Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow trailer

December 28th, 2003

If the trailer is anything to go by, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is destined to be jolly good fun. The big production gimmick is that the entire film is shot on bluescreen sets, which might well be hellish for the actors but looks to have produced a handsome end result. The whole trailer looks like a really well-drawn comic book; for no particular reason I can put my finger on, it reminds me of John Cassaday’s work on Planetary. Which is definitely a good thing.

Besides, no film featuring airships going up in flames, dashing fighter pilots (Jude Law), spunky journalists (Gwyneth Paltrow), sexy naval officers (Angelina Jolie) and a fleet of flying giant robots can possibly be a complete waste of time. Can it?

[Via The Copydesk]

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One Response to “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow trailer”

  1. Groc's bloggette Says:
    December 29th, 2003 at 2:13 am

    Sky Captain

    (via soreeyes) the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow pushes all the right 30s/40s style art deco retro-futuro buttons (and levers) for me. After all I’ve only recently bought the box set of ‘Flash Gordon conquers the Universe’ and earl…

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