![]() The film doesn't especially scream anything about the games to me other than the film's use of the Gaia hypothesis, a common theme also used in a number of the games. It just seemed like a no-brainer but for whatever reason, they chose to forge their own path. While each Final Fantasy game is different from the last one in terms of story-telling and setting, one has to wonder why the film-makers decided on an original story instead of adapting the most popular game in the series, Final Fantasy VII, which broke new ground for the franchise when it was released in 1997 - the same year production started on this film. Personally, the film's biggest mistake was ignoring the game series that spawned it. You're never emotionally invested in the story so the film just kinda… happens. And despite the countless man-hours put in to make Dr Aki Ross' hair flow across her face just right, the script strips back the characters humanity by making them sound like characters in a game. The story doesn't make a whole heap of sense while the Phantoms themselves are oddly designed and lack the evil presence that all movie bad guys must possess. It is one of cinema's greatest tragedies that a film so gorgeous and lovingly created as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is so deficient in terms of entertainment. Russia, During Russian Agression What's not to like? Her only other appearance to date was in a promotional video made for The Wachowskis which led to the creation of Final Flight Of The Osiris, a short animation to prelude The Matrix Reloadedthat was incorporated into The Animatrix anthology. She is the first and only non-existent person to ever make that list. Aki Ross appeared in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list in 2001, placing 87th.$45 million was spent on Square's animation studio in Hawaii. Originally pitched at around $70 million, the film ended up costing $137 million. Not surprisingly, the film's budget spiralled out of control.It's estimated that the total time spent on the film by the 200 staff is around 120 years. Square Pictures ended up with 15 terabytes of artwork by the end of production. The film contains 141'964 frames, each one taking 90 minutes to produce. ![]() The total production time for the film was four years - by the time the film was finished, they had to redo earlier scenes because technology had overtaken them.This financial disaster resulted in the closure of studio Square Picture and plans to feature lead character Aki Ross in other media were shelved. Despite a positive reception from critics, global earnings of just $85 were way below the film's eventual production costs and the film bombed as a result. The film's vocal talents include Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, James Woods and Steve Buscemi. Despite the film's title, the movie has an original story about the efforts of two scientists to rid the world of an alien menace while trying to prevent a military leader from initiating an all-out war. The film was designed from the outset to be the world's first photo-realistic animated movie, using some of the most advanced processors available and taking a team of 200 staff nearly four years to produce. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is an animated sci-fi action film released in 2001 and is directed by the creator of the Final Fantasy series of video games, Hironobu Sakaguchi.
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