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‘Sky Captain’ Director Insists His Groundbreaking Dieselpunk Debut Wasn’t a Flop: ‘Somebody Probably Did Lose a Lot of Money, but It Wasn’t Because of This Film’ (EXCLUSIVE)
'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' director Kerry Conran looks back at his dieselpunk debut film and the impact of its failure on his career.
The Flint, Michigan native was not the first filmmaker to employ a “virtual backlot” to tell his stories — notwithstanding Lucas’ use of digital pre-visualization and blue screen technology to make the “Star Wars” prequels, Kazuaki Kiriya’s “Casshern” preceded him, and Robert Rodriguez’ “Sin City” followed shortly afterward. But the cohesiveness and detail of the anachronistic 1939 world he created helped set the stage for everything from the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” which used The Volume’s computer-generated backdrops, to James Cameron’s immersive “Avatar” films. To commemorate the 20 th anniversary of “Sky Captain,” Conran jumped on the phone for a lengthy conversation about the history, process and legacy of making the film, whose cost he reveals was not as high as was reported at the time.
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