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About the Film
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp
adventure, science fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran
in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and
follows the adventures of Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), a newspaper
reporter for The Chronicle, and H. Joseph "Joe" Sullivan (Jude Law),
known as "Sky Captain", as they try to track down and stop the
mysterious "Dr. Totenkopf".
Conran spent four years making a black and white teaser trailer with a
bluescreen set up in his living room and using a Macintosh IIci
personal computer. He was able to get producer Jon Avnet to see it,
who was so impressed that he spent two years working with the aspiring
filmmaker on his screenplay. None of the major studios were interested
in financing such an unusual film with a first-time director. Avnet
convinced Aurelio De Laurentiis to finance Sky Captain without a
distribution deal.
Almost 100 digital artists, modelers, animators and compositors
created the multi-layered 2D and 3D backgrounds for the live-action
footage while the entire movie was sketched out via hand-drawn
storyboards and then re-created as computer-generated 3D animatics.
Ten months before Conran made the movie with his actors, he shot it
entirely with stand-ins in Los Angeles and then created the whole
movie in animatics so that the actors had an idea of what the film
would look like and where to move on the soundstage.
Sky Captain grossed USD $37.7 million in North America, below its
estimated $70 million budget. However, it managed to gross $20.1
million in the rest of the world, making its final worldwide tally
$57.9 million. Critical reviews were largely positive and it is
notable as being one of the first major films (along with Sin City,
Able Edwards, Casshern and Immortal) to be shot entirely on a "digital
backlot", blending live actors with computer generated surroundings. |
