Journey to Atlantis

Journey to Atlantis is a 2015 computer-animated/live-action animated comedy adventure film directed by Andrew Adamson and Rupert Sanders, with co-directed by Ben Stiller and Jack Black, produced by Don Hahn and Pam Marsden and written by Brad Bird, Scott Rosenberg and Jonathan Roberts.

The film features the original cast from Atlantis reprise their roles inculding Michael J. Fox, Cree Summer, John Mahoney, Jacqueline Obradors, Don Novello, James Garner (His final film role), Claudia Christian, Corey Burton, Phil Morris and Leonard Nimoy (his final role before he died in 2015), with an ensemble cast includes Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams (his final film role), Eli Marienthal, Brian Blessed, Ian McShane, Emma Watson and Michael Peña.

It was released in theaters on June 14, 2015 in the United States which is the first film to be released on Sunday and October 4, 2015 on DVD. The short was originally included but was dropped. But it was replaced by Po's Car Problem. It was also shown in UK cinemas.

Cast

 * Dwayne Johnson as Allias Salmon
 * Jack Black as Po and Ryan Burke
 * Michael J. Fox as Milo James Thatch
 * Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu
 * Cree Summer as Kidagakash Kida Nedakh, Milo's love interest.
 * Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, an intelligent, energetic and curious 9-year-old boy with an active imagination. Marienthal's performances were videotaped and given to animators to work with, which helped develop expressions and acting for the character.
 * Harry Connick, Jr. as Dean McCoppin, a beatnik artist and junkyard owner. Bird felt it appropriate to make the character a member of the beat generation, as they were viewed as mildly threatening to small-town values during that time. An outsider himself, he is among the first to recognize the Giant as no threat.
 * Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes, the widow of a military pilot and Hogarth's mother.
 * James Garner as Commander Lyle Tiberuis Rourke, the former leader. He got killed when the crew escape from the burning campsite. Garner died before the release of the movie and his recording sessions were finished in May 2014. This film is dedicated to his memory.
 * Jacqueline Obradors as Audrey Ramirez, a Spanish mechanic.
 * Don Novello as Vincenzo "Vinny" Satorini, a bomber and an Italian expert.
 * Claudia Christain as Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair, a German woman who is one of the detueragonists.
 * Phil Morris as Joshua Strongbear Sweet, a doctor.
 * Seth Rogen as Mantis
 * Lucy Liu as Viper
 * David Cross as Crane
 * Robin Williams as Lovelace, a rockhopper Penguin who is the guru, Williams died on August 11, 2014 at the age of 63, when his recording was finished. His posthumous releases were include A Merry Friggin' Christmas, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Absolutely Anything and The Fampsons : Legend of the Golden Lion.
 * Ian McShane as Tai Lung, a snow leopard.
 * Michael Peña as Dhruv
 * Leonard Nimoy as King Kashekim Nedakh, Kida’s father and King of Atlantis. Nimoy reprising his role from the original film, but died when his recording sessions completed on December 2014 months before his death. This film is dedicated to his memory.
 * Christopher McDonald as Kent Mansley
 * Dan Fogler as Zeng, a messanger palace goose,
 * Jenny Slate as Lisa
 * Emma Watson as Megan
 * Ian McShane also plays Ella Williams
 * Cee Lo Green as Samy
 * John Goodman as Bailey Walker
 * John DiMaggio as Lynn
 * Alan Tudyk as Reece
 * as Hope Torrison
 * Corey Burton as Getan "The Mole" Moliere, a man who acts like a mole.
 * Dan Fogler also plays Sean Casserly
 * Robert De Niro as Movie Boss
 * will.i.am as Pedro
 * Jamie Foxx as Nico
 * Common as
 * Peter Falk as Old Man
 * Vincent Pastore as Lucas
 * Michael Imperioli as Morgan Burke
 * Bryan Cranston as Sean Burke
 * Martin Scorsese as James
 * Ray Romano as Manny
 * Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, a hornbill and the major-domo of the Pridelands. Despite his medium role, he serves a large billing in the movie posters. Also, he breaks the fourth wall seven times in the film.
 * Meagan Smith as Gwen Tennyson
 * Paul Eiding as Max Tennyson
 * Christopher Lloyd as Thaddeus Thatch
 * Blake Clark as Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth, a cook who is one of the team.
 * Florence Stanley as Whilimena Bertha Packard, a radio operator. (Archive audio)

Release
Journey to Atlantis is released in general release on June 5, 2015 and also June 12, 2015. It was also released in the UK, July 24, 2015, In Australia on August 11, 2015, in New Zealand on September 23, 2015 and Germany on October 23, 2015. The film will be also released in Hindi, on November 20, 2015.

The film was also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2015 and has its world premiere at Vue Leicester Square, London on June 23, 2015. During the premiere, one of the men hang lanterns on the Vue Cinema, searchlights, a Ketak and put an Atlantean statue on the carpet. Rappers Dizzie Rascal and Common were invited at the film’s premiere. 14 year old autistic Ryan Burke and Allias Salmon were invited to the film’s premiere. They had their make-up for being harsh on each other about film ideas and apologised to each other for being horrible to each other.

Release dates

 * France - April 5, 2015 (Cannes Film Festival)
 * USA - April 14, 2015 (Cannes Film Festival)
 * USA - May 22, 2015 (Hollywood premiere)
 * Kuwait - May 27, 2015
 * Canada - May 29, 2015
 * UK - May 29, 2015 (London Film Festival)
 * China - June 5, 2015
 * Poland - June 5, 2015
 * Syria - June 5, 2015
 * UK - June 23, 2015 (London premiere)
 * Japan - February 12, 2016

Soundtrack
The film’s soundtrack was released on May 4, 2015, months before the film’s release. Elton John’s Songs was used in the film.
 * Circle of Life - Elton John
 * I Wish - Stevie Wonder
 * Forget You - Cee Lo Green
 * Where the Dream Takes You - Mya
 * Hit Me Up - Gia Farrell
 * I Wish - Stevie Wonder. Fantasia, Patti LaBelle, and Yolanda Adams
 * Tightrope - Janelle Monáe, Dwayne Johnson, Lil-P Nut, B.o.B
 * Morning Report - Rowan Atkinson and Jeff Bennett
 * A Dream - Common and Will.i.am
 * Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars and Phillip Lawrence.
 * Its a Jungle Out here - Phillip Lawrence

Trivia

 * This is the first film to star Jack Black and Dwayne Johnson together, the second is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2 years later.
 * Jack Black’s first directorial debut.
 * This film is dedicated to the memory of James Garner, Robin Williams, Leonard Nimoy, Jim Varney and Florence Stanley.
 * The short was originally going to planned but was dropped and replaced by Po's Car Problem.
 * Final film of John Mahoney, before his death 3 years later.
 * Dustin Hoffman (Master Shifu), Claudia Christian (Helga) and Jack Black (Po) all born in August.
 * The footage was moving the same shot each 10 weeks a day.
 * Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr and Christopher McDonald all reprise their roles from The Iron Giant, Marienthal has deepened after the film came out and he is too old to voice Hogarth in this film. So the filmmakers hired unused archival recordings to make Hogarth sound like a 9 year old boy again.
 * James Garner passed away at the age of 86 after the film was completed, he never get to see the finished project. This film is dedicated to his memory at the end credits. He finished his dialogue because of health issues and died of a massive heart attack a months later. The scene where the fireflies attack the camp where Garner recorded his last line when he sacrifices himself to save Allias and the crew. His last line was "Take care, Thatch" almost nearly upsets the producers and saw his tearful performance. Michael J. Fox stated that Garner would be missed and someone needs to take his place.
 * Helga’s death was originally going to be thrown out the zeppelin, but they thought that the scene would copy Atlantis The Lost Empire, so it was changed so her death is similar to Scar from The Lion King.
 * The film was originally similar to Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but they thought that they would copy Atlantis: The Lost Empire so they changed it to make it similar to King Kong (2005).
 * Was released the same year as San Andreas (2015), also starring Dwayne Johnson.
 * John Goodman was cast as Bailey Walker, following his performance on Monsters Inc.
 * Dwayne Johnson recorded his dialogue during the breaks of G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
 * Hans Zimmer was hired as the composer following his performance on The Lion King.
 * Christopher Lloyd was cast as Thaddeus Thatch, following his performance on Back to the Future, which starred Michael J. Fox.
 * The battle on the zeppelin between Milo and Helga is the same scene as Simba and Scar from The Lion King.
 * The End credits of the film shows a couple of photos of scenes that takes place after the events of the film. Also, the drawings in the credits were designed by John Pomeroy and Chris Sanders
 * The filmmakers told the story of how Hogarth was adopted after his father figure Dean McCoppin and his mother Annie Hughes died and got killed by Sharptooth so Ryan adopted him because he was a close friend.
 * Originally, Milo was going to be killed at the end of the film, but the writers changed their minds.
 * There was a scene after the credits where Rourke was in heaven chatting to Annie and Dean, but the scene was removed due to last minute. This can be shown on the DVD and Blu Ray releases.
 * The song Tightrope and Hit Me Up that was used in the end credits, was both used in Happy Feet 1 and 2.
 * In Happy Feet Two, Lovelace is wearing his rainbow sweater, but in this film, he never wears it.
 * The job of composing the score was offered to John Powell, but he left the project due to his work on Pan.
 * Emma Watson was cast as Megan Hassan following her performance on This is The End.
 * The short was originally going to planned but was dropped and replaced by Po's Car Problem.
 * Ryan, Allias, The Charlton Park Academians, their families and the people were live-action characters of the film, but they have to be voiced by the actors.
 * Mike Mitchell, who is one of the producers of the film, was the director of Shrek Forever After.
 * Michael J. Fox, Cree Summer, James Garner, Don Novello, Phil Morris, Claudia Christian, Jacqueline Obradors, Corey Burton, Leonard Nimoy, Florence Stanley and John Mahoney all reprise their roles from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Blake Clark did Cookie's voice in the film, while Stanley used archive recordings to voice Mrs Packard.
 * The film had began production in 2012 and ended in January 2014. This is the first time that Charlton Park Academians played themsleves during filming. One of the writers stated that they might have copied This is the End but the studio might have let it go. Both movies, on the other hand, starred Emma Watson.
 * Opening IMAX countdown was altered for this movie.
 * Pixie Lott‘s first feature length movie, the first is Fred: The Movie.
 * The film has similarities to Atlantis: The Lost Empire; But has a lot a differences, Rourke was an anti hero instead of being evil like in the original movie, the lava whales, land beast and squid bats appear in the film, Helga has a goon Clayton and furthermore, Milo is serious rather than nerdish and get very angry sometimes as is seen completely fed up of Helga, Kida didn’t get chosen by the crystal, Sweet interacts with Helga and Audrey, Mole is playful and Vinny is completely fed up of Helga’s abuse. Helga appeared in the film but unlike the original film, however, where she is seductive, reluctant, sympathetic, charming, and manipulative, Helga is vindictive and cruel, she is violent and aggressive, after Rourke died, and very verbally and physically abusive and rude to his team members inculding Clayton, but unlike Clayton from Tarzan; however; he doesn’t do any violence and despite that, stands up to Helga.
 * The Lava Whales, The Land Beast and Lava dogs will appear in the movie.
 * James Garner, who voiced Commander Rourke, died at the age of 86 after finishing his voice work when he completed his lines at recording session. The film dedicated to his memory. Following the premeire, James Garner never lived to see it happen because of his death. The filmmakers were tearful at Garner's performance with the last line "Thatch, go back to bed!!!". He passed away after saying that line. Garner's dedication will be the end credits of the movie.
 * The film will be rated PG, despite the content for audiences. Some scenes may have gotten a film a PG-13 or R rating.
 * While recorded dialouge for his character, Jack Black quoted his interviews, his films and video games lines. He also quoted Goosebumps, which also stars Jack Black.
 * The film was released 2 days after Jurassic World which came out on June 12.
 * Eli Marienthal was too old to play Hogarth in the film since his voice deepend and yet he gone through puberty, so the producers having him sound like a "nine-year old kid" again. But it was soon possible that recordings had started and Marienthal stated that he wants to play Hogarth again. The filmmakers often used archive unused audio to use Hogarth's younger voice, like he did in The Iron Giant.
 * Director Mike Mitchell chose Mark Wahlberg to play Ryan, but Wahlberg had other commitments on Ted 2, during production, so he left the project altogether, leaving Mitchell’s second choice Jack Black to take on the role Instead.
 * The short Po's Car Problem was shown in UK cinemas. The audiences started laughing at the scene of the short. The manager stated that it was the most funniest short in years. The man in the back started snickering in the front row. While the man started chuckling at the sight of them.
 * Ryan Burke and Allias Salmon stated in a interview that the two played themselves during filming like in This is the End when Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen play themselves each other.
 * In all verisons, Vinny is voiced by Don Novello, in Italian and Spanish versions. Same for Audrey who was voiced by Jacqueline Obradors in English, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese, Mexican, Espanol and Latina versions of the film. Helga, of course, is voiced by Claudia Christian who voices her in German and Dutch versions.
 * Ryan’s Family was going to accompany their son on their quest to Atlantis, but due to pacing reasons, their role got cut down and where they have a cameo in the film. in the movie, Ellie says "Good morning, Dad!” when Ryan and his Dad Sean were driving Down to Sue’s house, Morgan has one scene and line, Amanda has four scenes and Sean has five scenes.
 * Screenwriter Justin Theroux and Claudia Christian (Helga) share the same birthday (August 10) 1 year apart.
 * First time that Jack Black directed and producing this film, but not only voiced Po and plays Ryan Burke. But he directed this film.
 * Was released on the same day as Ben 10: The Movie, also starring Ian McShane.
 * Robert De Niro has a cameo in the film, but only appears in promotional material, but was absent in the trailers for somewhat reasons unknown. He was rumoured to have a role in the film, until he accepted the part where the studio asked Niro to have cameo role in the film which he stated that a "clause in his contract that people don’t speak about me until it’s revealed. I got a surprise to be in the film". His co-stars from Shark Tale; Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger, Martin Scorsese, Peter Falk, Vincent Pastore and Michael Imperioli appear in this film.
 * Was released on the same year as Goosebumps, also starring Jack Black and Fast and Furious 7, also starring Dwayne Johnson. The film also released as the same month as Ant-Man, also starring Michael Pena and was released on the same year as Joy, also starring Robert De Niro and Zipper, also starring Christopher McDonald.
 * The teaser trailer was attached to Planes: Fire and Resuce, and it was published on Youtube with 104 millions ever.
 * Movie Boss said that "What are you, Mr. Mansley, Another Midnight Run”, which is reference to Another Midnight Run, which stars Christopher McDonald, who plays Kent in this film. At one point, Kent said that he regrets replacing Movie Boss in Another Midnight Run, which it’s a reference to how Christopher McDonald replaced Robert De Niro, who appears in the first Midnight Run.
 * The film has few references of Harry Connick Jr’s films and jazz music, James said that "Dean McCoppin likes jazz music and he is singing it”. Thats because Harry Connick Jr did the voice of Dean McCoppin in this film and The Iron Giant. Also, Movie Boss said that "Dean is best known for his films including Will and Grace, Independence Day, P.S. I Love You and American Idol”.
 * The end credits where Kent Mansley dances is the song Forget You by Cee Lo Green, who also plays Samy in the film.
 * During the Academy Awards, Robert De Niro stated that playing a movie Boss was the best career of my life.
 * As of 2016, this is the first film to be in the box office and it’s the first film to hit the big night.
 * Teaser Trailer was released on July 2014 and gained over 94 million views on YouTube since its release.
 * Originally, Rourke was going to be evil, like in the orignal movie, but it was changed that Helga was the main villain instead. Also, Milo was going to be killed at the end of the film.
 * In the Australian release, some cursing was removed. All other countries include the rating PG.
 * Jack Black was cast as Ryan Burke, following his performance on Kung Fu Panda, the producers wanted him to fill the character and so, they hire Jack Black to have two roles, which the filmmakers stated. The studio cast him following his role in Tropic Thunder and School of Rock. Jack Black liked the idea, so he decide to fill him in.
 * Dwayne Johnson was cast Allias Salmon, following his performance on Fast Five.
 * Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore appear in The Sopranos.
 * Bryan Cranston was accepted to play the role of Sean Burke, following his performance on Malcom in the Middle.
 * Michael Peña was cast as Dhruv, because he felt like he did not look nerdish, but he is deep thinking in order to step the character’s role.
 * Robert De Niro and Jack Black appear in The Fan.
 * Michael Pena, Nick Nolte and Sean Penn appear in Gangster Squad.
 * Jack Black and Kevin Pollak appear in The Big Year.
 * Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller appear in Meet the Parents.
 * During principal photography, these images were sharp, so the entire shot stay a total complexion.
 * At the end of the film, Helga's death was similar to Scar from The Lion King, when the hyenas turned against Scar. It was originally going to show her death when the wolves, who saw the explorers went to atlantis earlier, mauled her. But it was too gory, so the camera shows her shadowy death.