Trailer for the animated adventure “Battle for Terra” is finally online and looks great. The CG-animated film at first was simply named “Terra” and didn't have a major distributer, but it has a fabulous voice cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Luke Wilson, David Cross, Justin Long, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Chris Evans, James Garner, Rosanna Arquette and Chad Allen.
Aristomenis Tsirbas, the director, has already won 3 festival awards for “Battle for Terra” at Giffoni Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival and Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at Ottawa International Animation Festival.
In the film, a peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
“Battle for Terra” from director Aristomenis Tsirbas who also wrote the story with Evan Spiliotopoulos is scheduled to hit theaters on May 1st, 2009.
Nice, finally we get humans as the conquering villians. However, since I was linked to here from a sci-fi website, I have to point out a few things.
1) You aren’t going to be running out of air. Submarines aren’t limited by air, but by food.
2) Seizing planets… can be handwaved I guess.
3) You don’t use fighters. You use asteroids or nukes to crush opposition.
4) If you are at the top of the gravity well and they can’t get there, you win. Always.
Proper Sci fi with action and a message may make this one stand out and maybe do some decent business. Inspired design contrast between 2 races.
I’ll look over the ‘It’s a trap’ line and give this one a look.