2004 Film- Story Rumours

[ray gower]

So Thunderbirds is all about folding palm trees and loud music?

Do you think he missed the rock doorway, sliding swimming pool and of course Virgils tobogan run?

I think one or other of us is missing something.

T3 took off through the Round House. T1 came out of the pool

And it took 6 months to do 3 minutes of graphics?
At that rate it could take 30 years to finish! Perhaps they ought to bring back the models. I understand the episodes only took a fortnight

Incidently the music tended to be loud because it was a full orchestral score, unusual even for films, unheard of for a kids TV show and with the exception of one episode where the incidental music was produced by the Shadows, the rest was recorded by the Boston Symphonic.
I think I would describe it as 'big' rather than 'loud'.

[Dave]

Actually, I may be wrong about T3 and the swimming pool, as I was trying to eat Breakfast and get ready at the same time as watch. And the picture backgrounds were not filled in yet. But that is what it looked like to me. Don't quote me though, it might be the summer house yet.

They had FAB 1 on today (the BBC have been at Shepperton Studios making reports every morning, and looked at the new Wimbledon film too.) The car has a Ford chasis and engine, but it has been hand-built by the same man that made Lara Croft's gold motorcycle, so it's not very Ford-like. it's not very Rolls-Royce like either.

While it looks nothing like the original, it is a rather impressive car. It can do 100mph on a gravel track.

[ray gower]

Well it is coming.
Scheduled for release 23 July 2004 and with a full toy/promotion line up to make it next summers 'Smash Hit'- Another good reason not to go to MacDonalds.

As for the film-

from fanderson
Speaking about Thunderbirds at a recent press conference at Pinewood Studios, actor Sir Ben Kingsley who plays the evil Hood in the film (as seen right), told reporters, "We're making a film of quality. I think we're dealing very much with the rite of passage of a 14-year-old boy who is damned and blessed with heroic parents, one of whom is dead and one of whom is a world hero. It's pure, mythological, rich stuff."

And of Vehicles

(Dominic) Lavery's designs for Thunderbirds 1, 2, 3 and 5 remain reasonably faithful to Derek Meddings's original vehicles, although all are considerably smaller than their television counterparts and Thunderbird 3 now includes a small detachable shuttle vehicle nestling against the hull. The Thunderbird 5 space satellite has become an enormously impressive doughnut-shaped space station mounted by a glittering array of solar panels.

Similarly, the film's various pod vehicles - designed by original television series designer Mike Trim and movie art director Ray Chan - retain the essence of the originals and include the Mole, Firefly and a new Thunderbird 2 pod vehicle, the Thunderiser (similar in function to the television series' Booster Mortar vehicle from Edge Of Impact). However, Thunderbird 4 - designed by Mark Holmes - bears only superficial similarities to the original craft, having become a yellow bathyscaphe vehicle with front-mounted grabs, similar in style to the mini-subs seen in James Cameron's The Abyss (1993). Holmes has also designed the entirely new look of the Tracy Island villa exteriors.

And the bedroom scene- Well bathroom actually


Think I'll go and watch Harry Potter

[ray gower]

Saw a pre-trailer, trailer for the Thunderbirds film today at the cinema. And a preview can be seen at Working Title Films

Does look as those that like explosions will do well, with lots of people flying out into space.

[ray gower]

Well it seems the filming is done.

According to Fanderson, the World Premier is in Birmingham on the 20th July for a charity event.

But if you can't wait that long you can see it in New York, today at 11:00 AM.

Am I being a bit thick, but isn't a premier supposed to be the first time a film is shown to the peasants?

[ray gower]

Just an observation.

But this thing, apart from gaining the grammatically incorrect subtitle of 'Is Go!', has also gained the term 'Comedy' in the genre lists.

Meanwhile the trailers are suggesting a bit of almost every Thunderbirds episode, including the monorail car falling off the track.

For me, the film has gained the sort of level of ghoulish interest hitherto reserved for traffic accidents. I know it is going to be terrible, but I can't help being drawn to it.

[Dave]

Originally posted by ray gower
I know it is going to be terrible, but I can't help being drawn to it.

I feel like that too, but my son has said that he is definately not interested, and I'm not going on my own. Anyway there is too much else in competition with it that I can't seen them all -- Chronicles of Riddick, Spiderman 2, Shrek 2, Garfield, I Robot

I've not seen a trailer yet though, and I saw Harry Potter 3 today, strange that there wasn't one with that.