Thunderbirds (2004)

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Year of Production: 2003
Running Times:
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: DTS     Dolby Digital     SDDS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Studio Canal / Tracy Films Ltd / Working Title Films
Executive Producers: Liza Chasin, Debra Hayward
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Mark Huffam
Co-Producer: Jo Burn
Production Manager: Paul Turcotte
Unit Production Manager: Angus More Gordon
2nd Unit Production Manager: Terry Bamber
Production Coordinator: Siobhan Lyons

SCRIPT
Script: Michael McCullers, William Osborne
Story: Peter Hewitt, William Osborne
Characters: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson

DIRECTION
Director: Jonathan Frakes
2nd Unit Director: Shaun O'Dell
1st Assistant Director: Tommy Gormley
2nd Unit 1st Assistant Director: Terry Bamber
2nd Assistant Director: Sarah Purser
2nd Unit 2nd Assistant Director: David Cain
2nd Unit 3rd Assistant Directors: Fraser Fennell-Ball, Jessica Hurles
Crowd Assistant Director: Sue Wood

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Brendan Galvin
Camera Operator: Des Whelan
Steadicam Operator: Rupert Power
1st Assistant A Camera: Carlos De Carvalho
B Camera Operator: Philip Sindall
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Martin Hume
2nd Assistant A Camera: Jennie Paddon
2nd Unit Camera Trainee: Urszula Pontikos
B Camera Focus Puller: John Conroy
Gaffer: John Higgins
Rigging Gaffer: Wayne Leach
Electrician: David Sinfield
Grip: Adrian McCarthy
Stills: Francois Malhotra
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd
Camera Equipment: Panavision (UK) Ltd

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Martin Walsh
1st Assistant Editor: Alastair Grimshaw
Assistant Editors: Alison Carter, Ruth Coulson
Conforming Editor: Keith Lowes
Negative Cutter: Jason Wheeler

MUSIC
Music: Ramin Djawadi, Hans Zimmer
Additional Music: James Michael Dooley
Electronic Arrangements: Mel Wesson
Music Editor: Michael Higham
2nd Music Editor: Sophie Cornet
Synthesiser Programmer: Clay Duncan
Scoring Assistant to James Michael Dooley: Stuart Michael Thomas

SOUND
Sound Designer: Glenn Freemantle
Sound Recordist: Nick Foley
Production Sound Mixer: Peter Lindsay
2nd Unit Production Sound Mixer: Christian Joyce
ADR Mixers: Diana Flores, Mark DeSimone, Ted Swanscott
Foley Recordist: Martin Oswin
Foley Artists: Adrian Medhurst, Phil Heywood
Sound Maintenance: Malcolm Rose

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up / Hair: Jeremy Woodhead
Costume Designer: Marit Allen

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Senior Special Effects Technician: Dave Poole
Special Effects Technician: Gareth Wingrove
Special Effects Crew: Ben Broadbridge
Special Effects Trainee: Dean Ford
Assistant Buyer: Matthew G. Armstrong

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Effects Associates Ltd; Industrial Light and Magic
Visual Effects Supervisors: Mark Nelmes, Justin Martin, Mike McGee
Senior Visual Effects Producer: Fiona Chilton
Visual Effects Producer: Lucy Killick
Wasp / Scorpion Sequence Producer: Rebecca Barbour
Visual Effects Line Producer: Piers Hampton
Visual Effects Coordinators: Charles Howell, Kirsty Morgan
CGI Supervisor: Craig Lyn
Vehicle Designer: Mike Trim
Visual Effects: Dan McRae, Tara Walker
Lead Effects Technical Directors: Ben Schrijvers, Ian Frost, Louis Dunlevy, Mark Hodgkins, Nordin Rahhali
Effects Technical Directors: Adam Jeziak, Christoph Ammann, Jerry Corda-Stanley, Michael Alkan, Michele Fabbro, Mohamed Sobhy, Nic Nicholas
Lead Technical Directors: Andrew Rawling, Ben White, John Roberts-Cox, Paul Beilby, Robert Krupa, Julien Stuart-Smith, Peter Hartwig
Technical Directors: Alan Woods, Andy Howell, Aron Makkai, Cecile Plattner, Chris Mangnall, Chris Thomas, Dan Lavender, Don Mahmood, Gerome Mortelecque, Jake Mengers, Jamie Isles, Jeff Ranasinghe, John Peter Li, Kate Hood, Ken Mitchell-Jones, Matt Estela, Rex Sander, Ross Burgess, Simon Stoney, Thomas Pastor
Digital Effects Artists: Evonne Merlicek, Terence Alvares
Digital Artist: Artemis Oikonomopoulou
Digital Paint Artists: Bruce Nelson, Dylan Wyn Owen, Helen Nesbitt, Joyce Brereton, Kate Cuffin, Mark Oxenham, Melissa Butler Adams, Sergio Ayrosa, Sophia Tufail, Stella Ampatzi, Travis Porter
Lead Modeller: Matt Hughes
Modellers: George Plakides, Jenny Bichsel
Digital Texture Artists: Daren Horley, Diccon Alexander, Virginie Degorgue
Digital Environment Supervisor: Martin MacRae
Digital Environment Artists: Danny Geurtsen, Serdar Simga
Digital Environment Matte Painter: Kevin Jenkins
2D Supervisors: Jonathan Fawkner, Matthew Twyford
Camera Technical Directors: Alex Doyle, Andrew Fineberg, Angela King, Benjamin Loch, Dean Robinson, Giles Bartlett, Henriette Plum, Jonathan Miller, Lianne Forbes, Marc Stevenson
Data Operations: Cal Sawyer, Jeremy Sawyer, Stephen Inch, Edward Xi Chen, Mike Morrison
Scan Manager: Andy Burrow
Render Support: Nick Epstein
Render Wranglers: Afonso Salcedo, James Sims, Patrick Lowry
Technical Animator: Stephen Enticott
Digital Clean-Up: Paola Varvaro
Senior Matte Artist: Ronn Brown
Lead Sequence Compositors: Avtar Bains, Scott Marriott
Digital Compositors: Ben Aickin, Christine Wong, Corrina Wilson, Craig Clarke, Cristina Puente, David Shere, Delphine Buratti, John Peck, John Sharp, Kate Windibank, Kirsty Lawlor, Matt Kasmir, Pat Wong, Steve Parsons, Steve Tizzard, Sule Bryan-Hurst, Susan M. Weeks, Trevor Young
System Support Engineers: Daire Bryne, Jeff Gordon
Model Shop Supervisor: Bill Pearson
Model Unit Photography: Peter Talbot
Senior Model Maker: John Lee
Lead Camera Technical Director: James Sellers
Technical Director Lighter: Gabriel White
Visual Effects and Digital Lab Editorial: Tabitha Dean
Digital Lab Operators: Annabel Wright, Aubrey Woodiwiss, Dan McRae, Dan Perry, James Clarke, Jerome Dewhurst, Jonathan Dredge, Matina Skouteri
Digital Colourist: Adam Glasman
Digital Grade Producer: Claire McGrane
Digital Grading Assistant: Steve Wagendorp
Head of Systems: Christophe Meslin
Film Recording Manager: Maria Stroka
Visual Effects Editor: Derek Burgess
Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Alison Carter
Visual Effects Editorial Assistant: Michelle Camp
Visual Effects Production Assistants: Amy Crowther, Fiona Garland
Computer and Video Project Manager: Adrian Spanna

Framestore CFC
Visual Effects Line Producer: Mei-Ming Casino
Digital Artist: Matthew Riordan
Lead Modeller: Stuart Penn
Effects Technical Director: Ken Mitchel Jones
Data Operations: Lucinda Keeler
Data Operation Assistant: Rebecca Manning
Technical Director: Frederic Cervini
Lighting Technical Directors: David Fish, Mark Osborne, Marnie Pitts
Assistant Visual Effects Editor: Gavin Round
Additional Assistant Visual Effects Editor: Steven Forrester
Visual Effects Avid Operator: P.J. Harling
Visual Effects Editorial Assistant: Richard Poet

Useful Company
Creative Supervisor: Simon Staines
Computer and Video Coordinator: Sara-Jane Valentine
Art Director: John C. Hill

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John Beard
Art Directors: John Frankish, Stephen Morahan, Stuart Rose
Standby Art Director: Joanna Foley
Assistant Art Directors: Iain McFadyen, Paul Inglis
Set Decorator: Joanne Woollard
Prop Manufacturing Supervisor: James Enright
Charge Hand Stand-By Props: Dave Fisher
2nd Unit Standby Props: Rebecca Neville
Head of Department Painter: Gary Gleeson
Painter: Robert J. Dugdale
Art Department Coordinators: Anna Skrein, Katie Gabriel
Storyboard Artist: John Greaves
Concept Artists: Dominic Lavery, Marc Homes
Graphic Designer: Carol Kupisz
Drapes Master: Chris Seddon
Drapesman: Frank Howe

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Angela Wharton
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Sharon Mansfield
Assistant Accountants: Chris Norman, Farnaz Donovan, Gemma Smithers, Sammy Horton, Sylvia Mackintosh
Financial Controller: Andy Hennigan
Assistant To Director: Tanya Phegan
Marine / Diving Coordinator: Ian Creed
Floor Runner: Oliver Kersey
2nd Unit Production Runner: David Zealey
Unit Publicist: Sarah Clark
Special Vehicle Supervisor: Graham Kelly

LOCATIONS
Locations: Australia; Hawaii, USA; London, England, UK; Los Angeles, California, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Portugal; Seychelles
Studio: Pinewood Studios, England, UK

STUNTS
Stunts: Nicola Berwick, Ben Cooke, Rowley Irlam, Adam Kirley, Adam Kirley

CASTING
Casting: Mary Selway
Casting Associate: Linda Halligan
Children Casting: Shaheen Baig
Extras Casting: The Casting Collective Ltd

CAST
Brady Corbet (Alan Tracy)
Bill Paxton (Jeff Tracy)
Sophia Myles (Lady Penelope)
Philip Winchester (Scott Tracy)
Lex Shrapnel (John Tracy)
Dominic Colenso (Virgil Tracy)
Ben Torgeson (Gordon Tracy)
Ron Cook (Parker)
Anthony Edwards (Brains)
Ben Kingsley (The Hood)
Bhasker Patel (Kyrano)
Vanessa Anne Hudgens (Tintin)
Debora Weston (teacher)
Soren Fulton (Fermat)
Lou Hirsch (headmaster)
Alex Barringer (excited kid)
Demetri Goritsas (news anchor)
Genie Francis (Lisa Lowe)
Deobia Oparei (real name: Dhobi Oparei) (Mullion)
Kyle Herbert (know it all kid)
Johannes Zadrozny (Panhead)
Nicola Walker (Panhead's mother)
Harvey Virdi (Onaha)
Rose Keegan (Transom)
Stewart Howson (engineer)
Mark Nelmes (ice cream man)
Julian Spencer (henchman)
Andy Smart (henchman / oil rig worker)

Double For Brains: Andrew Houghton
Stand-In: Paul Hornsby

PLOT SUMMARY

When their space station, Thunderbird 5, is damaged by a meteor shower, the International Rescue team have to travel into space to repair it. But the station has really been sabotaged by international master criminal Aristotle Spode who plans to invade Tracy Island and steal the secrets of International Rescue. But he could be about to meet his match in the shape Alan, Fermat and Tin Tin, the youngest members of the IR crew.

Argentina
Theatrical Distributors: UIP

Germany
Theatrical Distributors: United International Pictures GmbH

Italy
Theatrical Distributors: UIP

Japan
Theatrical Distributors: United International Pictures

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributors: UIP

Russia
Theatrical Distributors: Paradise

Singapore
Theatrical Distributors: UIP

Switzerland
Theatrical Distributors: UIP

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: Atp

Australia
Rating: PG

Germany
Rating: 6

Netherlands
Rating: MG6

Singapore
Rating: PG

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG (for intense action sequences and language)

2004
July
14: Netherlands - theatrical release in Amsterdam
23: UK - theatrical release
24: USA - theatrical premiere
29: Israel, Netherlands - theatrical release
30: USA - theatrical release

August
4: Belgium - theatrical release
4: Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Sweden - theatrical release
7: Japan - theatrical release
11: Philippines - theatrical release
13: Iceland, Spain - theatrical release
25: United Arab Emirates - theatrical release
26: Singapore - theatrical release

September
16: Australia, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Switzerland (German speaking region), Thailand - theatrical release
24: Finland - theatrical release
30: Germany - theatrical release

October
1: Austria - theatrical release
7: Russia - theatrical release
8: Italy - theatrical release
13: Switzerland (French speaking region) - theatrical release
22: Brazil - theatrical release
27: France - theatrical release
28: Argentina - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Myrskylinnut – Finnish title

REMAKE OF
Thunderbirds (1964 - 1966)

KEYWORDS

children, islands, space travel, spaceships, remakes, rescues, television into film

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008