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, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan (Jude Law), alias "Sky Captain," as they track down the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf (Laurence Olivier), who is seeking to build the "World of Tomorrow".

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 show it to producer Jon Avnet, who was so impressed that he spent two years working with the aspiring filmmaker on his screenplay. No major studio was 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 cast, he shot it entirely with stand-ins in Los Angeles and then created it in animatics so the actors had an idea of what the film would look like. Sky Captain is notable as one of the first major films (along with Sin City (2005), Casshern (2004), and Immortal (2004) to be shot entirely on a "digital backlot", blending live actors with computer generated surroundings.

Sky Captain grossed $37.7 million in North America and $20.1 million in the rest of the world, totalling $57.9 million, below its estimated $70 million budget. Since the overhead of theater, marketing, and other costs raises the break-even point of a film to roughly double its production cost, it likely lost about $80,000,000 prior to TV and DVD revenues.

Another movie most love, but I really didn't like. Oh well, we all have our different tastes.

I didn't like it either, but I knew I wouldn't.

C-

I downloaded this months ago but still have to see it.

very entertaining movie!, the beginning was kinda boring, but after that all was great!
the Visuals are great, Dark, i like it!

is like going on a Disneyland ride because of the music!, and some part remind me of Batman :???:

why do they announce Angelina on the Cover (i was disappointed she wasnt in much of the movie! ) that was more of a cameo!

B-

Very underrated! I saw this at a special screening a couple of days before it was released in theaters, and I thought I'd hate it. The only reason I saw it was because I had free passes, wow, I was very impressed. I was so into the story. It's unfortunante that not many people like it.

9/10 (A-)

Underrated?! More like.. Overrated.

Hmm, nope. I would say something like AvP is overrated. And you know it. :razz:

Alien vs. Predator is a love/hate kind of movie. There's definently people that love it, and people that hate it.

Sky Captain is something that most people love, while a few are either dissapointed immensly or just hated it. :wink:

Underrated?! More like.. Overrated.