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Title Note: (2/13/03) 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. (12/10/03) Paramount has lengthened the title a bit, going with something that sounds even more like an old serial... 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.'

Coloring Note: (5/17/03) This movie will feature a combination of black & white and color scenes.

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Company: Brooklyn Films

Cast: Jude Law (Captain Joseph Sullivan, AKA Sky Captain), Gwyneth Paltrow (Polly Perkins), Angelina Jolie, Casey Affleck (Dex), Bai Ling; other cast not announced yet.
Director: Kerry Conran (feature film debut)

Director Notes: (2/13/03) Very little is known about Kerry Cornan, except that he (or she?) is 29 years old, and wrote some sort of "incredible software" to go along with the script that impressed producer Aurelio De Laurentiis (Leviathan) enough that he got the wheels rolling to get this project a $60 million dollar budget. What sort of software could it have been... and who exactly is Kerry Conran? (4/17/03) A few different people have written in to answer at least one of those questions, but I forgot to post it here. Kerry is definitely a "he". The bigger questions remain unanswered. (5/17/03) Not anymore, they don't. The Los Angeles Times has revealed that 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.

Screenwriter: Kerry Conran (feature film debut)


Sequel Notes: (8/28/03) Director and screenwriter Kerry Conran has been given the greenlight to start work on a script for a second movie, in what is now being envisioned as a trilogy.

Premise Notes: (2/13/03) The exact details of this movie aren't yet known, except that it's a 1930s-set action adventure with a pulp fiction feel similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark, except it's influenced by science fiction in ways that film wasn't. Key to the story are a reporter (Paltrow) who's covering the January 13th, 1938 New York premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Radio City Music Hall, an accomplished female airplane pilot (Jolie), a "swashbuckling" pilot/adventure (Law), and his tech-savvy sidekick, Dex (Affleck). (5/17/03) This L.A. Times article has filled in quite a few of the blank holes.

Premise: This science fiction adventure set in the 1930s starts as New York City reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) starts to investigate why so many famous scientists are starting to be reported missing. Soon, she starts to get clues, as strange flying machines and giant robots threaten the city. Luckily, her old flame, aviator Captain Joseph Sullivan (Law), AKA Sky Captain, is there to battle the bad guys with his friends, the Flying Legion, in his Warhawk P-40. Soon, Polly is flying away with Sky Captain to Nepal to find a crazy scientist, Dr. Totenkopf, who apparently wants to destroy the world...

Filming: Production started in March, 2003 in London on a budget of $70 million and wrapped up later that spring. Postproduction on this heavily-CGI film is expected to wrap up in June, 2004.
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