Sky Captain and the wolrd of Tomorrow DVD 2004 Sky kapitány és a holnap világa / Directed by Kerry Conran / Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie

UPC 5999545584005

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitles: English, Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 103 MINUTES

English Summary:

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American 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. The film stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie. It is an example of "Ottensian" (pre-WWII) dieselpunk.

In a technologically-advanced 1939, the zeppelin Hindenburg III moors itself atop the Empire State Building. Aboard the airship is Dr. Jorge Vargas, a scientist who arranges for a package containing two vials to be delivered to Dr. Walter Jennings. The courier looks back while leaving with the vials, to see that Dr. Vargas has vanished.

Polly Perkins, a reporter for The Chronicle, is looking into the disappearances of Vargas and five other renowned scientists. A cryptic message leads her to Radio City Music Hall, against the warnings of her editor, Mr. Paley, where she meets Dr. Jennings during a showing of The Wizard of Oz. He tells her that a Dr. Totenkopf is coming for him next. Suddenly, seemingly indestructible robots attack the city. Clearly outmatched, the authorities call for "Sky Captain" Joe Sullivan, the city's hero, Perkins' former lover, and the commander of the private air force the Flying Legion.

While Joe engages the robots with his modified Curtiss P-40 pursuit fighter, Perkins photographs from the street with little regard for her safety. He eventually manages to disable one robot; the rest leave thereafter. News reports show similar attacks around the globe. The disabled robot is taken back to the Legion's air base so that technology expert Dex can examine it. Polly follows and convinces Joe to reluctantly let her in on the investigation. Her information takes them to the ransacked laboratory of a dying Dr. Jennings, while an assassin escapes. Just before he dies, Jennings gives Polly the two vials and states that they are crucial to Totenkopf's plans. Polly hides the vials and withholds the information from Joe. They return to the Legion's base just before it comes under attack from squadrons of ornithopter drones. Dex tracks the origin of the signal controlling the drones and notes it on a map before his capture.

Hungarian Summary:

Híres tudósok tűnnek el titokzatos módon, szerte a világon, és hamarosan félelmetes, óriási robotok jelennek meg széttiporva mindent New York utcáin, autókat hajigálva, pületeket zúzva pozdorjává, kisvártatva pedig a Hindenburg III nevű, gigantikus léghajó landol az Empire State Building tetején. E sorozatos rejtélynek ügyében kezd el nyomozni Polly Perkins, a Chronicle riportere, aki régi szerelmét, Joseph Sullivan kapitányt - a Sky kapitánynak nevezett - bravúros képességű és vakmerő repülős tisztet is megnyeri az ügynek. Céljuk Dr. Totenkopf hollétének felkutatása, mert ez az ördögi elme az értelmi szerzője a világ elpusztítását célzó őrült tervnek. Veszélyes missziójukban segít nekik egy csak nőkből álló, vízi- és szárazföldi kombinált hadműveletekre kiképzett század és bátor parancsnokuk, Franky Cook valamint a műszaki zseni Dex is. Lehet, hogy Polly Perkins és Sky Kapitány az egyedüli remény bolygónk számára? Vajon időben megtalálja-e két bátor lélek a ravasz és megfoghatatlan Totenkopfot?

Cast / Szereplők:

• Jude Law as Joseph Sullivan/Sky Captain: He commands a private air force known as the Flying Legion. His personal aircraft is a modified Curtiss P-40. In 2002, producer Jon Avnet showed Law the teaser trailer and the actor was very impressed by what he saw. He remembers, "All I got at that early stage was that he'd used pretty advanced and unused technology to create a very retrospective look."^[3] Avnet gave him the script to read and some preliminary artwork to look at. Law said "What was clear was also that at the center was a really great cinematic relationship, which you could put into any genre and it would work. You know, the kind of bickering [relationship]. I always like to call it The African Queen meets Buck Rogers."^[3] Avnet wanted to work with Law because he knew that the actor had "worked both period, who worked both having theatrical experience, who worked on blue screen, who hadn't hit yet as a major action star."^[4] The actor had just finished filming Cold Mountain (2003) and was intrigued at going from filming on real locations to working on a movie done completely on a soundstage. Sky Captain would be one of three Jude Law films released by Paramount Pictures in 2004, along with the remake of Alfie (2004) and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). It also was one of six overall Jude Law films released that year.
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Polly Perkins, reporter for the New York Chronicle. Law believed so much in Conran's movie that he became one of the producers and used his clout to get Paltrow involved. Once she had been suggested for the role, Law did not remember "any other name coming up. It just seems that she was perfect. She was as enthusiastic about the script and about the visual references that were sort of put to her, and jumped on board."^[4] Paltrow said in an interview, "I thought that this is the time to do a movie like this where it's kind of breaking into new territory and it's not your basic formulaic action-adventure movie."
• Angelina Jolie as Commander Francesca "Franky" Cook: She commands a Royal Navy flying aircraft carrier. Jolie had just arrived from the set of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) and agreed to work on the movie for three days. Despite her small role, she reportedly had conducted hours of interviews with fighter pilots in order to absorb their jargon and get a feel for the role.
• Giovanni Ribisi as Dex, ace mechanic of the Flying Legion. Ribisi met with Avnet and, initially, was not sure that he wanted to do the movie but after seeing the teaser trailer, he signed on without hesitation.
• Michael Gambon as Editor Paley, editor of the Chronicle newspaper in New York
• Omid Djalili as Kaji, former comrade-in-arms from the Flying Legion
• Bai Ling as The Mysterious Woman, Totenkopf's henchwoman, who is also a gynoid.
• Julian Curry as Dr. Jorge Vargas, a missing scientist
• Trevor Baxter as Dr. Walter Jennings, a missing scientist
• Peter Law as Dr. Kessler, a missing scientist
• Laurence Olivier as Dr. Totenkopf, the mysterious mad scientist and supervillain; Olivier had been deceased for nearly 13 years at the time of filming, and was depicted in the film via computer manipulation of video and audio from when he was a young actor.
• Khan Bonfils as one of the double-agent guides working for Totenkopf (identified in the credits as "Creepy"; the other guide is "Scary")