Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Who will save us?
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Budget
$70 000 000
Box office
$57 958 696
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Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Jude Law, Jon Avnet, Sadie Frost, Marsha Oglesby, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Aurelio De Laurentiis, Bill Haber
Camera operator
Eric Adkins
Composer
Artist
Kevin Conran, Merrick Rustia, Brett Paton
Audition
Sheila Trezise
Editing
Sabrina Plisco, Matthew Feitshans
Whole Team (159)
Whole Team (159)
Short description
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.
What's left behind the scenes
- The first screening of the film took place on July 22, 2004, in San Diego. There were about two months left until the premiere, which provided hope for correcting some imperfections and shortcomings.
- The film was supposed to be released on June 25, 2004. However, after the release date for "Spider-Man 2" (June 30, 2004) was announced, the producers, just to be on the safe side, postponed the release by as much as 3 months – to September 17, 2004.
- The role of Dr. Totenkopf was “played” by actor Laurence Olivier – his face was recreated from old photographs.
- Angelina Jolie participated in filming for only three days. However, despite this, she met with many British pilots, veterans of World War II, long before participating in the film, to showcase some character traits of that period and convey some of the slang of the time to the audience.
- Dexter Diborn was originally supposed to be played by Casey Affleck.
- Peter Law, who played Dr. Kessler, is the father of Jude Law.
- The model of the aircraft flown by the Sky Captain – the R-40 fighter.
- Filming of the picture began on March 14, 2003, and ended on April 8, 2003.
- Joe and his friends fly over a graveyard of sunken ships. Among them are the 'Titanic' and the ship that carried King Kong (you can even see the giant monkey's cage).
- The film was initially shot on black and white film and subsequently colorized on a computer.
- The sound of the blasters installed in the heads of the giant robots was taken from the film 'The War of the Worlds' (1953).
- The very first scene filmed for the movie was the entrance of the Sky Captain into his office on the base, where Polly was waiting for him.
- Practically the entire film was shot against the blue screen, so disliked by the actors. This has become commonplace recently, as many films are packed with all sorts of computer graphics. According to the creators, there are only a few shots in the film that do not have computer special effects applied.
- To speed up the editing process, director Kerry Conran shot a lot of various shots against a blue screen. As a result, he was able to manipulate the footage and avoid spending extra time on re-shooting main scenes.
- The project was initially titled “The World of Tomorrow,” however, after the release of Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After Tomorrow” was announced, it was decided to add the name of the main character to the title.
- The idea of creating a full-length film arose after Kerry Conran shot a 6-minute video about robots walking around New York. Producer John Evnet was so impressed with what he saw that he managed to convince Conran to turn his ideas into a full-fledged project.
- Although Kerry Conran filmed a movie about events taking place in the future New York, he had never visited this metropolis in his life. He was assisted in working on the set design only by old photographs of city landmarks, many of which were digitized, processed, and used in the film as a background.
- The film was supposed to be released on June 25, 2004. However, after the release date of "Spider-Man 2" (June 30, 2004) was announced, the producers, just to be on the safe side, postponed the release by as much as 3 months — to September 17, 2004.
- Totenkopf translates from German as "Dead Head".
- Almost the entire film was shot against a blue screen, which the actors disliked. Recently, this has become commonplace, as many films are packed with all sorts of computer graphics. According to the creators, there are only a few shots in the movie that did not utilize computer special effects.
- To speed up the editing process, director Carrie Conran filmed a vast array of shots against a blue screen. As a result, he was able to manipulate the footage without spending additional time on retakes of the main scenes.
- The project was originally titled 'The World of Tomorrow,' but after it became known that Roland Emmerich's film 'The Day After Tomorrow' was being released, the decision was made to add the name of the main character to the title.
- The idea for a feature-length film emerged after Carrie Conran filmed a 6-minute clip of robots walking through New York. Producer John Evenet was so impressed by what he saw that he managed to convince Conran to turn the existing concepts into a full-scale project.
- Although Carrie Conran filmed a movie about events taking place in the New York of the future, he had never visited the metropolis in his entire life. In designing the sets, he relied solely on old photographs of city landmarks, many of which were digitized, processed, and used as backgrounds in the film.
- The film was scheduled for wide release on June 25, 2004. However, after the release date for 'Spider-Man 2' was announced (June 30, 2004), the producers decided to play it safe and pushed the release back by as much as three months, to September 17, 2004.
- The role of Doctor Totenkopf was "played" by actor Laurence Olivier—his face was recreated based on old photographs.
- Angelina Jolie participated in filming for only three days. Despite this, long before joining the movie, she met with many British pilots and World War II veterans to depict certain personality traits of that era and convey some of the period's slang to the audience.
- Casey Affleck was originally intended to play Dex Diborne.
- The sound of the blasters installed in the heads of the giant robots was taken from the film "The War of the Worlds" (1953).
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