Ten months prior to shooting the live-action scenes, Conran first shot them with stand-ins in Los Angeles, then converted that footage to animatics so the actors could accurately envision the film. No major studio was interested, but Avnet convinced Aurelio De Laurentiis to finance Sky Captain without a distribution deal (a worldwide distribution deal would later happen with Paramount Pictures).Īlmost 100 digital artists, modelers, animators, and compositors created the multi-layered 2D and 3D backgrounds for the live-action footage, while the entire film was sketched out via hand-drawn storyboards and then recreated as CG animatics.
He was able to show it to Avnet, who was so impressed that Avnet spent two years working with him on his screenplay. Ĭonran spent four years making a black and white teaser using a bluescreen set up in his living room and a Macintosh IIci. It is an example of 'Ottensian' (pre-WWII) dieselpunk. It stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, often shortened to Sky Captain, is a 2004 science fiction action- adventure film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut, and produced by Jon Avnet, Sadie Frost, Jude Law and Marsha Oglesby.
