Thunderbirds (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Jonathan Frakes |
| Produced by |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Mark Huffam |
| Screenplay by | William Osborne Michael McCullers |
| Story by |
Peter Hewitt William Osborne |
| Based on |
Thunderbirds by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson |
| Starring |
Brady Corbet Bill Paxton Vanessa Hudgens Anthony Edwards Sophia Myles Ron Cook Ben Kingsley |
| Music by |
Ramin Djawadi Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Brendan Galvin |
| Edited by | Martin Walsh |
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| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $57 million |
| Box office | $28.3 million |
Thunderbirds is a 2004 British-American-French science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1960s television series of the same name, directed by Jonathan Frakes. The film, written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers, was released on 24 July 2004 in the United Kingdom and 30 July 2004 in the United States, with later opening dates in other countries. Whereas the original TV series used a form of puppetry termed "Supermarionation", the film's characters are portrayed by live-action actors.
Thunderbirds received mainly negative reviews and was a box office bomb. The creator of the original series, Gerry Anderson, disliked the film and called it "the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my entire life". However the film's soundtrack includes the song "Thunderbirds Are Go" by pop rock band Busted, which peaked at number one in the UK charts and later won the 2004 UK Record of the Year award.
The Tracy family, led by former astronaut Jeff Tracy, operate International Rescue, a secret organization that aids those in need using the technologically advanced machines called Thunderbirds. The youngest son Alan lives at a boarding school on the mainland dreaming of being a Thunderbird pilot. He and his friend Fermat Hackenbacker, son of the Thunderbirds’ engineer Brains, are picked up by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward and her butler Aloysius Parker. Lady Penelope is an International Rescue agent, travelling to Tracy Island in the South Pacific in her limo FAB 1. The Thunderbirds return from an oil rig fire, but Alan and Fermat play around in Thunderbird 1, discovering a strange compound splattered on the side. Unbeknownst to them, the compound is a tracking beacon being used by the Hood, a psychic criminal mastermind who has a vendetta against Jeff for not saving him in a collapsing diamond mine while his brother Kyrano was rescued.
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