Kaiju Rhapsody

Kaiju Rhapsody is a 2020 American animated science fantasy film written and directed by Luís Pedro, it is the first installment in the Kaiju Rhapsody saga and stars . The film follows the adventures of a normal pre teen who ends up getting into a spiral of madness after becoming the Successor to the Galaxy's Greatest Hero
==SYNOPSES==
Ludwig is a depressed teen dissatisfied with life, who plays drums in a garage punk rock band with other young people with no prospects in life. One day, he and his bandmates see a ship falling from the sky, a ship containing a mysterious girl with pointy ears, who set out on a journey to defeat seven tyrannical leaders and free the planets they conquered, but to do so, she would have to join the a mysterious guild of magical mercenaries. Knowing that this was a unique opportunity to achieve a life of adventure, the band and another old classmate of the boys set out to help the young warrior lady on her mission.
==CHARACTERS==
=== The Kaiju Order ===
An ancient order of freelance mercenary warriors with magical powers, who travel the galaxy exploring different planets, and fighting against authoritarian governments, corrupt megacorporations, interdimensional monsters and criminals too powerful for the Federation to handle.
==== The Rhapsodies/Team Rhapsody: ====
Formerly a mediocre punk rock garage band, they joined the Kaiju Order after meeting Hilda
*Rikko Von Ludwig (voiced by Brandon Perea): The movie's protagonist, the rebellious, cheerful and laid-back Rhapsodies' drummer who is pretty open and friendly to most people, who uses his free time to train in various martial arts and further improve his body. All he wants is to fulfill his sick mother's last request so that she can die in peace, and for this he will embark on an intergalactic adventure together with a band of misfits.
**Thunderbolt: Ludwig's Emblem, which gives him electrokinetic powers 
*Hilda (voiced by Alison Brie): An introverted elf girl with an enigmatic and mysterious aura, who embarked on this adventure together with Ludwig to avenge the death of her parents and rescue her sister who has been imprisoned for 4 years. She is a second-in-command figure on the team, and has an opposite personality to Ludwig, while Ludwig is pessimistic and against authority, Hilda is more optimistic and tends to keep herself and her friends within the law.
**Spectral: Hilda's Emblem, which gives her phantom powers 
*Joe (voiced by Josh Hutcherson): The band's bassist/vocalist, a catoron (a race of sapient humanoid felines) who has been friends with Rikko and the other band members since elementary school. The most mature and sensible of the four, considered the voice of reason. He is also the one on The Team that uses his head. As the intelligent one, he come in when the team needs deep analysis, clever tactics, or there's highly technical work to be done, he can teleport and has a super healing factor.
**Swordmastery: Joe's Emblem, which gives him powers to create, shape and transform into blades 
*Tuzz (voiced by: Andrew Caldwell): The band's guitarrist, a merfolk (a race of sapient humanoid fishes), who is also the grumpiest and most disinterested of the group, who is almost always bored, but is also the most fearful and cowardly of the party, but even so, his friends manage to squeeze the courage out of Tuzz and convince him to leave fear aside.
**Mindwave: Tuzz' Emblem, which gives him the power to fire psychic blasts 
*Mack (voiced by Harvey Guillén): The Rhapsodies' biggest fan and the only other human in the party besides Rikko. He is a very nice and friendly guy, but he has a very short temper. As he is the biggest and strongest in physical strength of the group, he is in charge of using the heavy equipment, and he can use his mechanical arm as a weapon, as it transforms into things like cannons, blades, hammers, chainsaws, missile launchers and more.
**Volcanic: Mack's Emblem, which gives him powers to manipulate and transform into lava/magma
*Emba (voiced by Ayo Edebiri): Former high school classmate of the boys and the crew's Engineer, A genius sharp-tongued snow grung who tends to be extreme and unpredictable, she is often shown going all out in fights, sometimes even laughing maniacally. She is the gadget girl and the one who takes care of the ship in general, since the ship is hers. She agreed to go on this adventure because she owed Joe a favor.
**Blizzard: Amber's Emblem, which gives her cryokinetic powers
==== Others: ====
* Jack (voiced by Mads Mikkelsen): A cynical and introspective alcoholic, who lacks any kind of experience or aptitude for being a mentor figure and dealing with teens. He used to be part of the Golden Council, part of the 12 most powerful members of the Kaiju Order. After insisting a lot, Hilda managed to convince Jack to become her team's mentor.
* Kreuza (voiced by Jennifer Coolidge): One of Jack's oldest friends, the bartender at the secret magical bar that serves as the Kaiju Order's base of operations
=== Earth ===
* Tânia (voiced by Quintessa Swindell): Joe's girlfriend
* Minerva Von Ludwig (voiced by Sofia Vergara): Rikko's mom
=== Planet Melek ===
==== Royal Family: ====
* Princess Kira (voiced by Bella Podaras): Hilda's younger sister, who has been held captive by Chroma and working as her maid for a whole month, until being able to escape and be welcomed by a secret tribe of goblin-like critters called giwblins. Kira is a very humble and caring girl, always having a lot of empathy with others around her.
* King Lambnus (voiced by: John DiMaggio): The King of Avalomiun, the third largest kingdom on the planet Melek
* Queen Shinbillia (voiced by: Kathleen Barr): The Queen of Avalomiun, the third largest kingdom on the planet Melek
==== Giwblins' secret village: ====
* Griff (voiced by Daveed Diggs): An eccentric giwbling, Kira's faithful companion and the village's royal retainer.
* Vamballa (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): The great leader of the Secret Giwblin Village
* Chakka'Mobb (voiced by Steve Buscemi): The enigmatic spiritual leader of the Secret Giwbling Village
===The Ultimate Seven:===
The seven children of the Supreme Leader of the ancient world-conquering empire known as The Blackrons, which is sealed in another dimension. Four years ago, the Seven children left this dimension and each one took part in a world of their own.
*Gataanga (voiced by Fred Tatasciore): The Seventh son of the Ultimates, the feudal lord of the Nongraff region, on the planet Westeam, who oppresses and abuses the region's population, charging insane taxes that commoners are unable to pay. He is known as "The Implacable", because of his absurd strength and no one can stop him.
**Fiber Domain: Gataanga's Emblem, which gives him the ability to manipulate his own muscle fibers
*Fordraak (voiced by Kevin Durand): The Sixth son of the Ultimates, the Emperor of the powerful nation of Fenborjd, on the icy planet of Johrtundra, an infamous maniac, known throughout the galaxy for his gladiatorial arenas where warriors die in horrible ways every day for the entertainment and distraction of his people
**Glassion: Fordraak's Emblem, which gives him the ability to manipulate glass
*Eboneck (voiced by Luke Evans): The Fifth son of the Ultimates, known as "The Supreme Lord of All Seas", a sadistic and megalomaniac pirate captain, who goes from island to island, from village to village, from nation to nation, plundering their riches, capturing and enslaving their inhabitants, he has caused the collapse of so many nations around the planet Tropys that even the Infinite Federation is afraid.
**Black Ray: Eboneck's Emblem, which gives him the ability to manipulate and transform into laser beams
*Datsuko (voiced by Lucy Liu): The Fourth daugher of the Ultimates, a cold and calculating leader of the most feared criminal clan of ninjas on the planet Wakyo, the infamous Scythe Clan, which has absolute dominance over the criminal underworld of Wakyo. Datsuko, despite having a sense of honor like any good samurai, she is also unscrupulous and will do anything to have total control of the entire criminal underworld in the galaxy.
**Iron Blast: Datsuko's Emblem, which gives her magnetic manipulation powers
*Chromma (voiced by Ron Perlman): The Third son of the Ultimates, the formidable fascist dictator of the entire eastern zone of the planet Melek, who rules the region with an iron fist, industrializing and polluting the region that used to be huge green forests full of life, and also hunting and eliminating all citizens who dare oppose him, becoming one of the most feared intergalactic warlords, he is a great collector of relics and has a bizarre obsession with teenage girls.
**Techno-Dome: Chromma's Emblem, which gives him the ability to manipulate any kind of technology
*Bylong: The Second son of the Ultimates, A mute madman who ordered his minions to build an entire temple on the planet Jurassius, so he could isolate himself from everything and everyone in the Galaxy (he killed them all shortly thereafter). His idea was to spend the rest of his days locked inside the temple until someday someone crazy enough came to end his suffering.
**Colossal: Bylong's Emblem, which gives him the ability to transform himself into a gigantic 60 meter tall reptilian monster
*Agonnius (voiced by David Kaye): The First son of the Ultimates, the most powerful and cruel of the Seven, a being that burns and overflows with pure evil energy, unlike his brothers, who are fixed on a specific planet causing chaos on that single planet, Agonnius goes from planet to planet planet, spreading chaos and destruction, annihilating civilizations and cultures, erasing billions of lives from existence every day, this megalomaniac genocidal represents a planetary threat that not even the most formidable warriors in the galaxy have the courage to oppose his dominance.
**Supermassive Death Hole: Agonnius's Emblem, which gives him the ability to manipulate anti-matter energy
==== Gataanga's goons: ====
* Flintch (voiced by Tom Kenny): Gataanga's main tax collector, a skeletal, fragile and despicable figure, who brings out the worst in people. He compensates for his physical weakness with highly destructive gadgets.
* Gearson: Flintch's bodyguard, a mute swordsman robot
==APPEARENCES==
===Locations:===
*Earth
**Neo Orleans
***The StarKiller Nightclub
***Rikko's house/workshop
***Joe's appartment
***Emba's house
*Westeam (western/steampunk world)
**The Kaiju Tavern
**Gear-Town
*** Gear-Town's train station
**Locketeer village
**Gataanga's pallace
*Johrthundra (nordic/icy world)
**Fenborjd
***Fenborjd-City
***Fordraak's castle
***Fordraak's gladitorial arena
*Tropys (tropical world)
** Tankey Island
***Juniper's village
* Wakyo (japanese cyberpunk world) 
**unnamed village
**Phokyo City
***Kensuke's bar
***The Scythe Clan's tower
*Melek (high-fantasy medieval world)
**Enchanted Florest
**Avalomiun 
***Giwblin Secret Village
*** Avalomiun City
****The Royal Castle
*Jurassius (pre-historic jungle world)
**Bylong's temple
===Races:=== 
*Humans
*Catorons (humanoid cats)
*Merfolks (humanoid fish)
*Feyleks (elves)
*Grungs (humanoid frogs)
*Martians
*Corneans (underground cyclops)
* Turons (humanoid dinosaurs)
*Giwblins (gnomes)
*Pluuvians (Admirals)
**Pluuvian + Saurius (reptillians) hybrid
**Pluuvian + Aporons (humanoid apes) hybrid
**Pluuvian + Roock (humanoid roosters) hybrid
**Pluuvian + Wolforon (humanoid wolfs) hybrid
**Pluuvian + Orkóids (orcs) hybrid
**Pluuvian + Human hybrid
**Pluuvian + Unknown race hybrid
*Deimos (Elites/Fire elves)
*Zotaxians (Doctors/Cyborg elves)
*Quarlins (Priests)
*Korkhtolaks (Sentinels)
* Megalekokos (Tanks)
*Bugoids (beetle model)
*Bugoids (ant model)
*Bugoids (grasshopper model)
*Bugoids (cricket model)
*Bugoids (praying mantis model)
*Bugoids (fly model)
*Bugoids (mosquito model)
*Bugoids (wasp model)
*Leophorodorks (Pilots)
* Grontingants (Troopers)
==PRODUCTION ==
===DEVELOPMENT===
After the great success of Coopep Bizarre Adventures in 2017, several job opportunities arose for director Luís Pedro, when he moved from Brazil to the USA, he realized that the natural evolution of a coming-of-age film with some action elements and science fiction, it was an ambitious project that would jump head first into fantastic elements, and so he decided it was time to put into practice the dream project he had in mind since he was 15 years old, an animated science fantasy series that he described like "Scott Pilgrim meets Flash Gordon" in pitch meetings. He presented the idea to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, but everyone rejected the project, thinking it would be too risky, until he presented it to Netflix, who embraced the concept.
The project was then acquired by Guilhermo Del Toro's production company, Double Dare You Productions, and soon, 5 seasons of 8 episodes each were ordered. Del Toro then proposed to Pedro that if the five seasons of the series were adapted into five films, they would increase the budget from 5.2 million to 13.6 million, which Pedro accepted, then combined the scripts for the eight episodes into a single feature film script. 
===WRITTING===
Before we had the version that became the final version of the film, there were 3 drafts of the script, with the first of these being written during the production of Coopep Bizarre Adventures in June 2016. In this version of the story, Joe, Tuzz and Mack did not exist, and in their place there were two characters called Bander and Vrum, and also, Griff would be part of the main group. In this version, Rikko would be part of a race of clones manufactured en masse by the Blackrons to do their bureaucratic work, who would see Hilda captured in the building where she worked and decide to help her, starting the story. The main villain of the story would be Bowdorff, the prince of the Blackrons, there would be a revelation that the DNA used to create Rikko would be Bowdorff's, making them brothers.
It was possible to notice that this version of the script would address themes about the life of an average worker, with the Blackrons in this version of the script being an allegory for capitalism itself. It is also possible to notice that the influence of Dungeons and Dragons was much greater in this version of the story. This is also the only draft of the plot where planet Earth is never mentioned.
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