Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie

Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie is a 2012 animated adventure comedy-drama film based on the television series The Story of Quincy and the manga series Quincy by Ryotaro Sekizawa. It is directed, co-written and co-produced by series creator Garrett Fredrickson, and was co-produced by Sekizawa along with Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo. It features the series' regular voice cast with Bryan Cranston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tim Robbins, Kate McKinnon and Greg Davies voicing new characters.
The film first began development as a TV movie in 2007 for TNT, intended to come out after the fourth season of the show and serve as the season finale of the show. The script was later acquired by and put into development at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists in 2008 with the intent for a theatrical release in 2011, however, the film was shelved because of MGM's financial troubles in 2010. In order to compensate, a new season of the series was produced and aired on TNT from late 2011 to early 2012, with the film being partly rewritten for consistency with the new season.
MGM later sold the distribution rights to 20th Century Fox in June 2011 and the film was released in the United States on September 14, 2012 to positive reviews from critics. The film also was a success at the box office, grossing $247.3 million against a budget of $30 million.
== Plot ==
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== Cast ==
* Steve Blum as Quincy McShane
* Cherami Leigh as Princess Sophie
* Jason Marsden as Captain Saffron
* Cam Clarke as Louis Roffe
* Mark Hamill as Chief Aarons
* Bryan Cranston as Valen Grimholt
* Philip Seymour Hoffman as Barrett Welch
* John Cleese as Zach Darwin
* Jennifer Love Hewitt as Ellis Whitfield
* Rachel Leigh Cook as Megan Knowles
* Rob Paulsen as Klay
* David L. Lander as Vincent
* Tom Kenny as Jack
* Frank Welker as Raymond
* Tim Robbins as Donald Holland
* Kate McKinnon as Clarissa Chasey
* Brina Palencia as Lizzie Harmon
* Brittney Karbowski as Linda Harmon
* Crispin Freeman as Stephen Bishop
* Greg Davies as Elbert Riley
* Toni Collette as Queen Amelia
* Martin Short as Baron von Frederick
* Omid Djalilli as Sophie's Butler
* Aaron Paul as Roy Xander
=== Additional voices ===
* John Cygan
* Glenn Wrage
* Rob Rackstraw
* Sherry Lynn
* John DiMaggio
* Mela Lee
* David Matranga
* Ian Sinclair
* Vic Mignogna
* Danny Mann
* Greg Ayres
* Jess Harnell
* Bryce Papenbrook
* Tiffany Grant
* Steve Lively
* Dee Bradley Baker
* Luci Christian
* Caitlin Glass
* Ray Porter
* Colleen Clinkenbeard
* Monica Rial
* Sonny Strait
* Kent Williams
* Charlie Adler
* Corey Burton
* Tia Ballard
* John DeMita
* Steve Kramer
== Production ==
=== Development ===
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=== Casting ===
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=== Animation ===
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== Soundtrack ==
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== Release ==
Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie was slated for wide release on May 27, 2011 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists. However, on June 17, 2010, MGM announced that the film would be delayed indefinitely due to ongoing financial difficulties at the studio. Garrett Fredrickson, meanwhile, issued a statement regarding the film's delay and that "in the meantime, we have decided to take this opportunity to do various other revisions to Last Stand before we consider it finished."
On March 16, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported the following: "New (MGM) chief executives Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are seeking to sell Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie, Red Dawn and the horror film The Cabin in the Woods, the last three pictures produced under a previous regime, as they try to reshape the 87-year-old company." In May 2011, it was reported that 20th Century Fox was making a deal with MGM to acquire the distribution rights to Last Stand, with a projected 2012 release date. On June 15, 2011, 20th Century Fox announced that they had acquired the distribution rights to the film and set a release date of September 14, 2012. During this part of the production, the film's script was rewritten in order to accomodate the events from the fifth season of the show with new scenes also being added, extending the film's runtime to 99 minutes.
The film was first screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 27, 2012, over two month's before the film opened in theaters.
=== Home media ===
Last Stand: A Story of Quincy was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 15, 2013. This release came in four editions, a standard DVD release, a two-disc "Special Edition" release, a standalone Blu-ray, and a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack. The special edition DVD and Blu-ray contain several featurettes, a documentary on the making of the film, deleted scenes, the film's trailers, among various other features.
== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie grossed $247.3 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million.
=== Critical response ===
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 84%, based on 267 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Last Stand: A Story of Quincy Movie contains the earnest drama, clever wit and fidelity to Ryotaro Sekizawa's manga that made the show so successful, and the film's stunning animation and writing make this a brilliant conclusion to the series." On Metacritic, the film achieved an average score of 78 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, calling the film "simply wonderful. Heartwarming and comedic as well as subversive." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, calling it "A charming animated adventure." Travers praised the voice cast and the animation, writing that, "it was some of the finest traditional animation I had seen in a long while."
British newspapers The Guardian and The Times both gave the film four out of five stars. The Times' James Bone said that it "boasts the same mature yet comedic tone and heartwarming storytelling that have earned the television series a following that ranges from not just fans of the manga, but even teenagers and PhDs". The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw stated that it "gives you all you'd want in a Quincy production" and that he thought, "Fredrickson would've made Walt Disney himself proud with his efforts here. It's simply remarkable".
== Accolades ==
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== Future ==
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