The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction action film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut.
It is based on the 1968 novel "The Iron Man" by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as "The Iron Giant") and was scripted by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird.
The film stars the voices of Vin Diesel (voicing the titular character), Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney.
Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a gigantic metallic robot who fell from outer space.
With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.
The film's development began in 1994 as a musical with the involvement of The Who's Pete Townshend, though the project took root once Bird signed on as director and hired McCanlies to write the screenplay in 1996.
The film was animated using traditional animation, with computer-generated imagery used to animate the titular character and other effects.
The understaffed crew of the film completed it with half of the time and budget of other animated features.
Michael Kamen composed the film's score, which was performed by the Czech Philharmonic.
"The Iron Giant" premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on July 31, 1999 and was released worldwide on August 6.
Upon release, the film significantly under-performed at the box office, grossing $31.3 million worldwide against a production budget of $48 million, which was blamed on Warner Bros.' unusually poor marketing campaign and skepticism towards animated film production following the failure of "Quest for Camelot" in the preceding year.
Despite this, the film received widespread critical acclaim with praise directed at the story, animation, characters, the portrayal of the title character and the voice performances of Aniston, Connick Jr., Diesel, Mahoney, Marienthal and McDonald.
The film was nominated for several awards, winning nine Annie Awards out of 15 nominations.
Through home video releases and television syndication, the film gathered a cult following and is now widely regarded as a modern animated classic.
In 2015, an extended, remastered version of the film was re-released theatrically, which saw a home video release the following year.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One is a comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom.
It is the first story in the larger "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series.
The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist.
The characters and plot elements borrow from works of writers such as Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume
III: Century is the third volume of" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively," Century" was published in three distinct 72- page squarebound comics.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk- dieselpunk superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
It was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
It was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery( in his final live- action film role to date), Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng and Richard Roxburgh.
As with the comic book source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century.
It features an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period who act as Victorian Era superheroes.
It draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux and Mark Twain, albeit all adapted for the film.
The film grossed over$ 175 million worldwide at the box office, rental revenue of$ 48.6 million, and DVD sales as of 2003 at$ 36.4 million.
The Martian War
The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G.
Wells is a 2006 science fiction novel by American writer Kevin J. Anderson, published under his pseudonym Gabriel Mesta.
It is a retelling of H.G. Wells'" The War of the Worlds" similar to Anderson's past work.
It recounts the Martian invasion from a variety of viewpoints, and has ties to Wells' other work.
In" War of the Worlds", Wells himself is the main character who witnesses the Martian attack alongside his fiancée Jane, Thomas Huxley, and Percival Lowell.
The British government brings them together with Dr. Moreau and Hawley Griffin, who help develop a strain of cholera to be used against the Martians.
Wells travels to the Moon to free the Selenites, who have been enslaved by the Martians, who join forces to end the Martian menace once and for all.
The premise is similar to the earlier" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II" as both involve a group of literary figures being brought together by a secret agency of the British government to fight the Martians.
Both books end the invasion by using a biological weapon, and Griffin and Moreau are involved in both.
" The Martian War" uses the same first name given to the Invisible Man by the creators of the comic book" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. II"( in the original book, the Invisible Man had no first name.
The comic book author Alan Moore gave him the first name' Hawley' as a reference to Hawley Crippen).
Anderson had previously written the novelization of the" League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
It was the last volume of the series to be published by DC Comics.
Although the third book to be published, it was not intended to be the third volume in the series.
Moore has stated that it was intended to be" a sort of ingenious sourcebook", and not a regular volume.
" Black Dossier" was released on November 14, 2007.
List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen characters
This is a collection of the characters from" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", a comic book series created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, and its spin- off" Nemo".
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (soundtrack)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the soundtrack from the 2003 film" The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", released by Varèse Sarabande on August 1, 2003.
The music was composed by Trevor Jones and Joseph Shabalala, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra( conducted by Geoffrey Alexander).
The Ladysmith Black Mambazo choral group performed the songs" Kenya- Wait For Me" and" Son of Africa".
The soundtrack was not released in stores in the United States, and was at first released only for iTunes.
After this did not generate satisfactory sales, it was released by the Varèse Sarabande label for purchase online.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo trilogy is a volume in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively, "Nemo" was published in three distinct 72-page squarebound comics.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comics)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O' Neill, publication of which began in 1999.
The series spans several volumes.

Question: Are both The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) and The Iron Giant from the same country?
Answer: yes