Website Comingsoon sprak met regisseur Kerry Conran en producer Jon Avnet over Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

De film onstond toen Conran bijna 4 jaar in zijn eentje werkte aan een 6 minuten durende computeranimatie. Toen producer Jon Avnet deze beelden onder ogen kreeg was hij meteen geinteresseerd en zorgde hij ervoor dat onder andere Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law en Angelina Jolie een rol wilden spelen in een volledige filmversie.

[eng]What was going through your mind when you first made that six minute short? Did you have some sort of plan?

"When I got out of school, I realized that studios weren't coming at me saying, "Here is $100 million dollars. Do whatever you want." I knew that this was the only way for me. I had taken what I learned from school, principally from the animation side. I wasn't in the animation program, but my school was a breeding farm for a lot of the Disney animators. I knew that with the computer that was just emerging-this was about ten years ago--it was possible of mimicking some of the things that were done routinely in animation, but applying them to live action. I was thinking there was an opportunity here to do something that had a bit of scope, but with the sensibility of an independent filmmaker. That took me four years to test and after that four years, I had generated six minutes, which was essentially about the first ten minutes of the completed movie. I had fully intended to sit down and make the entire film myself, but I felt I had sufficiently enough to show, so I ventured outside of my hovel and joined humanity again."[/eng]

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