it did. American 50's B movies were often filled with robots, giant robots, giant insects, and lone 'ace' heroes! Jesus Christ, do ANY of you have ANY fucking idea what went on in the world prior to the year 1980? :/

Krypton-Knight · Post by **Krypton-Knight** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 1:13 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:Sure it did. American 50's B movies were often filled with robots, giant robots, giant insects, and lone 'ace' heroes! Jesus Christ, do ANY of you have ANY fucking idea what went on in the world prior to the year 1980? :/

Thats a little harsh...and the truth is A LOT of people really have no clue what really happend, or existed before their time(minus the big events) but I don't think you can hold it against them.

Anyways Izumi is right, this is based on, and I supose an homage to 1930's-50's movies, comics and the like. Though I could tell from the trailer, I don't expect everyone to know that

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More interesting notes :

- One of the places where that phrase, 'The World of Tomorrow,' was used in the 1930s (when this movie is set) was at the 1939 World Fair in New York City (the one they built that big golfball-looking geodesic sphere for), which used that phrase as its motto.

- This movie will feature a combination of black & white and color scenes.

- According to "Variety" columnist Army Archerd, Angelina Jolie's role in this movie is a "cameo", making the leads very clearly Law and Paltrow.

- Director Kerry Cornan is a CalArts graduate, and his software is a CGI program that allows him to shoot his entire movie against blue screens, and fill in the backgrounds later with images he's been working on for years, which are mostly already done. What this allows Conran to do, which is what is so revolutionary, is to have an already existing 3-D storyboard of every scene, with stick figures in place where the actors are supposed to be. Now, all he has to do is stick in his cast, and he's basically done, it sounds like.