SilverWook said:

I had the chance to exchange emails with an ex employee of the studio that made Titan A.E. (The one that sold me the drawings and model sheets.) It was shut down by Fox after the film's failure, leaving a lot of animators who had relocated to Arizona up the creek. The movie had been in development for quite some time as Planet Ice before Bluth came on board. I also learned there were plot elements toned down or eliminated to avoid a PG 13 rating.

The plot thickens.

Love all the background info that goes into bringing a film to the audience. With other art forms an artists thinks of something and just does it. With a movie an artist has to assemble a whole army of like minded other artists who they have to trust to all pull together towards that release date. Al the miss-steps, blind alleys, rejected ideas, casting problems, set backs etc can all add to a movies DNA. Coppola took it a little too literaly on 'Apocalypse Now' declaring they weren't filming Vietnam, it was Vietnam! Then again watching the restored original 'road-show' style cut of A.N. is probably the greatest experience I've ever had in the Cinema... and that includes SW btw

Now, not only do I want a Blu-Ray of 'Titan A.E.' but I want a feature length documentary about the production!

^ "We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane" - Francis Ford Coppola 1979 George Lucas 1999