Saving the galaxy one planet at a time!
In the year 3028 A.D., Earth is being attacked by the Drej, which are aliens made of pure energy! The Drej mother-ship destroys Earth with an energy beam just as hundreds of space vehicles manage to escape with the last of mankind aboard! One of the escapees is Sam’s young son Cale, who carries with him a ring given to him by his father.
Fifteen years later, Cale works on a salvage station, eking out a rough life and hating his father for having disappeared aboard the Titan so long ago. Without a home planet, surviving humans have been reduced to outer space drifters and are constantly bullied and looked down on by other space-faring races. A human captain named Joseph Korso and his pilot Akima seek out Cale and explain that he must help them find the Titan which contains a mechanism that will create a new Earth and therefore unite all of humanity. Meanwhile, the Drej wants to find the Titan so that they can destroy it.
With Korso’s help, Cale discovers that the ring his father gave to him contains a genetically encoded map to the Titan, and thus begins his race across the universe with Korso and his ship and crew, including Preed, a wisecracking rat-like humanoid, Gune, an eccentric, green-skinned scientist, and Stith, a tough, hard-as-nails weapons expert who resembles something of a kangaroo. Before long, Cale and Akima finds out that Korso is searching for the Titan in order to hand it over to the Drej.
Titan A.E. is a 2000 American animated science fiction film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Its title refers to the spacecraft central to the plot, with A.E. meaning “After Earth”. It stars Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo and Drew Barrymore.
The film’s animation technique combines traditional hand-drawn animation and extensive use of computer generated imagery. Its working title was Planet Ice. It was theatrically released on June 16, 2000, by 20th Century Fox and was the final film for Fox Animation Studios. The film grossed $36.8 million on a $75–$90 million budget, making a $100-million loss for the studio.
Titan A.E. (2000)
Directed by: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Starring: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore, Ron Perlman, Alex D. Linz, Tone Loc, Jim Breuer, Christopher Scarabosio
Screenplay by: Ben Edlund, John August, Joss Whedon
Production Design by: Philip A. Cruden
Film Editing by: Bob Bender, Paul Martin Smith, Fiona Trayler
Costume Design by: June 16, 2000
Art Direction by: Kenneth Valentine Slevin
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: PG for action violence, mild sensuality and brief language.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: June 16, 2000
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