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<div>==MAIN TITLES== <br />
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NO PRISONERS PRODUCTIONS and DIGITAL ANVIL Present <br />
<br />
In Association with ORIGIN SYSTEMS, INC. and The CAROUSEL PICTURE COMPANY <br />
<br />
A CHRIS ROBERTS Film <br />
<br />
FREDDIE PRINZE JR. <br />
<br />
SAFFRON BURROWS <br />
<br />
MATTHEW LILLARD <br />
<br />
TCHÉKY KARYO <br />
<br />
"WING COMMANDER" <br />
<br />
JÜRGEN PROCHNOW <br />
<br />
DAVID SUCHET <br />
<br />
DAVID WARNER <br />
<br />
GINNY HOLDER <br />
<br />
HUGH QUARSHIE <br />
<br />
Casting by SUZANNE CROWLEYGILLY POOLE <br />
<br />
Costume Design by MAGALI GUIDASCI <br />
<br />
Production Designer PETER LAMONT <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Supervisor CHRIS BROWN <br />
<br />
Edited by PETER DAVIES <br />
<br />
Director of Photography THIERRY ARBOGAST <br />
<br />
Themes by DAVID ARNOLD Score by KEVIN KINER <br />
<br />
Co-Producer DONNA BURKONS <br />
<br />
Co-Executive Producer NEIL YOUNG <br />
<br />
Executive Producers JOSEPH N. COHEN ROMAIN SCHROEDER JEAN-MARTIAL LEFRANC <br />
<br />
Based on a Story by and Characters Created by CHRIS ROBERTS <br />
<br />
Produced by TODD MOYER <br />
<br />
Screen Story and Screenplay by KEVIN DRONEY <br />
<br />
Directed by CHRIS ROBERTS <br />
<br />
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Line Producer Tom Reeve <br />
<br />
Special Visual Effects by Digital Anvil <br />
<br />
Special Creature Effects by Animated Extras <br />
<br />
Supervising Art Director Charles Lee <br />
<br />
Co-Visual Effects Supervisor Thomas Dadras <br />
<br />
===CAST===<br />
{|<br />
|Blair<br />
|Freddie Prinze, Jr.<br />
|-<br />
|Deveraux<br />
|Saffron Burrows<br />
|-<br />
|Maniac<br />
|Matthew Lillard<br />
|-<br />
|Paladin<br />
|Tchéky Karyo<br />
|-<br />
|Gerald<br />
|Jürgen Prochnow<br />
|-<br />
|Sansky<br />
|David Suchet<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|Tolwyn<br />
|David Warner<br />
|-<br />
|Forbes<br />
|Ginny Holder<br />
|-<br />
|Obutu<br />
|Hugh Quarshie<br />
|-<br />
|Wilson<br />
|Ken Bones<br />
|-<br />
|Bellegarde<br />
|John McGlynn<br />
|-<br />
|Hunter<br />
|Richard Dillane<br />
|-<br />
|Polanski<br />
|Mark Powley<br />
|-<br />
|Knight<br />
|David Fahm<br />
|-<br />
|Flight Boss<br />
|Simon McCorkindale<br />
|-<br />
|Helmsman<br />
|Fraser James<br />
|-<br />
|Radar Man Falk<br />
|Craig Kelly<br />
|-<br />
|Peterson<br />
|Kieron Phipps<br />
|-<br />
|Pegasus Radar Man<br />
|Jamie Treacher<br />
|-<br />
|Security Officer<br />
|Cyril Nri<br />
|-<br />
|Concordia Radar Man<br />
|Jari K. Kinnunen<br />
|-<br />
|Rodriguez<br />
|Raph Taylor<br />
|-<br />
|Com Officer<br />
|Paul Courtenay Hyu<br />
|-<br />
|Kilrathi Admiral<br />
|Mark Jones<br />
|-<br />
|Kilrathi Captain<br />
|Graham Riddell<br />
|-<br />
|Medic<br />
|Christopher P. Kibbey<br />
|-<br />
|Voice of Merlin<br />
|?<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Production Manager Meinir Stoutt <br />
<br />
First Assistant Director Kieron Phipps <br />
<br />
Second Assistant Director Oscar Beuselinck <br />
<br />
Art Directors Mark Harris Simon Lamont Alan Tomkins Ken Court James Hambidge <br />
<br />
Stand-By Art Director Simon Bowles <br />
<br />
Storyboard Artists Denis Rich John Greaves Alex Hill <br />
<br />
Art Department Coordinator Katrina Duce <br />
<br />
Art Department Assistants Victoria Knopp Jill Robertson <br />
<br />
Concept Illustrators Ron Cobb Robert Cowper Dominic Lavery <br />
<br />
Scenic Artist James Gemmill <br />
<br />
Graphic Artists Carol Kupisz Christophe Diederich-Ets. Fox <br />
<br />
Draftsman Steve Bream <br />
<br />
2nd Second Assistant Director Claude Ludovicy <br />
<br />
Third Assistant Directors Ralph Eisenmann Véronique Souques <br />
<br />
Camera & Steadicam Operator Alessandro Bolognesi <br />
<br />
Focus Puller Maurizio Cremisimi <br />
<br />
2nd Camera Operator Roger Simonsz <br />
<br />
2nd Camera Focus Puller Carlo Thiel <br />
<br />
Clapper Loaders Sophie Bosquet Wolfgang Wesemann Michel Miltgen <br />
<br />
3-Axes Remote Head Technicians Service Vision Julio Barbod Anne Pfahler <br />
<br />
Motion Control <br />
<br />
MagicMove Jan Bernotat Stefan Galleithner <br />
<br />
Time-Slice Sequence <br />
<br />
Director of Photography Tim MacMillan <br />
<br />
Camera Operator Andrew Kemp <br />
<br />
Camera Loader Rupert Prince <br />
<br />
Camera Effects by Time-Slice Films (UK) Ltd. <br />
<br />
Digital Film Effects by Cinesite (Europe) Limited <br />
<br />
Inferno Artist Simon Huhtala <br />
<br />
Post Producer Simon Gosling <br />
<br />
Sound Recordist John Rodda <br />
<br />
Boom Operator Seppe v. Groeningen <br />
<br />
Sound Trainee Olivier Galle <br />
<br />
Second Unit Director C.B. <br />
<br />
Second Unit Director of Photography Roger Simonsz <br />
<br />
Second Unit First Assistant Director Harry Jarvis <br />
<br />
Second Unit Sound Recordist Carlo Thoss <br />
<br />
Second Unit Boom Operator Christoph Neef <br />
<br />
Set Decorator Michael Ford <br />
<br />
Additional Set Decorator Richard Roberts <br />
<br />
Property Master Barry Wilkinson <br />
<br />
Supervising Set Dresser Jamie Wilkinson <br />
<br />
Charge Hand Stand-By Props Simon Wilkinson Manu Demoulling <br />
<br />
Production Buyer Ron Quelch <br />
<br />
Property Buyer Fiona Nottingham <br />
<br />
Storeman Derek Creedon <br />
<br />
Charge Hand Dresser Bernard Hearn <br />
<br />
Assistant Stand-By Props Gary Ixer <br />
<br />
Practical Electrician Paul Biwer <br />
<br />
Props Electrician Assistant Tiffany Rodenfels <br />
<br />
Swing Gang Frédérik Hardy Joël Iscla Olivier Printz Lucilio Goncalves Guillaume De Esteban <br />
<br />
Supervising Model Maker Mark Woollard <br />
<br />
Senior Model Makers John Weller Paul Knight Bill Pearson <br />
<br />
Model Makers Terry Whitehouse Lindsay Harris Glen Haddock Viola Colditz David Allum Jim Barr Carl Wilson Tracey Curtis <br />
<br />
Additional Model Maker Christine Glanville <br />
<br />
Assistant Modelers Christi-A. Valentine Fiona Farquharson Ty Senior Elena Fuller Sophia Chowdhury <br />
<br />
Prop Modelers / Dressers Claire Grainger James Enright <br />
<br />
Script Supervisor Sue Field <br />
<br />
Video Assist Graham Johnston <br />
<br />
Gaffers Mick Durlacher Claude Hirsch <br />
<br />
Best Boy Erik Wobma <br />
<br />
Electricians Marius Speller Arnout Glas José Pinto De Jesus Maarten Van Der Pluym Joris Hetsen <br />
<br />
Trainee Electrician Kemdon Mohun <br />
<br />
Additional Electricians Piers Van Vuuren Erik Van Woude Valérie Blom Ido Stuit Laurens Hessels Dave Van Honschooten Jaap Tijsze Sébastien Cossa Ewout Boonstra <br />
<br />
Key Grip Jean-François Roqueplo <br />
<br />
2nd Camera Grip Thomas Sidopoulos <br />
<br />
Assistant Grip Kurt Reybroeck <br />
<br />
Additional Grip Raphaël Jourdan <br />
<br />
Grip Trainee Laurent 'Charlie' Wallerang <br />
<br />
Wardrobe Supervisor Tiny Nicholls <br />
<br />
Wardrobe Mistress Janet Lucas <br />
<br />
Wardrobe Assistants Renata Stec-Ross Jimmy Smith David Croucher <br />
<br />
Wardrobe Runner Amber Smit <br />
<br />
Assistant Costume Designer Nicole Young <br />
<br />
Costume Illustrator Mariano Diaz <br />
<br />
Costume Fabricators Sara Creed Kay Coveney Ivo Coveney Arabella Dean Lou Elsey Abigale Houghton Frances Hill Helen Ingham Rachel Impee Sharon McCormack Julie Nethercoat Pipa Roberts Sara Walker <br />
<br />
Foams Adrian Getley <br />
<br />
Hats Karen Shannon <br />
<br />
Flight Deck Crew Prototype Marrie Kileen <br />
<br />
Dyer & Pain Effect Stephen Goll <br />
<br />
Dyer Nicola Kileen <br />
<br />
Make-Up / Hair Supervisor Pat Hay <br />
<br />
Hair Artist Stephen Rose <br />
<br />
Hair Stylist Vivian Nowak <br />
<br />
Make-Up Assistant Ghislaine Soisson <br />
<br />
Additional Make-Up Artists Cathy Folmer Katja Reinert Marie-Claire Junker <br />
<br />
Location and Studio Manager Pascal Charlier <br />
<br />
Location Manager Assistant Frédo Roeser <br />
<br />
Unit Manager Laurent Dumas <br />
<br />
Production Coordinators Rozenn Le Pape Nigel Marchant Christopher P. Kibbey <br />
<br />
Special Effects Supervisor Harry Wiessenhaan <br />
<br />
Special Effects Coordinator Edward Wiessenhaan <br />
<br />
Stunts Coordinator Rick Wiessenhaan <br />
<br />
Special Effects Senior Technician Robert Wiessenhaan <br />
<br />
Special Effects Technicians Sasha De Haas Robert Seepers Jan Cunderlic <br />
<br />
Stunts Patrick Rappard Roland Godijn Nicolas De Pruyssenaere Willem De Beukelaer Martin Lader Diane Wiersma Annemiek Boonstra Roy Wever Randy Wener Richard Van Drempt Yuma Li Sustar Silvo Michel Struik <br />
<br />
Gimble Special Effects, UK Neil Corbould Kevin Herd Robert Malos Ken Herd <br />
<br />
Animatronics Supervisor Nik Williams <br />
<br />
Animatronics Technicians Susan Howard Tina Foster Sarah Fooks Ben Palmer Liz Murray Annette Rydin Rob Hamlin Steve Wright Terry Jones <br />
<br />
Animatronics Artists Mark Jones Graham Riddell <br />
<br />
Construction Coordinator Peter G. Williams <br />
<br />
Construction Manager, Luxembourg Bruno Zenatello <br />
<br />
Head Carpenter Robert Eames <br />
<br />
Head Stagehand, Shipping Graham Blinco <br />
<br />
Wood Machinists Jim Townshend Karl George <br />
<br />
Construction Buyer Luc Paquet <br />
<br />
Charge-Hand Carpenters Alan Brooks Gary Stopps Stephen Ede <br />
<br />
Stage Hands David Coyne Michael Dowling Franco Puleo Darren Holland Nikos Melas <br />
<br />
Carpenter Supervisor Michael Smith <br />
<br />
Stand-By Carpenter Wayne Day <br />
<br />
Carpenters Mark Townshend Paddy Patterson Bernard Ferandis Eric Tillard Thierry Gratien Thomas Whyte Raphaël Thiry Frinn Lorenz Michel Streiff Roland Coyne Derek Dawson John New Michael Trainer William Lee Gilbert Dominic Ackland-Snow John-Francis Maurice Leslie Thomas Jones Martin-John Day Paul James Woods Tony Snook Marc Crelo Guy Ladu Peter Beasley David Celli <br />
<br />
Assistant Carpenter Michel Seys <br />
<br />
Metal Construction Manuel Pinto de Jesus Mohamed Harzallah Guillaume Konsbruck Jean-Louis Cano Michael Howlett Nigel Gray <br />
<br />
Metal Welder Lewis Herd <br />
<br />
Construction Runner Tom Hildgen <br />
<br />
Stage Hand Runner Giancarlo Fetti <br />
<br />
Rigging Supervisor Steven McCarthy <br />
<br />
Rigger Tony Richards <br />
<br />
Additional Rigger Clive Goble <br />
<br />
Stand-By Rigger Jeffrey Khan <br />
<br />
Motion Control Riggers Christian Maler Henrik Scheib <br />
<br />
Head Painter David Wescott Charge Hand Painters Paul Wescott Brian Hartnoll <br />
<br />
Painters Nicolas Spadavecchia Amanda Tschumi Clément Minighetti Alain Boncour Eddy Panel Manuel Alves Pereira Pascal Dorschner Sandro Pickenhagen Philippe Vaucher <br />
<br />
Assistant Painters Anthony Gouldsbrough Davis Whyte William Gillbourne Dan Urbin Colm Woods <br />
<br />
Additional Painter Dominique Tortorelli <br />
<br />
Head Plasterer David Coldham <br />
<br />
Plasterers Dean Coldham Martin Moran Ian Murphy Paul Taggart Paul Tappin Mickey Spence John Loyd <br />
<br />
Assistant Plasterers Marcel Barros Mourad Gettich <br />
<br />
Production Accountants Raj Malde Laurence Parker <br />
<br />
Assistant Accountant Luc Schroeder <br />
<br />
Accounts Assistant Lucrezia Cuciniello <br />
<br />
Assistants to Todd Moyer Christopher P. Kibbey Michael Abbott <br />
<br />
Assistants to Chris Roberts Madeleine Fox Christopher Reeves <br />
<br />
Production Assistants Michael 'Indy' Whiting Kate Brunsdown <br />
<br />
Production Trainees Bénédicte Humbel Carinne Passerat <br />
<br />
Stand-Ins Edward Rice Radica Jovicic Christophe Crompin Gérôme Witz <br />
<br />
Casting Assistant Matthew Michnovetz <br />
<br />
Casting, Luxembourg Lynx Productions Larue Hall David Claikens <br />
<br />
Acting Coach Harold Guskin <br />
<br />
Stills Photographer Steve Etienne Braun <br />
<br />
Unit Publicist Henry Eshelman Baker/Winokur/Ryder Public Relations <br />
<br />
Transport Coordinator Kevan Willis <br />
<br />
Transport Captain Gary Sharp <br />
<br />
Drivers Jamshid Fadakar Fahrudin Kurtagic Laurence Rexter - Baker Michael Hogh Esteban Von Freeden Michael Roberts <br />
<br />
Unit Driver, UK Tim Hope-Frost <br />
<br />
Additional Driver Graham Oldham <br />
<br />
Prop Truck Driver Frédérick Thull <br />
<br />
Catering Supervisors Maisy Guérin Teresa Finlay <br />
<br />
Caterers Sylvie Tagliero Karen Cooper <br />
<br />
Assistant Caterers Sylvia Blossom Jane Hudson Carmen Matallana Ljilja Medakovic <br />
<br />
Additional Assistant Caterer Claudine Muller-Frank <br />
<br />
Studio Maintenance Paul De Bourcy <br />
<br />
Assistant Studio Maintenance Carlo Nowak Henri Weiler <br />
<br />
Studio Security (Carousel) Ali Braun Robi Chiesa <br />
<br />
Studio Security (Wecker) James West <br />
<br />
Paramedics Georges Reuter Jeff Hengen <br />
<br />
Post-Production Supervisor Sterling Belefant <br />
<br />
Supervising Sound Editors Peter Baldock Glenn Freemantle <br />
<br />
Re-Recording Mixers John Hayward Graham Hartstone Richard Pryke Brendan Nicholson <br />
<br />
Sound Editors Mark Heslop <br />
<br />
Assistant Sound Editor Susan French <br />
<br />
First Assistant Editor Wayne Smith <br />
<br />
Assistant Editors Amin Jaber Elizabeth Sherry <br />
<br />
Apprentice Editor Jean-Luc Simon <br />
<br />
Sound by reelsound <br />
<br />
Supervising Dialog/ADR Editor Gillian Dodders <br />
<br />
Foley Editors Tom Sayers Miriam Ludbrook <br />
<br />
Foley Artists John Fewell Julie Ankerson Stan Fiferman Diane Greaves <br />
<br />
ADR Editor Gerard McCann <br />
<br />
Assistant ADR Editor Mark Finlay <br />
<br />
Additional ADR Recording Martin Galway <br />
<br />
Music Supervisor Barklie K. Griggs <br />
<br />
Music Coordinator Chris Kinsman <br />
<br />
Orchestrated & Conducted by Nicholas Dodd <br />
<br />
Recorded & Mixed by Geoff Foster Mark Evans <br />
<br />
Music Editor Dina Eaton <br />
<br />
Assistant to Mr. Kiner Lindsay Brooks <br />
<br />
Orchestra Contractor Isobel Griffiths <br />
<br />
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Unit <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer Erik Strauss <br />
<br />
Compositing Supervisor Dennis W. Davis <br />
<br />
Sequence Supervisors Steve Cummings Mark Lambert Michael McNeill Christopher Olivia Eric Tablada <br />
<br />
Digital Artists Rhett Bennatt Christopher Bonnstetter Rod 'Slugger's Boy' Brunet Colin Campbell Mitch Deoudes Shine Fitzner John Ford, Jr. Quentin Frost Mark 'Marky' Goldsworthy Benjamin Lishka Dean McCall Curtis A. Neal Scott 'Scooter' Peterson Pauline Saab John Paul Sommer Hector M. Tantoco, Jr. Sarma Vanguri <br />
<br />
Assistant Effects Artist Jason Schugardt <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Coordinator Ashley Galaway <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Editor Jennifer J. Wollan <br />
<br />
Assistant Effects Editor Tim Bicio <br />
<br />
Production Assistant Jason Huang <br />
<br />
Graphic Designers Mike Cahill Brad Doan John Summer Alex Toader Buck Wall Robert Wall <br />
<br />
Additional R&D Effects House of Pain <br />
<br />
Interns Valerie Fecteau Clint Pyle Jose Velazco <br />
<br />
Digital Anvil Head of Development Services Sean Kelley <br />
<br />
Technical Support Staff Rick McNeeley <br />
<br />
Digital Anvil Facility Producer Frederick G. Alba <br />
<br />
Digital Anvil Supervisor of Facility Operations Eric Peterson <br />
<br />
Playback Supervisor Harry Jarvis <br />
<br />
Playback Assistant Max Dewar <br />
<br />
Additional Visual Effects by Digiscope <br />
<br />
Executive Producers Mary Stuart Welch Thomas Thiill <br />
<br />
Digital Effects Supervisor Dion Hatch <br />
<br />
Digital Effects Producer Laurel Lyn Schulman <br />
<br />
Supervising Digital Artist Grady Cofer <br />
<br />
Digital Artists Todd Mesher Brennan Prevatt Naomi Sato Rob Blue Lawrence Carroll Marty Taylor Jerry Hall Wenden Baldwin Bruce Harris Minky Billups <br />
<br />
Digital Imaging Paul Howarth Tommy Hooper Derek Osaki Michelle Reiner Geraurd Paschal <br />
<br />
Production Coordinator Alex DeShazer <br />
<br />
Production Assistant Philip Sisk <br />
<br />
Additional Visual Effects by Pacific Title / Mirage Studios <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Ariel Velasco Shaw <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Supervisor David Altenau <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer David Taritero <br />
<br />
Executive Producer Mark Brown <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Coordinator Jeremy Smith <br />
<br />
Compositing Supervisor Jon Tanimoto <br />
<br />
CG Sequence Supervisor Brian Steiner <br />
<br />
CG Artist Cory Bedwell Seth Lippman Rob Ostir Dane Picard Chris Waegner Kevin Smith Guy Williams <br />
<br />
2D Artist Tom Lamb Christopher Lance Olivier Sarda Jeff Wells <br />
<br />
Digital Matte Painter Tim Clark Rachel Kelley <br />
<br />
Lead Film Assembly Greg DeCamp <br />
<br />
Imaging Supervisor Tom Gorey <br />
<br />
Additional Visual Effects by The Post Group's Digital Film Group <br />
<br />
Executive Producer Michael J. Morreale <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer Barbara Genicoff <br />
<br />
Digital Compositing Supervisors Jeff Heusser Pat Clancey <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Artist Steve Scott <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Compositor Chris Holmes <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Compositor Mark Intravartolo <br />
<br />
Effects Matte Artist Chris Clausing <br />
<br />
Digital Systems Administrator John Stevens <br />
<br />
Data Manager Eric Withee <br />
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Studio Facilities Rene Kieffer in association with The Carousel Picture Company <br />
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Insurance Média Assurances SA <br />
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Legal Services Richard Thompson Bloom Hergott Cook Diemer & Klein James Robinson <br />
<br />
Bond Company International Film Guarantors <br />
<br />
Console Graphics Produced by Cryo Interactive Entertainment <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Created Exclusively with Alias|Wavefront's MayaTM <br />
<br />
Shake Compositing Software Provided by Nothing Real <br />
<br />
Steadicam Equipment by Technovision, Italy <br />
<br />
Grip Equipment by Cinetec, Belgium <br />
<br />
Lighting Equipment by Flash Light Company, Luxembourg <br />
<br />
Additional Laboratory Meuter Titra, Belgium <br />
<br />
Video & Sound Transfers CLT-UFA, Luxembourg <br />
<br />
Editing Equipment Edit Hire, UK <br />
<br />
Costumes Supplied by Angels & Bermans, UK <br />
<br />
Travel Arranged by I.T.G., Luxembourg Joyce LaPon, New Act Travel, USA <br />
<br />
Songs <br />
<br />
"Cross the Line" Written by Chris Andrews, Ashley Bates & Michael "Mau" Giffts Performed by Cuba Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
<br />
"Foxy's Denn" Written by Chris Andrews & Ashley Bates Performed by Cuba Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
<br />
"Trio from 'Cosi Fan Tutte'" Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Arranged by Lee Ashley Courtesy of OGM/Ole George Music<br />
<br />
"The Sleeper Car" Written by Rob Garza & Eric Hilton Performed by Thievery Corporation Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
<br />
The Producers wish to thank: <br />
<br />
Edwige Rolin, Aline Braun Banque Internationale A Luxembourg American Extras for their technical support U.S. Army, Bitburg, Germany Berliner Bank Foundry Film Partners II, L.L.C The Government and Citizens of The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg <br />
<br />
Additional thanks to: <br />
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Nokia Display Products, Finland Carlsberg Beer, Norway Propaganda Props, Switzerland Johnnie Walker Whisky/ United Distillers, UK The Entertainment Network, UK Storm Watches, UK WAT PR, UK Drager Ltd., UK Macromedia, USA Rob Immobilier, Luxembourg Hospilux Medical Equipment, Luxembourg SMA Medical Equipment, Luxembourg Lamesch, Luxembourg Lux Recyclage, Luxembourg Luxlait, Luxembourg LuxAir, Luxembourg Hertz Rent-a-Car Hatherop Castle School, UK AMD Computers 73 Market Street, Venice, CA <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Created in Austin, City of Ideas <br />
<br />
Camera Equipment by Arri MEDIA<br />
<br />
Processing by Technicolor Laboratories <br />
<br />
Color and Prints by Deluxe Laboratories <br />
<br />
Printed on Eastman Kodak Film <br />
<br />
Dolby In Selected Theaters <br />
<br />
Filmed on location in The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (Europe) under the Audiovisual Certificate Program <br />
<br />
The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events orfirms is purely coincidental. <br />
<br />
TM and (c) Copyright MCMXCVIII by Wing Commander Productions All Rights Reserved <br />
<br />
Wing Commander Productions is the author of this motion picture for purposes of copyright and other laws and any unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition of this motion picture could result in criminal prosecution as well as civil liability. <br />
<br />
Released by Twentieth Century Fox<br />
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<div>==MAIN TITLES== <br />
<br />
NO PRISONERS PRODUCTIONS and DIGITAL ANVIL Present <br />
<br />
In Association with ORIGIN SYSTEMS, INC. and The CAROUSEL PICTURE COMPANY <br />
<br />
A CHRIS ROBERTS Film <br />
<br />
FREDDIE PRINZE JR. <br />
<br />
SAFFRON BURROWS <br />
<br />
MATTHEW LILLARD <br />
<br />
TCHÉKY KARYO <br />
<br />
"WING COMMANDER" <br />
<br />
JÜRGEN PROCHNOW <br />
<br />
DAVID SUCHET <br />
<br />
DAVID WARNER <br />
<br />
GINNY HOLDER <br />
<br />
HUGH QUARSHIE <br />
<br />
Casting by SUZANNE CROWLEYGILLY POOLE <br />
<br />
Costume Design by MAGALI GUIDASCI <br />
<br />
Production Designer PETER LAMONT <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Supervisor CHRIS BROWN <br />
<br />
Edited by PETER DAVIES <br />
<br />
Director of Photography THIERRY ARBOGAST <br />
<br />
Themes by DAVID ARNOLD Score by KEVIN KINER <br />
<br />
Co-Producer DONNA BURKONS <br />
<br />
Co-Executive Producer NEIL YOUNG <br />
<br />
Executive Producers JOSEPH N. COHEN ROMAIN SCHROEDER JEAN-MARTIAL LEFRANC <br />
<br />
Based on a Story by and Characters Created by CHRIS ROBERTS <br />
<br />
Produced by TODD MOYER <br />
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Screen Story and Screenplay by KEVIN DRONEY <br />
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Directed by CHRIS ROBERTS <br />
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Line Producer Tom Reeve <br />
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Special Visual Effects by Digital Anvil <br />
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Special Creature Effects by Animated Extras <br />
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Supervising Art Director Charles Lee <br />
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Co-Visual Effects Supervisor Thomas Dadras <br />
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===CAST===<br />
{|<br />
|Blair<br />
|Freddie Prinze, Jr.<br />
|-<br />
|Deveraux<br />
|Saffron Burrows<br />
|-<br />
|Maniac<br />
|Matthew Lillard<br />
|-<br />
|Paladin<br />
|Tchéky Karyo<br />
|-<br />
|Gerald<br />
|Jürgen Prochnow<br />
|-<br />
|Sansky<br />
|David Suchet<br />
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|-<br />
|Tolwyn<br />
|David Warner<br />
|-<br />
|Forbes<br />
|Ginny Holder<br />
|-<br />
|Obutu<br />
|Hugh Quarshie<br />
|-<br />
|Wilson<br />
|Ken Bones<br />
|-<br />
|Bellegarde<br />
|John McGlynn<br />
|-<br />
|Hunter<br />
|Richard Dillane<br />
|-<br />
|Polanski<br />
|Mark Powley<br />
|-<br />
|Knight<br />
|David Fahm<br />
|-<br />
|Flight Boss<br />
|Simon McCorkindale<br />
|-<br />
|Helmsman<br />
|Fraser James<br />
|-<br />
|Radar Man Falk<br />
|Craig Kelly<br />
|-<br />
|Peterson<br />
|Kieron Phipps<br />
|-<br />
|Pegasus Radar Man<br />
|Jamie Treacher<br />
|-<br />
|Security Officer<br />
|Cyril Nri<br />
|-<br />
|Concordia Radar Man<br />
|Jari K. Kinnunen<br />
|-<br />
|Rodriguez<br />
|Raph Taylor<br />
|-<br />
|Com Officer<br />
|Paul Courtenay Hyu<br />
|-<br />
|Kilrathi Admiral<br />
|Mark Jones<br />
|-<br />
|Kilrathi Captain<br />
|Graham Riddell<br />
|-<br />
|Medic<br />
|Christopher P. Kibbey<br />
|-<br />
|Voice of Merlin<br />
|?<br />
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Production Manager Meinir Stoutt <br />
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First Assistant Director Kieron Phipps <br />
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Second Assistant Director Oscar Beuselinck <br />
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Art Directors Mark Harris Simon Lamont Alan Tomkins Ken Court James Hambidge <br />
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Stand-By Art Director Simon Bowles <br />
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Storyboard Artists Denis Rich John Greaves Alex Hill <br />
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Art Department Coordinator Katrina Duce <br />
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Art Department Assistants Victoria Knopp Jill Robertson <br />
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Concept Illustrators Ron Cobb Robert Cowper Dominic Lavery <br />
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Scenic Artist James Gemmill <br />
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Graphic Artists Carol Kupisz Christophe Diederich-Ets. Fox <br />
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Draftsman Steve Bream <br />
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2nd Second Assistant Director Claude Ludovicy <br />
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Third Assistant Directors Ralph Eisenmann Véronique Souques <br />
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Camera & Steadicam Operator Alessandro Bolognesi <br />
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Focus Puller Maurizio Cremisimi <br />
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2nd Camera Operator Roger Simonsz <br />
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2nd Camera Focus Puller Carlo Thiel <br />
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Clapper Loaders Sophie Bosquet Wolfgang Wesemann Michel Miltgen <br />
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3-Axes Remote Head Technicians Service Vision Julio Barbod Anne Pfahler <br />
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Motion Control <br />
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MagicMove Jan Bernotat Stefan Galleithner <br />
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Time-Slice Sequence <br />
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Director of Photography Tim MacMillan <br />
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Camera Operator Andrew Kemp <br />
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Camera Loader Rupert Prince <br />
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Camera Effects by Time-Slice Films (UK) Ltd. <br />
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Digital Film Effects by Cinesite (Europe) Limited <br />
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Inferno Artist Simon Huhtala <br />
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Post Producer Simon Gosling <br />
<br />
Sound Recordist John Rodda <br />
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Boom Operator Seppe v. Groeningen <br />
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Sound Trainee Olivier Galle <br />
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Second Unit Director C.B. <br />
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Second Unit Director of Photography Roger Simonsz <br />
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Second Unit First Assistant Director Harry Jarvis <br />
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Second Unit Sound Recordist Carlo Thoss <br />
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Second Unit Boom Operator Christoph Neef <br />
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Set Decorator Michael Ford <br />
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Additional Set Decorator Richard Roberts <br />
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Property Master Barry Wilkinson <br />
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Supervising Set Dresser Jamie Wilkinson <br />
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Charge Hand Stand-By Props Simon Wilkinson Manu Demoulling <br />
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Production Buyer Ron Quelch <br />
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Property Buyer Fiona Nottingham <br />
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Storeman Derek Creedon <br />
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Charge Hand Dresser Bernard Hearn <br />
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Assistant Stand-By Props Gary Ixer <br />
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Practical Electrician Paul Biwer <br />
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Props Electrician Assistant Tiffany Rodenfels <br />
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Swing Gang Frédérik Hardy Joël Iscla Olivier Printz Lucilio Goncalves Guillaume De Esteban <br />
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Supervising Model Maker Mark Woollard <br />
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Senior Model Makers John Weller Paul Knight Bill Pearson <br />
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Model Makers Terry Whitehouse Lindsay Harris Glen Haddock Viola Colditz David Allum Jim Barr Carl Wilson Tracey Curtis <br />
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Additional Model Maker Christine Glanville <br />
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Assistant Modelers Christi-A. Valentine Fiona Farquharson Ty Senior Elena Fuller Sophia Chowdhury <br />
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Prop Modelers / Dressers Claire Grainger James Enright <br />
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Script Supervisor Sue Field <br />
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Video Assist Graham Johnston <br />
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Gaffers Mick Durlacher Claude Hirsch <br />
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Best Boy Erik Wobma <br />
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Electricians Marius Speller Arnout Glas José Pinto De Jesus Maarten Van Der Pluym Joris Hetsen <br />
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Trainee Electrician Kemdon Mohun <br />
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Additional Electricians Piers Van Vuuren Erik Van Woude Valérie Blom Ido Stuit Laurens Hessels Dave Van Honschooten Jaap Tijsze Sébastien Cossa Ewout Boonstra <br />
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Key Grip Jean-François Roqueplo <br />
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2nd Camera Grip Thomas Sidopoulos <br />
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Assistant Grip Kurt Reybroeck <br />
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Additional Grip Raphaël Jourdan <br />
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Grip Trainee Laurent 'Charlie' Wallerang <br />
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Wardrobe Supervisor Tiny Nicholls <br />
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Wardrobe Mistress Janet Lucas <br />
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Wardrobe Assistants Renata Stec-Ross Jimmy Smith David Croucher <br />
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Wardrobe Runner Amber Smit <br />
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Assistant Costume Designer Nicole Young <br />
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Costume Illustrator Mariano Diaz <br />
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Costume Fabricators Sara Creed Kay Coveney Ivo Coveney Arabella Dean Lou Elsey Abigale Houghton Frances Hill Helen Ingham Rachel Impee Sharon McCormack Julie Nethercoat Pipa Roberts Sara Walker <br />
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Foams Adrian Getley <br />
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Hats Karen Shannon <br />
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Flight Deck Crew Prototype Marrie Kileen <br />
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Dyer & Pain Effect Stephen Goll <br />
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Dyer Nicola Kileen <br />
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Make-Up / Hair Supervisor Pat Hay <br />
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Hair Artist Stephen Rose <br />
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Hair Stylist Vivian Nowak <br />
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Make-Up Assistant Ghislaine Soisson <br />
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Additional Make-Up Artists Cathy Folmer Katja Reinert Marie-Claire Junker <br />
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Location and Studio Manager Pascal Charlier <br />
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Location Manager Assistant Frédo Roeser <br />
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Unit Manager Laurent Dumas <br />
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Production Coordinators Rozenn Le Pape Nigel Marchant Christopher P. Kibbey <br />
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Special Effects Supervisor Harry Wiessenhaan <br />
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Special Effects Coordinator Edward Wiessenhaan <br />
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Stunts Coordinator Rick Wiessenhaan <br />
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Special Effects Senior Technician Robert Wiessenhaan <br />
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Special Effects Technicians Sasha De Haas Robert Seepers Jan Cunderlic <br />
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Stunts Patrick Rappard Roland Godijn Nicolas De Pruyssenaere Willem De Beukelaer Martin Lader Diane Wiersma Annemiek Boonstra Roy Wever Randy Wener Richard Van Drempt Yuma Li Sustar Silvo Michel Struik <br />
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Gimble Special Effects, UK Neil Corbould Kevin Herd Robert Malos Ken Herd <br />
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Animatronics Supervisor Nik Williams <br />
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Animatronics Technicians Susan Howard Tina Foster Sarah Fooks Ben Palmer Liz Murray Annette Rydin Rob Hamlin Steve Wright Terry Jones <br />
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Animatronics Artists Mark Jones Graham Riddell <br />
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Construction Coordinator Peter G. Williams <br />
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Construction Manager, Luxembourg Bruno Zenatello <br />
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Head Carpenter Robert Eames <br />
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Head Stagehand, Shipping Graham Blinco <br />
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Wood Machinists Jim Townshend Karl George <br />
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Construction Buyer Luc Paquet <br />
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Charge-Hand Carpenters Alan Brooks Gary Stopps Stephen Ede <br />
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Stage Hands David Coyne Michael Dowling Franco Puleo Darren Holland Nikos Melas <br />
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Carpenter Supervisor Michael Smith <br />
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Stand-By Carpenter Wayne Day <br />
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Carpenters Mark Townshend Paddy Patterson Bernard Ferandis Eric Tillard Thierry Gratien Thomas Whyte Raphaël Thiry Frinn Lorenz Michel Streiff Roland Coyne Derek Dawson John New Michael Trainer William Lee Gilbert Dominic Ackland-Snow John-Francis Maurice Leslie Thomas Jones Martin-John Day Paul James Woods Tony Snook Marc Crelo Guy Ladu Peter Beasley David Celli <br />
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Assistant Carpenter Michel Seys <br />
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Metal Construction Manuel Pinto de Jesus Mohamed Harzallah Guillaume Konsbruck Jean-Louis Cano Michael Howlett Nigel Gray <br />
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Metal Welder Lewis Herd <br />
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Construction Runner Tom Hildgen <br />
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Stage Hand Runner Giancarlo Fetti <br />
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Rigging Supervisor Steven McCarthy <br />
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Rigger Tony Richards <br />
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Additional Rigger Clive Goble <br />
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Stand-By Rigger Jeffrey Khan <br />
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Motion Control Riggers Christian Maler Henrik Scheib <br />
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Head Painter David Wescott Charge Hand Painters Paul Wescott Brian Hartnoll <br />
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Painters Nicolas Spadavecchia Amanda Tschumi Clément Minighetti Alain Boncour Eddy Panel Manuel Alves Pereira Pascal Dorschner Sandro Pickenhagen Philippe Vaucher <br />
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Assistant Painters Anthony Gouldsbrough Davis Whyte William Gillbourne Dan Urbin Colm Woods <br />
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Additional Painter Dominique Tortorelli <br />
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Head Plasterer David Coldham <br />
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Plasterers Dean Coldham Martin Moran Ian Murphy Paul Taggart Paul Tappin Mickey Spence John Loyd <br />
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Assistant Plasterers Marcel Barros Mourad Gettich <br />
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Production Accountants Raj Malde Laurence Parker <br />
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Assistant Accountant Luc Schroeder <br />
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Accounts Assistant Lucrezia Cuciniello <br />
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Assistants to Todd Moyer Christopher P. Kibbey Michael Abbott <br />
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Assistants to Chris Roberts Madeleine Fox Christopher Reeves <br />
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Production Assistants Michael 'Indy' Whiting Kate Brunsdown <br />
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Production Trainees Bénédicte Humbel Carinne Passerat <br />
<br />
Stand-Ins Edward Rice Radica Jovicic Christophe Crompin Gérôme Witz <br />
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Casting Assistant Matthew Michnovetz <br />
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Casting, Luxembourg Lynx Productions Larue Hall David Claikens <br />
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Acting Coach Harold Guskin <br />
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Stills Photographer Steve Etienne Braun <br />
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Unit Publicist Henry Eshelman Baker/Winokur/Ryder Public Relations <br />
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Transport Coordinator Kevan Willis <br />
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Transport Captain Gary Sharp <br />
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Drivers Jamshid Fadakar Fahrudin Kurtagic Laurence Rexter - Baker Michael Hogh Esteban Von Freeden Michael Roberts <br />
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Unit Driver, UK Tim Hope-Frost <br />
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Additional Driver Graham Oldham <br />
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Prop Truck Driver Frédérick Thull <br />
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Catering Supervisors Maisy Guérin Teresa Finlay <br />
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Caterers Sylvie Tagliero Karen Cooper <br />
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Assistant Caterers Sylvia Blossom Jane Hudson Carmen Matallana Ljilja Medakovic <br />
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Additional Assistant Caterer Claudine Muller-Frank <br />
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Studio Maintenance Paul De Bourcy <br />
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Assistant Studio Maintenance Carlo Nowak Henri Weiler <br />
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Studio Security (Carousel) Ali Braun Robi Chiesa <br />
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Studio Security (Wecker) James West <br />
<br />
Paramedics Georges Reuter Jeff Hengen <br />
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Post-Production Supervisor Sterling Belefant <br />
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Supervising Sound Editors Peter Baldock Glenn Freemantle <br />
<br />
Re-Recording Mixers John Hayward Graham Hartstone Richard Pryke Brendan Nicholson <br />
<br />
Sound Editors Mark Heslop <br />
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Assistant Sound Editor Susan French <br />
<br />
First Assistant Editor Wayne Smith <br />
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Assistant Editors Amin Jaber Elizabeth Sherry <br />
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Apprentice Editor Jean-Luc Simon <br />
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Sound by reelsound <br />
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Supervising Dialog/ADR Editor Gillian Dodders <br />
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Foley Editors Tom Sayers Miriam Ludbrook <br />
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Foley Artists John Fewell Julie Ankerson Stan Fiferman Diane Greaves <br />
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ADR Editor Gerard McCann <br />
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Assistant ADR Editor Mark Finlay <br />
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Additional ADR Recording Martin Galway <br />
<br />
Music Supervisor Barklie K. Griggs <br />
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Music Coordinator Chris Kinsman <br />
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Orchestrated & Conducted by Nicholas Dodd <br />
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Recorded & Mixed by Geoff Foster Mark Evans <br />
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Music Editor Dina Eaton <br />
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Assistant to Mr. Kiner Lindsay Brooks <br />
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Orchestra Contractor Isobel Griffiths <br />
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Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London <br />
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Visual Effects Unit <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer Erik Strauss <br />
<br />
Compositing Supervisor Dennis W. Davis <br />
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Sequence Supervisors Steve Cummings Mark Lambert Michael McNeill Christopher Olivia Eric Tablada <br />
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Digital Artists Rhett Bennatt Christopher Bonnstetter Rod 'Slugger's Boy' Brunet Colin Campbell Mitch Deoudes Shine Fitzner John Ford, Jr. Quentin Frost Mark 'Marky' Goldsworthy Benjamin Lishka Dean McCall Curtis A. Neal Scott 'Scooter' Peterson Pauline Saab John Paul Sommer Hector M. Tantoco, Jr. Sarma Vanguri <br />
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Assistant Effects Artist Jason Schugardt <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Coordinator Ashley Galaway <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Editor Jennifer J. Wollan <br />
<br />
Assistant Effects Editor Tim Bicio <br />
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Production Assistant Jason Huang <br />
<br />
Graphic Designers Mike Cahill Brad Doan John Summer Alex Toader Buck Wall Robert Wall <br />
<br />
Additional R&D Effects House of Pain <br />
<br />
Interns Valerie Fecteau Clint Pyle Jose Velazco <br />
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Digital Anvil Head of Development Services Sean Kelley <br />
<br />
Technical Support Staff Rick McNeeley <br />
<br />
Digital Anvil Facility Producer Frederick G. Alba <br />
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Digital Anvil Supervisor of Facility Operations Eric Peterson <br />
<br />
Playback Supervisor Harry Jarvis <br />
<br />
Playback Assistant Max Dewar <br />
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Additional Visual Effects by Digiscope <br />
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Executive Producers Mary Stuart Welch Thomas Thiill <br />
<br />
Digital Effects Supervisor Dion Hatch <br />
<br />
Digital Effects Producer Laurel Lyn Schulman <br />
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Supervising Digital Artist Grady Cofer <br />
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Digital Artists Todd Mesher Brennan Prevatt Naomi Sato Rob Blue Lawrence Carroll Marty Taylor Jerry Hall Wenden Baldwin Bruce Harris Minky Billups <br />
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Digital Imaging Paul Howarth Tommy Hooper Derek Osaki Michelle Reiner Geraurd Paschal <br />
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Production Coordinator Alex DeShazer <br />
<br />
Production Assistant Philip Sisk <br />
<br />
Additional Visual Effects by Pacific Title / Mirage Studios <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Ariel Velasco Shaw <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Supervisor David Altenau <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer David Taritero <br />
<br />
Executive Producer Mark Brown <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Coordinator Jeremy Smith <br />
<br />
Compositing Supervisor Jon Tanimoto <br />
<br />
CG Sequence Supervisor Brian Steiner <br />
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CG Artist Cory Bedwell Seth Lippman Rob Ostir Dane Picard Chris Waegner Kevin Smith Guy Williams <br />
<br />
2D Artist Tom Lamb Christopher Lance Olivier Sarda Jeff Wells <br />
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Digital Matte Painter Tim Clark Rachel Kelley <br />
<br />
Lead Film Assembly Greg DeCamp <br />
<br />
Imaging Supervisor Tom Gorey <br />
<br />
Additional Visual Effects by The Post Group's Digital Film Group <br />
<br />
Executive Producer Michael J. Morreale <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Producer Barbara Genicoff <br />
<br />
Digital Compositing Supervisors Jeff Heusser Pat Clancey <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Artist Steve Scott <br />
<br />
Senior Visual Effects Compositor Chris Holmes <br />
<br />
Visual Effects Compositor Mark Intravartolo <br />
<br />
Effects Matte Artist Chris Clausing <br />
<br />
Digital Systems Administrator John Stevens <br />
<br />
Data Manager Eric Withee <br />
<br />
Studio Facilities Rene Kieffer in association with The Carousel Picture Company <br />
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Insurance Média Assurances SA <br />
<br />
Legal Services Richard Thompson Bloom Hergott Cook Diemer & Klein James Robinson <br />
<br />
Bond Company International Film Guarantors <br />
<br />
Console Graphics Produced by Cryo Interactive Entertainment <br />
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Visual Effects Created Exclusively with Alias|Wavefront's MayaTM <br />
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Shake Compositing Software Provided by Nothing Real <br />
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Steadicam Equipment by Technovision, Italy <br />
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Grip Equipment by Cinetec, Belgium <br />
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Lighting Equipment by Flash Light Company, Luxembourg <br />
<br />
Additional Laboratory Meuter Titra, Belgium <br />
<br />
Video & Sound Transfers CLT-UFA, Luxembourg <br />
<br />
Editing Equipment Edit Hire, UK <br />
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Costumes Supplied by Angels & Bermans, UK <br />
<br />
Travel Arranged by I.T.G., Luxembourg Joyce LaPon, New Act Travel, USA <br />
<br />
Songs <br />
<br />
"Cross the Line" Written by Chris Andrews, Ashley Bates & Michael "Mau" Giffts Performed by Cuba Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
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"Foxy's Denn" Written by Chris Andrews & Ashley Bates Performed by Cuba Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
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"The Sleeper Car" Written by Rob Garza & Eric Hilton Performed by Thievery Corporation Courtesy of 4AD By arrangement with Warner Special Products <br />
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The Producers wish to thank: <br />
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Edwige Rolin, Aline Braun Banque Internationale A Luxembourg American Extras for their technical support U.S. Army, Bitburg, Germany Berliner Bank Foundry Film Partners II, L.L.C The Government and Citizens of The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg <br />
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Additional thanks to: <br />
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Nokia Display Products, Finland Carlsberg Beer, Norway Propaganda Props, Switzerland Johnnie Walker Whisky/ United Distillers, UK The Entertainment Network, UK Storm Watches, UK WAT PR, UK Drager Ltd., UK Macromedia, USA Rob Immobilier, Luxembourg Hospilux Medical Equipment, Luxembourg SMA Medical Equipment, Luxembourg Lamesch, Luxembourg Lux Recyclage, Luxembourg Luxlait, Luxembourg LuxAir, Luxembourg Hertz Rent-a-Car Hatherop Castle School, UK AMD Computers 73 Market Street, Venice, CA <br />
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Visual Effects Made in Austin, Texas <br />
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Camera Equipment by Arri <br />
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Processing by Technicolor Laboratories <br />
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Color and Prints by Deluxe Laboratories <br />
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Printed on Eastman Kodak Film <br />
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Dolby In Selected Theaters <br />
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Filmed on location in The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (Europe) under the Audiovisual Certificate Program <br />
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The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events orfirms is purely coincidental. <br />
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TM and (c) Copyright MCMXCVIII by Wing Commander Productions All Rights Reserved <br />
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Wing Commander Productions is the author of this motion picture for purposes of copyright and other laws and any unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition of this motion picture could result in criminal prosecution as well as civil liability. <br />
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Released by Twentieth Century Fox<br />
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[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Holovids_-_Privateer_2:_The_Darkening&diff=61315Holovids - Privateer 2: The Darkening2023-10-18T17:37:39Z<p>AD: /* Mission D - Angus Santana */</p>
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<div>This page links to a complete collection of cutscenes which appeared in [[Privateer 2: The Darkening]] as well as a variety of behind the scenes and marketing material.<br />
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== Cutscenes ==<br />
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===Main Plot===<br />
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====Introduction====<br />
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!colspan="4"|Introduction<br />
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!style="width:200px"|[[File:1_S.png|200px|link=1_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[1_S|Canera]]'''<br>The Canera is ambushed and crashes into Mendra City.<br />
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!style="width:200px"|[[File:CREDIT_S.png|200px|link=CREDIT_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[CREDIT_S|Credits]]'''<br>Opening credits.<br />
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!style="width:200px"|[[File:2_S.png|200px|link=2_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[2_S|Crius Hospital]]'''<br>Lev Arris recovers at Crius Hospital but is pursued by two teams of assassins.<br />
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!style="width:200px"|[[File:3_S.png|200px|link=3_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[3_S|Sinner's Inn]]'''<br>Lev Arris recovers at Crius Hospital but is pursued by two teams of assassins.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:4_S.png|200px|link=4_S]]<br />
|'''[[4_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Sounds illegal... I don't like the sound of it''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:5_S.png|200px|link=5_S]]<br />
|'''[[5_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Maybe I can get a bargain...''<br />
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|colspan="3"|'''[[6_S|Crius Hospital]]'''<br>Lev Arris flashes back to his recovery with Dr. Frevel.<br />
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====Mission A - Dr. Loomis====<br />
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!colspan="4"|Mission A - Dr. Loomis<br />
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|colspan="3"|'''[[7_S|Dr. Loomis]]''' (Crius Hospital)<br>''I'm sorry Ser Arris. But I don't think I'm in any position to help you.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:8_S.png|200px|link=8_S]]<br />
|'''[[8_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''I wonder if leaning on him a little would help ?''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:9_S.png|200px|link=9_S]]<br />
|'''[[9_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Maybe I should back off a little...''<br />
|-<br />
|colspan="4"|It's hard to tell whether Loomis is very nervous or simply uncooperative by nature. He eventually gives you a bit of information, though — he tells you that the Cryo Pod you were found in was custom built and had no registration number or planet of origin. It was at least ten years old. He says it was confiscated. He claims that is all he knows about the matter.<br />
|-<br />
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====Mission C - Hal Taffin====<br />
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!colspan="4"|Mission C - Hal Taffin<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:13_S.png|200px|link=13_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[13_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>''Now if you'll excuse me, I have a wayward chip to discombobulate. Good day.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:16_S.png|200px|link=16_S]]<br />
|'''[[16_S|Choice One A]]'''<br>''Offer him an Inventive...''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:18_S.png|200px|link=18_S]]<br />
|'''[[18_S|Choice One B]]'''<br>''Put the Muscle on him...''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:19_S.png|200px|link=19_S]]<br />
|'''[[19_S|Choice Two A]]'''<br>''I'm really gonna push this punk!''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:20_S.png|200px|link=20_S]]<br />
|'''[[20_S|Choice Two B]]'''<br>''That was dumb... give him a break''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:14_S.png|200px|link=14_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[14_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice One A, First Visit, No Credits<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:15_S.png|200px|link=15_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[15_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice One A, Return Visits, No Credits<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:17_S.png|200px|link=17_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[17_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice One A, Return Visits<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:21_S.png|200px|link=21_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[21_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice Two B, No Credits<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:22_S.png|200px|link=22_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[22_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice Two B, Return Visits, No Credits<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:23_S.png|200px|link=23_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[23_S|Hal Taffin]]''' (Taffin Reclamation)<br>Choice Two B, Return Visits<br />
|-<br />
|colspan="4"|Once you get Taffin to talk — either by paying him 10,000 credits, 20,000 credits or pulling a gun on him (violence won't work on return visits) — he'll tell you that he sold the pod to someone named Angus Santana, at Interplanetary Aid on the planet Anhur.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission D - Angus Santana====<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Mission D - Angus Santana<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:24_S.png|200px|link=24_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[24_S|Angus Santana]]''' (Interplanetary Aid)<br>''You must be with Taffin Reclamation?''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:25_S.png|200px|link=25_S]]<br />
|'''[[25_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Taffin ? Well, okay, why not let him think that.''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:26_S.png|200px|link=26_S]]<br />
|'''[[26_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''There's no point in lying to this guy...''<br />
|-<br />
|colspan="4"|Santana gives you the serial number for the Cryo Pod — D285/067N.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission F - Shernikov====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Mission F - Shernikov<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:27_S.png|200px|link=27_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[27_S|Receptionist]]''' (Shernikov Medical Equipment)<br>''I really can't give out that information.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:28_S.png|200px|link=28_S]]<br />
|'''[[28_S|Choice One A]]'''<br>''I'm going to have to lean on this babe''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:31_S.png|200px|link=31_S]]<br />
|'''[[31_S|Choice One B]]'''<br>''No point in getting pushy. Maybe I should wait around.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:29_S.png|200px|link=29_S]]<br />
|'''[[29_S|Choice Two A]]'''<br>''That was dumb - time to turn on the charm''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:30_S.png|200px|link=3-_S]]<br />
|'''[[30_S|Choice Two B]]'''<br>''That was dumb, time to grovel!''<br />
|-<br />
|colspan="4"|No matter what you do, the receptionist eventually helps you. She looks up the serial number of the Cryo Pod in her database. When she finds the record, she transfers the name and address of the per- son who commissioned the Cryo Pod — Jan Mitorr on Janus IV — to your PAD's transit map.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission G - Jan Mitorr====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission G - Jan Mitorr<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:32_S.png|200px|link=32_S]]<br />
|'''[[32_S|Jan Mitorr]]''' (Jan Mitorr's House)<br>Ser Mitorr takes one look at you and acts like he's seen the living dead. It's obvious that he knows who you are, but he's uncooperative, to say the least. You finally decide to get tough with him, which unfortunately causes him to have a heart attack. With his last gasp, he tells you to go visit Kappa Labs in the Scatter Belt.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission H - Kappa Labs====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission H - Kappa Labs<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:33_S.png|200px|link=33_S]]<br />
|'''[[33_S|Kappa Labs]]'''<br>In this sequence, you explore the lab and basically find the place ransacked. Corpses are everywhere, and there was some kind of fire fight. It looks like someone took one of the Cryo Pods (and was rather determined to do so), but this is about all you can discover.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission J - Who is Hassan?====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission J - Who is Hassan?<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:34_S.png|200px|link=34_S]]<br />
|'''[[34_S|David Hassan]]''' (CIS Offices)<br>This is a pivotal point in the plot, for Hassan tells you about the leading organized crime ring in the Tri-System — the Kindred. The Kindred and its leader, Kronos, are central to the main plot from this point on.<br>Hassan doesn't provide any clues to the mystery of who you are — he doesn't seem to know really, even though he knows a great deal about you. He points out, however, that since the Kindred seem inordinately interested in you, helping him to track down Kronos may help you figure out who you are. (Notice that every time he mentions Kronos, your character seems strangely affected — as if there were something about that word that he just can't quite remember ...) <br>Hassan tells that you the first step toward finding Kronos is to apprehend a man called Malakai, one of the top men in the organization. You accept the mission. Hassan has a Blindfire auto-tracking system and a RTS system installed on your ship (see Software Upgrades, p. 50), and points you toward the Blessed Aquawine company (located on Bex) and a man named Hugo Carmichael.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission L - Meet Hugo====<br />
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{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission L - Meet Hugo<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:35_S.png|200px|link=35_S]]<br />
|'''[[35_S|Hugo Carmichael]]''' (Hugo's Apartment)<br>Hugo is packing, and obviously in a hurry to get to Hephaestus. He drops a few tantalizing bits of information — like the fact that "Malakai" was a code name for Larn Regis (whoever that is), and that Larn died in the crash of the Canera on Crius. But he insists you play wingman for him on his trip to Hephaestus before he gives you more details. He'll meet you at the Galactic Gourmet Hotel once you reach the planet.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission N - Galactic Gourmet====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission N - Galactic Gourmet<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:36_S.png|200px|link=36_S]]<br />
|'''[[36_S|Galactic Gourmet Concierge]]''' (Galactic Gourmet)<br>Actually, this isn't really much of a conversation — Hugo's dead, the guy that shot him takes a pop at you, and before you guys really get a chance to talk, you shoot him. You discover a capsule (a large chrome cylinder reminiscent of a coffee thermos) clenched in the assassin's fist, however, and decide that this must be important.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission O - Code Breaker====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission O - Code Breaker<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:37_S.png|200px|link=37_S]]<br />
|'''[[37_S|Dimitri Avignoni]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>''Thirty thousand problems .... Take it or leave it.''<br>The money is automatically deducted from your account and Dimitri cracks the code.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:38_S.png|200px|link=38_S]]<br />
|'''[[38_S|Dimitri Avignoni]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>''Thirty thousand problems .... Take it or leave it.''<br>You have to get 30k, come back to Sinner's and click on Dimitri to continue the plot.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:39_S.png|200px|link=39_S]]<br />
|'''[[39_S|Dimitri Avignoni]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>Return visit with credits<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:40_S.png|200px|link=40_S]]<br />
|'''[[39_S|Dimitri Avignoni]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>Return visit without credits<br />
|- <br />
|colspan=4|Dimitri hands you the memory solid that was inside the capsule. As soon as he leaves, your PAD pops up (automatically):<br><br>PAD Message. Data Analysis: Codes and Coded Information ... Outer shell access codes contain references to all the planets in the Tri-System. The words Malakai and Rhinehart occur over 100 times each ... Also the names Larn Regis and Veil Ricaud occur over 150 times, as well as the name Ricaud Interplanetary.... Unable to give further information. <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission Q - Hassan the Hero====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission Q - Hassan the Hero<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:41_S.png|200px|link=41_S]]<br />
|'''[[41_S|David Hassan]]''' (CIS Offices)<br>In the midst of telling you that the CIS has caught Rhinehart, Hassan gets a message confirming Rhinehart's transportation to Hades per his orders. However, Hassan gave no such orders, and he realizes this is a trap. You both scramble to save Rhinehart.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission R - Rhinehart Redux====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission R - Rhinehart Redux<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:42_S.png|200px|link=42_S]]<br />
|'''[[42_S|Rhinehart]]''' (Prison Pits)<br>Rhinehart tells all:<br />
<br />
Your real name is Veil Ricaud II. You are one of the sons of Veil Ricaud, and heir to a company called Ricaud Interplanetary. You have a younger brother named Sar. While your father was alive, you developed the amyotrophic ossicular degeneration (AOD) virus and were placed in a crypod until a cure could be found. This broke your mother's heart, and she died.<br />
<br />
Your brother, Sar, never forgave you for your mother's death. When your father died, your brother went completely off the deep end and transformed himself into Kronos and Ricaud Interplanetary into the Kindred. He has since become addicted to anti-aging drugs, which, when used to excess, actually accelerate the aging process and cause insanity.<br />
<br />
Rhinehart also lets it slip that Kronos is on his way to kill Sheila Nabakov (who is Hassan's boss and the head of the CIS).<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Mission T - Kronos====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Mission T - Kronos<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:43_S.png|200px|link=43_S]]<br />
|'''[[43_S|Kronos]]''' (Kronos)<br>Kronos is horribly disfigured. The sack of anti-aging drugs that he drags behind him seems to have backfired. Kronos is also certifiably insane — he's convinced he's the older brother, when in actuality you're older than he is. Turns out this whole thing was a case of overblown sibling rivalry, and Mother always loved you best.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Cinematic Missions===<br />
<br />
====Tamessa Ames====<br />
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{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Tamessa Ames<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:68_S.png|200px|link=68_S]]<br />
|'''[[68_S|Temessa Ames]]''' (Tamessa Ames Apartment)<br>''Ser Arris ... do come in.''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Melissa Banks 2====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Melissa Banks 2<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:59_S.png|200px|link=59_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[59_S|Melissa Banks]]''' (Rampant Robot Bar)<br>''I could use a wingman. Interested?''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:60_S.png|200px|link=60_S]]<br />
|'''[[60_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''In anything you have in mind... Yes!''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:60_S.png|200px|link=60_S]]<br />
|'''[[61_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''I may just sit this one out.''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Bernice Barlow====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Bernice Barlow<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:56_S.png|200px|link=56_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[56_S|Bernice Barlow]]''' (Rampant Robot Bar)<br>''Wanna kill somebody else? I can pay.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:57_S.png|200px|link=57_S]]<br />
|'''[[57_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''7000 ??? For one Shithead! Sounds Fair!''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:58_S.png|200px|link=58_S]]<br />
|'''[[58_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''This isn't a smart way to make a living.''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Alberto Fossa====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Alberto Fossa<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:75_S.png|200px|link=75_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[75_S|Alberto Fossa]]''' (Blessed Brew Bar)<br>''All you would need to do is bid on my behalf.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:76_S.png|200px|link=76_S]]<br />
|'''[[76_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Why Not? Why ask questions? I Might as well''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:77_S.png|200px|link=77_S]]<br />
|'''[[77_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Nah! I want to drink and look at the artwork''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:78_S.png|200px|link=78_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[78_S|Reggie Bray]]''' (Blessed Brew Bar)<br>''Start the bidding.''<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:79_S.png|200px|link=79_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[79_S|Alberto Fossa]]''' (Blessed Brew Bar)<br>''You'll find your account's been credited with the amount we discussed.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Auntie Maria Gabriel====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Auntie Maria Gabriel<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:81_S.png|200px|link=81_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[81_S|Auntie Maria Gabriel]]''' (Blessed Brew Bar)<br>''I'll give you 3000 credits to get me to Hephaestus.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:82_S.png|200px|link=82_S]]<br />
|'''[[82_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Is This Legal?.... Forget It !''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:83_S.png|200px|link=83_S]]<br />
|'''[[83_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Well... Why Not?''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:84_S.png|200px|link=84_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[84_S|Auntie Maria Gabriel]]''' (Rampant Robot Bar)<br>''Don't talk to me about beer.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Dr. Graham Gould====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Dr. Graham Gould<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:62_S.png|200px|link=62_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[62_S|Receptionist]]''' (Crius Hospital)<br>''It's to go to Interplanetary Aid — to a Ser Angus Santana.<br />
''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Uncle Kashumai====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Alberto Fossa<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:74_S.png|200px|link=74_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[74_S|Uncle Kashumai]]''' (Holy Museum of Hom)<br>''We would give anything to get [the statue] back.''<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:78_S.png|200px|link=78_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[78_S|Reggie Bray]]''' (Blessed Brew Bar)<br>''Start the bidding.''<br />
|-<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:79_S.png|200px|link=79_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[80_S|Uncle Kashumai]]''' (Holy Museum of Hom)<br>''Greed is in the heart, not the credit account. Suppose it twenty [thousand] and suppose it done.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Bill Maddox====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Bill Maddox<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:52_S.png|200px|link=52_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[52_S|Bill Maddox]]''' (Shadow Play Bar)<br>''All you've got to do is pick the stuff up.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:53_S.png|200px|link=53_S]]<br />
|'''[[53_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Sounds like a good deal...''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:55_S.png|200px|link=55_S]]<br />
|'''[[55_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Nah! I don't think so...''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:54_S.png|200px|link=54_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[54_S|Bill Maddox]]''' (Shadow Play Bar)<br>''I put a little something in your account just now.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Ralph McCloud====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Ralph McCloud<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:69_S.png|200px|link=69_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[69_S|Ralph McCloud]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>''I'm mighty pleased to meet you stranger, on account of your saving my butt.''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Louisa Phillips====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Louisa Phillips<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:67_S.png|200px|link=67_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[67_S|Louisa Phillips]]''' (Surgeon's Blunder Bar)<br>''Do you have a girlfriend?''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Nelson Ramirez====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Nelson Ramirez<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:70_S.png|200px|link=70_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[70_S|Nelson Ramirez]]''' (Sinner's Inn)<br>''All you've got to do is pick the stuff up.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:71_S.png|200px|link=71_S]]<br />
|'''[[71_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Sounds like a good deal...''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:72_S.png|200px|link=72_S]]<br />
|'''[[72_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Nah! I don't think so...''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:73_S.png|200px|link=73_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[73_S|Nelson Ramirez]]''' (No Name Inn)<br>''I put a little something in your account just now.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Angus Santana====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Angus Santana<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:63_S.png|200px|link=63_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[63_S|Angus Santana]]''' (Interplanetary Aid)<br>''All you've got to do is pick the stuff up.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:64_S.png|200px|link=64_S]]<br />
|'''[[64_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Sure why not''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:65_S.png|200px|link=65_S]]<br />
|'''[[65_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Hmmm.... Sounds a little fishy!''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:66_S.png|200px|link=66_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[66_S|Shernikov Receptionist]]''' (Shernikov Medical Equipment)<br>''I put a little something in your account just now.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Xavier Shondi 1====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Angus Santana<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:44_S.png|200px|link=44_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[44_S|Xavier Shondi]]''' (Surgeon's Blunder Bar)<br>''Got a shipment. All nice gear. Requires a little escorting.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:45_S.png|200px|link=45_S]]<br />
|'''[[45_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Why Not...''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:46_S.png|200px|link=46_S]]<br />
|'''[[45_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Better Give it a Miss...''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:47_S.png|200px|link=47_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[47_S|Xavier Shondi]]''' (Surgeon's Blunder Bar)<br>''Eight thousand is what we agreed on?''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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====Xavier Shondi 2====<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Angus Santana<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:48_S.png|200px|link=48_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[48_S|Xavier Shondi]]''' (Surgeon's Blunder Bar)<br>''All you've got to do is pick the stuff up.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:49_S.png|200px|link=49_S]]<br />
|'''[[49_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Nah! That's not the way I like to do business.''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:50_S.png|200px|link=50_S]]<br />
|'''[[50_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Why Not? This guy's pretty much on the level.''<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:51_S.png|200px|link=51_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[51_S|Xavier Shondi]]''' (Surgeon's Blunder Bar)<br>'I put a little something in your account just now.''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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====Lord Mike Vonx====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: right"; width="66%";<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4"|Lord Mike Vonx<br />
|- <br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:10_S.png|200px|link=10_S]]<br />
|colspan="3"|'''[[10_S|Lord Mike Vonx]]''' (Lord Vonx's Apartment)<br>''I'll give you 3000 credits to get me to Hephaestus.''<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|style="width:200px" align="top"|[[File:11_S.png|200px|link=11_S]]<br />
|'''[[11_S|Choice A]]'''<br>''Well why not? Money's money.''<br />
|style="width:200px"|[[File:12_S.png|200px|link=12_S]]<br />
|'''[[12_S|Choice B]]'''<br>''Nahh... I don't like this political stuff.''<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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===Gameflow===<br />
====Takeoffs====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Takeoffs<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:ANHUR_L.png|200px|link=ANHUR_L]]<br />
|[[ANHUR_L]]: Anhur landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:BEX_L.png|200px|link=BEX_L]]<br />
|[[BEX_L]]: Bex landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:CRIUS_L.png|200px|link=CRIUS_L]]<br />
|[[CRIUS_L]]: Crius landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HADES_L.png|200px|link=HADES_L]]<br />
|[[HADES_L]]: Hades landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HEPH_L.png|200px|link=HEPH_L]]<br />
|[[HEPH_L]]: Hephaestus landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HERMES_L.png|200px|link=HERMES_L]]<br />
|[[HERMES_L]]: Hermes landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:JANUS_L.png|200px|link=JANUS_L]]<br />
|[[JANUS_L]]: Janus IV landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:KARAK_L.png|200px|link=KARAK_L]]<br />
|[[KARAK_L]]: Karatikus landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:KRONOS_L.png|200px|link=KRONOS_L]]<br />
|[[KRONOS_L]]: Kronos landing sequence.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Takeoffs====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Takeoff Scenes<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:KRONOS_X.png|200px|link=KRONOS_X]]<br />
|[[KRONOS_X]]: Kronos takeoff sequence.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Transitions====<br />
<br />
=====Generic=====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Takeoff Scenes<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:ANHUR_T.png|200px|link=ANHUR_T]]<br />
|[[ANHUR_T]]: Anhur transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:BEX_T.png|200px|link=BEX_T]]<br />
|[[BEX_T]]: Bex transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:CRIUS_T.png|200px|link=CRIUS_T]]<br />
|[[CRIUS_T]]: Crius transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HADES_T.png|200px|link=HADES_T]]<br />
|[[HADES_T]]: Hades transition sequence A.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HADES_T1.png|200px|link=HADES_T1]]<br />
|[[HADES_T1]]: Hades transition sequence B.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HEPH_T.png|200px|link=HEPH_T]]<br />
|[[HEPH_T]]: Hephaestus transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:HERMES_T.png|200px|link=HERMES_T]]<br />
|[[HERMES_T]]: Hermes transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:JANUS_T.png|200px|link=JANUS_T]]<br />
|[[JANUS_T]]: Janus IV transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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=====Unique=====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Takeoff Scenes<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:INTER_S.png|200px|link=INTER_S]]<br />
|[[INTER_S]]: Interplanetary Aid transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:MITOR_S.png|200px|link=MITOR_S]]<br />
|[[MITOR_S]]: Jan Mitorr's House transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:SHERN_S.png|200px|link=SHERN_S]]<br />
|[[SHERN_S]]: Shernikov Medical Equipment transition sequence.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:SINN_S.png|200px|link=SINN_S]]<br />
|[[SINN_S]]: Sinner's Inn transition sequence A.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Bartender====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Bartender<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:87_S.png|200px|link=87]]<br />
|[[87_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:88_S.png|200px|link=88]]<br />
|[[88_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:89_S.png|200px|link=89]]<br />
|[[89_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:90_S.png|200px|link=90]]<br />
|[[90_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:91_S.png|200px|link=91]]<br />
|[[91_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:92_S.png|200px|link=92]]<br />
|[[92_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:93_S.png|200px|link=93]]<br />
|[[93_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:94_S.png|200px|link=94]]<br />
|[[94_S]]: Lev Arris talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
====Romance====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Romance<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:95_S.png|200px|link=95_S]]<br />
|[[95_S]]: Lev Arris and Melissa Banks meet at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:96_S.png|200px|link=96_S]]<br />
|[[96_S]]: Lev Arris and Melissa Banks meet at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:97_S.png|200px|link=97_S]]<br />
|[[97_S]]: Lev Arris and Melissa Banks meet at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:98_S.png|200px|link=98_S]]<br />
|[[98_S]]: Lev Arris and Melissa Banks meet at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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====Other====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Cut Scenes<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:INTEL_S.png|200px|link=INTEL_S]]<br />
|[[INTEL_S]]: The Intel logo.<br />
|- <br />
![[File:ORIGIN Privateer 2 The Darkening Cutscene.png|200px|link=ORIGIN (Privateer 2: The Darkening cutscene)]]<br />
|[[ORIGIN (Privateer 2: The Darkening cutscene)|ORIGIN]]: The Origin Systems logo.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Cut Scenes ==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="2"|Cut Scenes<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:85_S.png|200px|link=85_S]]<br />
|[[85_S]]: A bartender scene cut from the final game; found on the Privateer 2: The Darkening demo.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:86_S.png|200px|link=86_S]]<br />
|[[86_S]]: A bartender scene cut from the final game; found on the Privateer 2: The Darkening demo.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Marketing ==<br />
<br />
===Trailers===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="3"|Trailers<br />
|-<br />
![[File:P2.png|200px|link=Kilrathi Saga Trailer]]<br />
|[[Kilrathi Saga Trailer]]: The official Privateer 2: The Darkening trailer released in 1996.<br />
|- <br />
![[File:Privateer_2_Trailer.png|200px|link=Privateer 2 The Darkening Movie Promo Trailer]]<br />
|[[Privateer 2 The Darkening Movie Promo Trailer]]: Internal Privateer 2: The Darkening trailer which leaked online.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Behind the Screens ==<br />
<br />
===Featurettes===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="3"|Featurettes<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:MAKING OF THE DARKENING-Hilliker.png|200px|link=The Making of The Darkening (Steve Hilliker)]]<br />
|[[The Making of The Darkening (Steve Hilliker)]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette comissioned by Electronic Arts; this version was released by Privateer 2: The Darkening director Steve Hilliker.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:DARKEN-BTS-Fun Online.png|200px|link=The Making of The Darkening (Fun Online)]]<br />
|[[The Making of The Darkening (Steve Hilliker)]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette comissioned by Electronic Arts; this version was published by Fun Online.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:The darkening preview-interactive entertainment-no.png|200px|link=Interactive Entertainment The Darkening preview]]<br />
|[[Interactive Entertainment The Darkening preview]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette created for Interactive Entertainment magazine.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:Privateer 2 - Movie set visit Bad Influence.png|200px|link=Bad Influence The Darkening featurette]]<br />
|[[Bad Influence The Darkening featurette]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette created for the Bad Influence television program.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:GamesMaster Feature Privateer 2 The Darkening.png|200px|link=GamesMaster Privateer 2: The Darkening featurette]]<br />
|[[GamesMaster Privateer 2: The Darkening featurette]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette created for the GamesMaster television program.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:Film 96 Report - The Darkening.png|200px|link=Film 96 The Darkening featurette]]<br />
|[[Film 96 The Darkening featurette]]: A behind-the-scenes featurette created for the Film 96 television program.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:SciFi Buzz - Privateer 2 The Darkening.png|200px|link=Buzzboard Privateer 2: The Darkening]]<br />
|[[Buzzboard Privateer 2: The Darkening]]: A promotional spot created for the Sci Fi Buzz television program.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ Magazine Interview-stasha french.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine Holographic Lady behind the scenes video]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine Holographic Lady behind the scenes video]]: EQ Magazine footage of the application of the Holographic Lady makeup on Stasha French.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:Film extra in Privateer 2 - The Darkening.png|200px|link=Mat psychophile]]<br />
|[[Mat psychophile]]: Privateer 2: The Darkening extra Mat psychophile points out where he appears in two scenes at the Sinner's Inn.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Interviews===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="3"|Interviews<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-brian_blessed.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with Brian Blessed]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with Brian Blessed]]: Interview with Brian Blessed on his role as Veldon Kashumai in Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-john_hurt.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with John Hurt]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with John Hurt]]: Interview with John Hurt on his role as Joe Kane in Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-mathilda_may.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with Mathilda May]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with Mathilda May]]: Interview with Mathilda May on her role as Melissa Banks in Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-david_mccallum.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with David McCallum]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with David McCallum]]: Interview with David McCallum on his role as Canera Captain in Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-erin_roberts.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with Erin Roberts]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with Erin Roberts]]: Interview with Erin Roberts on Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:EQ_Magazine_Interview-christopher_walken.png|200px|link=EQ Magazine interview with Christopher Walken]]<br />
|[[EQ Magazine interview with Christopher Walken]]: Interview with Christopher Walken on his role as David Hassan in Privateer 2: The Darkening.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Cinema Cuts===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="66%"<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="3"|Cinema Cuts<br />
|-<br />
!style="width:200px"|[[File:Priv2 hilliker remaster.png|200px|link=The Darkening 25th Anniversary Restoration]]<br />
|[[The Darkening 25th Anniversary Restoration]]: Privateer 2: The Darkening recut into a film by director Steve Hilliker.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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<h1><center>'''WING COMMANDER - THE MOVIE'''</center></h1><br />
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|Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent <br />
<br />
March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...??? <br />
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This milk run just got a little more interesting. <br />
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Starship Troopers meets Top Gun in this no-holds-barred battle on the far reaches of space. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discovered the coordinates to Earth and is heading there with plans for total destruction. Now all that stands between Earth and this new breed of enemy are two young hotshot fighter pilots and their elite fighter squadron on the battleship Tiger Claw. It's an all-out race against time as they engage the Kilrathi in a final desperate attempt to prevent them from reaching Earth space - and obliterating all mankind.<br />
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|March 12th, 1999<br />
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| Aspect ratio: <br />
| 2.35:1<br />
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{{HeadingB|ALTERNATE VERSIONS}}<br />
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*workprint<br />
**[http://www.wcnews.com/articles/movie_cuts.shtml A breakdown of the scenes missing from the theatrical cut] with photos!<br />
*deleted scenes<br />
**[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Images_-_Traitor_%26_Deleted_Scenes| Image Gallery]]<br />
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;International Versions<br />
*Alternate Titles<br />
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** Arabic = قائد الجناح<br />
** Argentina = Wing Commander: Escuadrón espacial<br />
** Brazil = A Batalha Final<br />
** Bulgarian = Космически пилоти<br />
** Canada (French title) = Pilotes sans peur (?)<br />
** Chinese = 鐵翼司令 ; 星際戰爭─未來戰士 ; 星际战争:未来战士 ; 飞航指挥官 ; 銀河戰士 ; 银河飞将 ; 銀河飛將<br />
** Croatia = Bitka za svemir <br />
** Farsi (Persian) = فرمانده پرواز <br />
** Greece = ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ / Oi frouroi tou diastimatos - Space Guards<br />
** Hungary = Wing Commander - Az ürkommandó<br />
** Italy = Attacco Alla Terra<br />
** Japanese = ウィング・コマンダー<br />
** Korean = 윙 커맨더<br />
** Poland = Nieprzerwana akcja - Wing Commander<br />
** Portugal = Comandante de Esquadrilha<br />
** Romanian = Război interstelar (Interstellar War) ; Piloții intergalactici<br />
** Russia = Командир эскадрильи (Squadron Commander)<br />
** Serbia = Komandant eskadrile<br />
** Thai = Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (''Protection Squadron through the universe'')<br />
** Turkey = Cesaret kanatlari<br />
** Ukranian = Командир ескадрильї<br />
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{{HeadingB|PRODUCTS}}<br />
; Books<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Junior_Novelization|Movie Junior Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Novelization|Movie Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Stars|Pilgrim Stars]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Truth|Pilgrim Truth]]<br />
* [[Official Authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook|Confederation Handbook]]<br />
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; Music<br />
* [[Wing Commander Movie Soundtrack]] [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125]<br />
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; Pilgrim Cross<br />
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* [[:File:FINTigerClaw2.jpg| Cutaway Poster]]<br />
* [[CIC - LOAF - Feb 12, 2001 - I Love This Baby|Ship Toys]]<br />
* Wing Commander - The Ride<br />
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| publisher =Anchor Bay Entertainment / Fox<br />
| releasedate =August 13th, 2013<br />
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*[[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#FEATURETTE|FEATURETTE: The making of Wing Commander]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#INTERVIEWS|Interviews with the cast]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#UNEDITED B-ROLL|Unedited B-roll]]<br />
*Video - Behind the scenes: [[:Category:Wing Commander Movie Images - Making the Intro| Creating the film's opening credits]] (4 min 11 secs, 17.9 MB)<br />
*Brief [[Wing Commander Movie - Pixel Bunny Clip|behind-the-scenes clip]] of some effects work.<br />
*[[Wing Commander Movie - Edible Rice Clip|Behind-the-scenes clip]] of the Kilrathi alien effects<br />
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;Documents<br />
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*Scripts<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_First_Draft |First Draft]] - October 27, 1995<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Second_Draft |Second Draft]] - September 21, 1997<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Third_Draft |Third Draft]] - January 8th, 1998<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Shooting_Script |Shooting Script]] - April 3rd, 1998<br />
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*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/WC_Movie_Set_Book.pdf Set Book] <br />
**A collection of information about where and when filming took place<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Production_Notes| Production Notes]]<br />
**Please note that this article originated in Spanish. The English on the page is a terrible google translation and assistance in doing a proper translation would be appreciated.<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_German_Press_Book| German Press Book]]<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Style_Book|Wing Commander Movie Style Book]]<br />
*[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press| Magazine articles]]<br />
*[[Pheonix Pictures Memo]]<br />
*[[Starlog-Mar99-Official_Movie_Magazine| Starlog]] <br />
*[[wcmovie.com website text]]<br />
*[[FOX Theater Promotion Sheet]]<br />
*[[Excerpt - XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood|Excerpt from the book Generation XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood]] <br />
**[[Behind the Scenes of the Wing Commander Movie - July 17, 2012|Chris Roberts' Response]]<br />
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;Anecdotes<br />
*Roger Simonsz, camera operator and second unit DP on the Wing Commander Movie, used his experiences on the set of the Wing Commander movie as an example in his presentation at the Showlight conference in 2005 ([http://www.showlight.org/Showlight%20-%20STLD%20Mag.pdf PDF Page 6]). He specifically commented on the use of color lighting and how it worked with the Kilrathi. [http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10102]<br />
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''"One key point that Roger made in his talk was that - cinematic and tv lighting directors have the power to decide on the colour palette of the piece and to share that with the audience. He recounted his experience of working on the film 'Wing Commander' where the LD decided that the good guys would be lit in blue, battle scenes would be lit in red, and the aliens would be lit in ... you guessed it green."'' <br />
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''"Roger spent two days filming in the green light and explained that contrary to what he'd been taught that green is a calming colour, he had found that he'd become more agitated the longer he'd spent immersed in green light only. LD's spend a lot of time looking at light and its effects but seldom spend time immersed in it."''<br />
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*[http://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/06/11/wing-commander-goes-green Retrograde]<br />
<br />
Both Wing Commander and Retrograde, a 2004 direct-to-video action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, were produced in Luxembourg by the Carousel Picture Company, which apparently decided to recycle some of Chris Roberts' sets and props--the Tiger's Claw flight deck, Rapiers, marine rifles and armor and so on--to decorate post-apocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2204. <br />
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Image:Blaircockpit6.jpg|I'm a fighter pilot in a war zone<br />
Image:Movie behind the scene.jpg|On the outside looking in<br />
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<center>'''<big>[[#ABOUT THE FILM|ABOUT THE FILM]] | [[#WHERE TO WATCH|WHERE TO WATCH]] | [[#ALTERNATE VERSIONS|ALTERNATE VERSIONS]] | [[#HOME VIDEO|HOME VIDEO]] | [[#PRODUCTS|PRODUCTS]] | [[#BEHIND THE SCENES|BEHIND THE SCENES]] | [[:Category:Wing_commander_movie_images|PRODUCTION PHOTOS & CONCEPT ART]] | [[Spotters Guide - Ships of the Wing Commander Movie|NAME THAT SHIP!]] | [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131646/ CREDITS] </big>'''</center><br />
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|Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent <br />
<br />
March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...??? <br />
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Starship Troopers meets Top Gun in this no-holds-barred battle on the far reaches of space. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discovered the coordinates to Earth and is heading there with plans for total destruction. Now all that stands between Earth and this new breed of enemy are two young hotshot fighter pilots and their elite fighter squadron on the battleship Tiger Claw. It's an all-out race against time as they engage the Kilrathi in a final desperate attempt to prevent them from reaching Earth space - and obliterating all mankind.<br />
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|March 12th, 1999<br />
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| Aspect ratio: <br />
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*workprint<br />
**[http://www.wcnews.com/articles/movie_cuts.shtml A breakdown of the scenes missing from the theatrical cut] with photos!<br />
*deleted scenes<br />
**[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Images_-_Traitor_%26_Deleted_Scenes| Image Gallery]]<br />
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;International Versions<br />
*Alternate Titles<br />
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** Arabic = قائد الجناح<br />
** Argentina = Wing Commander: Escuadrón espacial<br />
** Brazil = A Batalha Final<br />
** Bulgarian = Космически пилоти<br />
** Canada (French title) = Pilotes sans peur (?)<br />
** Chinese = 鐵翼司令 ; 星際戰爭─未來戰士 ; 星际战争:未来战士 ; 飞航指挥官 ; 銀河戰士 ; 银河飞将 ; 銀河飛將<br />
** Croatia = Bitka za svemir <br />
** Farsi (Persian) = فرمانده پرواز <br />
** Greece = ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ / Oi frouroi tou diastimatos - Space Guards<br />
** Hungary = Wing Commander - Az ürkommandó<br />
** Italy = Attacco Alla Terra<br />
** Japanese = ウィング・コマンダー<br />
** Korean = 윙 커맨더<br />
** Poland = Nieprzerwana akcja - Wing Commander<br />
** Portugal = Comandante de Esquadrilha<br />
** Romanian = Război interstelar (Interstellar War) ; Piloții intergalactici<br />
** Russia = Командир эскадрильи (Squadron Commander)<br />
** Serbia = Komandant eskadrile<br />
** Thai = Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (''Protection Squadron through the universe'')<br />
** Turkey = Cesaret kanatlari<br />
** Ukranian = Командир ескадрильї<br />
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; Books<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Junior_Novelization|Movie Junior Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Novelization|Movie Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Stars|Pilgrim Stars]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Truth|Pilgrim Truth]]<br />
* [[Official Authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook|Confederation Handbook]]<br />
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; Music<br />
* [[Wing Commander Movie Soundtrack]] [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125]<br />
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; Pilgrim Cross<br />
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; Canceled<br />
* [[:File:FINTigerClaw2.jpg| Cutaway Poster]]<br />
* [[CIC - LOAF - Feb 12, 2001 - I Love This Baby|Ship Toys]]<br />
* Wing Commander - The Ride<br />
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|<br />
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| publisher =Anchor Bay Entertainment / Fox<br />
| releasedate =August 13th, 2013<br />
| runningtime =100<br />
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| language =English<br />
| publisher =20th Century Fox<br />
| releasedate =July 6th, 1999<br />
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*[[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#FEATURETTE|FEATURETTE: The making of Wing Commander]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#INTERVIEWS|Interviews with the cast]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#UNEDITED B-ROLL|Unedited B-roll]]<br />
*Video - Behind the scenes: [[:Category:Wing Commander Movie Images - Making the Intro| Creating the film's opening credits]] (4 min 11 secs, 17.9 MB)<br />
*Brief [[Wing Commander Movie - Pixel Bunny Clip|behind-the-scenes clip]] of some effects work.<br />
*[[Wing Commander Movie - Edible Rice Clip|Behind-the-scenes clip]] of the Kilrathi alien effects<br />
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;Documents<br />
<br />
*Scripts<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_First_Draft |First Draft]] - October 27, 1995<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Second_Draft |Second Draft]] - September 21, 1997<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Third_Draft |Third Draft]] - January 8th, 1998<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Shooting_Script |Shooting Script]] - April 3rd, 1998<br />
<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/WC_Movie_Set_Book.pdf Set Book] <br />
**A collection of information about where and when filming took place<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Production_Notes| Production Notes]]<br />
**Please note that this article originated in Spanish. The English on the page is a terrible google translation and assistance in doing a proper translation would be appreciated.<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_German_Press_Book| German Press Book]]<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Style_Book|Wing Commander Movie Style Book]]<br />
*[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press| Magazine articles]]<br />
*[[Pheonix Pictures Memo]]<br />
*[[Starlog-Mar99-Official_Movie_Magazine| Starlog]] <br />
*[[wcmovie.com website text]]<br />
*[[FOX Theater Promotion Sheet]]<br />
*[[Excerpt - XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood|Excerpt from the book Generation XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood]] <br />
**[[Behind the Scenes of the Wing Commander Movie - July 17, 2012|Chris Roberts' Response]]<br />
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;Anecdotes<br />
*Roger Simonsz, camera operator and second unit DP on the Wing Commander Movie, used his experiences on the set of the Wing Commander movie as an example in his presentation at the Showlight conference in 2005 ([http://www.showlight.org/Showlight%20-%20STLD%20Mag.pdf PDF Page 6]). He specifically commented on the use of color lighting and how it worked with the Kilrathi. [http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10102]<br />
<br />
''"One key point that Roger made in his talk was that - cinematic and tv lighting directors have the power to decide on the colour palette of the piece and to share that with the audience. He recounted his experience of working on the film 'Wing Commander' where the LD decided that the good guys would be lit in blue, battle scenes would be lit in red, and the aliens would be lit in ... you guessed it green."'' <br />
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''"Roger spent two days filming in the green light and explained that contrary to what he'd been taught that green is a calming colour, he had found that he'd become more agitated the longer he'd spent immersed in green light only. LD's spend a lot of time looking at light and its effects but seldom spend time immersed in it."''<br />
<br />
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*[http://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/06/11/wing-commander-goes-green Retrograde]<br />
<br />
Both Wing Commander and Retrograde, a 2004 direct-to-video action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, were produced in Luxembourg by the Carousel Picture Company, which apparently decided to recycle some of Chris Roberts' sets and props--the Tiger's Claw flight deck, Rapiers, marine rifles and armor and so on--to decorate post-apocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2204. <br />
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Image:Wing commander film img3.jpg|Hanging in there<br />
Image:Blaircockpit6.jpg|I'm a fighter pilot in a war zone<br />
Image:Movie behind the scene.jpg|On the outside looking in<br />
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|Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent <br />
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March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...??? <br />
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This milk run just got a little more interesting. <br />
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Starship Troopers meets Top Gun in this no-holds-barred battle on the far reaches of space. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discovered the coordinates to Earth and is heading there with plans for total destruction. Now all that stands between Earth and this new breed of enemy are two young hotshot fighter pilots and their elite fighter squadron on the battleship Tiger Claw. It's an all-out race against time as they engage the Kilrathi in a final desperate attempt to prevent them from reaching Earth space - and obliterating all mankind.<br />
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**[http://www.wcnews.com/articles/movie_cuts.shtml A breakdown of the scenes missing from the theatrical cut] with photos!<br />
*deleted scenes<br />
**[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Images_-_Traitor_%26_Deleted_Scenes| Image Gallery]]<br />
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;International Versions<br />
*Alternate Titles<br />
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** Arabic = قائد الجناح<br />
** Argentina = Wing Commander: Escuadrón espacial<br />
** Brazil = A Batalha Final<br />
** Bulgarian = Космически пилоти<br />
** Canada (French title) = Pilotes sans peur (?)<br />
** Chinese = 鐵翼司令 ; 星際戰爭─未來戰士 ; 銀河戰士 ; 银河飞将 ; 銀河飛將<br />
** Croatia = Bitka za svemir<br />
** Farsi (Persian) = فرمانده پرواز <br />
** Greece = ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ / Oi frouroi tou diastimatos - Space Guards<br />
** Hungary = Wing Commander - Az ürkommandó<br />
** Italy = Attacco Alla Terra<br />
** Japanese = ウィング・コマンダー<br />
** Korean = 윙 커맨더<br />
** Poland = Nieprzerwana akcja - Wing Commander<br />
** Portugal = Comandante de Esquadrilha<br />
** Romanian = Război interstelar (Interstellar War) ; Piloții intergalactici<br />
** Russia = Командир эскадрильи (Squadron Commander)<br />
** Serbia = Komandant eskadrile<br />
** Thai = Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (''Protection Squadron through the universe'')<br />
** Turkey = Cesaret kanatlari<br />
** Ukranian = Командир ескадрильї<br />
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; Books<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Junior_Novelization|Movie Junior Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Novelization|Movie Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Stars|Pilgrim Stars]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Truth|Pilgrim Truth]]<br />
* [[Official Authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook|Confederation Handbook]]<br />
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; Music<br />
* [[Wing Commander Movie Soundtrack]] [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125]<br />
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* [[:File:FINTigerClaw2.jpg| Cutaway Poster]]<br />
* [[CIC - LOAF - Feb 12, 2001 - I Love This Baby|Ship Toys]]<br />
* Wing Commander - The Ride<br />
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*[[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#FEATURETTE|FEATURETTE: The making of Wing Commander]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#INTERVIEWS|Interviews with the cast]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#UNEDITED B-ROLL|Unedited B-roll]]<br />
*Video - Behind the scenes: [[:Category:Wing Commander Movie Images - Making the Intro| Creating the film's opening credits]] (4 min 11 secs, 17.9 MB)<br />
*Brief [[Wing Commander Movie - Pixel Bunny Clip|behind-the-scenes clip]] of some effects work.<br />
*[[Wing Commander Movie - Edible Rice Clip|Behind-the-scenes clip]] of the Kilrathi alien effects<br />
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;Documents<br />
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*Scripts<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_First_Draft |First Draft]] - October 27, 1995<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Second_Draft |Second Draft]] - September 21, 1997<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Third_Draft |Third Draft]] - January 8th, 1998<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Shooting_Script |Shooting Script]] - April 3rd, 1998<br />
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*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/WC_Movie_Set_Book.pdf Set Book] <br />
**A collection of information about where and when filming took place<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Production_Notes| Production Notes]]<br />
**Please note that this article originated in Spanish. The English on the page is a terrible google translation and assistance in doing a proper translation would be appreciated.<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_German_Press_Book| German Press Book]]<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Style_Book|Wing Commander Movie Style Book]]<br />
*[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press| Magazine articles]]<br />
*[[Pheonix Pictures Memo]]<br />
*[[Starlog-Mar99-Official_Movie_Magazine| Starlog]] <br />
*[[wcmovie.com website text]]<br />
*[[FOX Theater Promotion Sheet]]<br />
*[[Excerpt - XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood|Excerpt from the book Generation XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood]] <br />
**[[Behind the Scenes of the Wing Commander Movie - July 17, 2012|Chris Roberts' Response]]<br />
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;Anecdotes<br />
*Roger Simonsz, camera operator and second unit DP on the Wing Commander Movie, used his experiences on the set of the Wing Commander movie as an example in his presentation at the Showlight conference in 2005 ([http://www.showlight.org/Showlight%20-%20STLD%20Mag.pdf PDF Page 6]). He specifically commented on the use of color lighting and how it worked with the Kilrathi. [http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10102]<br />
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''"One key point that Roger made in his talk was that - cinematic and tv lighting directors have the power to decide on the colour palette of the piece and to share that with the audience. He recounted his experience of working on the film 'Wing Commander' where the LD decided that the good guys would be lit in blue, battle scenes would be lit in red, and the aliens would be lit in ... you guessed it green."'' <br />
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''"Roger spent two days filming in the green light and explained that contrary to what he'd been taught that green is a calming colour, he had found that he'd become more agitated the longer he'd spent immersed in green light only. LD's spend a lot of time looking at light and its effects but seldom spend time immersed in it."''<br />
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*[http://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/06/11/wing-commander-goes-green Retrograde]<br />
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Both Wing Commander and Retrograde, a 2004 direct-to-video action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, were produced in Luxembourg by the Carousel Picture Company, which apparently decided to recycle some of Chris Roberts' sets and props--the Tiger's Claw flight deck, Rapiers, marine rifles and armor and so on--to decorate post-apocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2204. <br />
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Image:WCMArtBook14.jpg|The Kilrathi are like space Samurai<br />
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Image:Movie claw hangar bts.jpg|Mirror universe<br />
Image:Wing commander film img3.jpg|Hanging in there<br />
Image:Blaircockpit6.jpg|I'm a fighter pilot in a war zone<br />
Image:Movie behind the scene.jpg|On the outside looking in<br />
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|Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent <br />
<br />
March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...??? <br />
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This milk run just got a little more interesting. <br />
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Starship Troopers meets Top Gun in this no-holds-barred battle on the far reaches of space. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discovered the coordinates to Earth and is heading there with plans for total destruction. Now all that stands between Earth and this new breed of enemy are two young hotshot fighter pilots and their elite fighter squadron on the battleship Tiger Claw. It's an all-out race against time as they engage the Kilrathi in a final desperate attempt to prevent them from reaching Earth space - and obliterating all mankind.<br />
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[[Wing Commander Movie Posters|See More Posters!]]<br />
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{|<br />
|Release date:<br />
|- <br />
|US Theatrical: <br />
|March 12th, 1999<br />
|- <br />
| Aspect ratio: <br />
| 2.35:1<br />
|-<br />
| Running time:<br />
| 100 Minutes<br />
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{{HeadingB|ALTERNATE VERSIONS}}<br />
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*workprint<br />
**[http://www.wcnews.com/articles/movie_cuts.shtml A breakdown of the scenes missing from the theatrical cut] with photos!<br />
*deleted scenes<br />
**[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Images_-_Traitor_%26_Deleted_Scenes| Image Gallery]]<br />
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;International Versions<br />
*Alternate Titles<br />
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** Arabic = قائد الجناح<br />
** Argentina = Wing Commander: Escuadrón espacial<br />
** Brazil = A Batalha Final<br />
** Bulgarian = Космически пилоти<br />
** Canada (French title) = Pilotes sans peur (?)<br />
** Chinese = 鐵翼司令 ; 星際戰爭─未來戰士 ; 銀河戰士 ; 银河飞将 ; 銀河飛將<br />
** Croatia = Bitka za svemir<br />
** Farsi (Persian) = فرمانده پرواز <br />
** Greece = ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ / Oi frouroi tou diastimatos - Space Guards<br />
** Hungary = Wing Commander - Az ürkommandó<br />
** Italy = Attacco Alla Terra<br />
** Japanese = ウィング・コマンダー<br />
** Korean = 윙 커맨더<br />
** Poland = Nieprzerwana akcja - Wing Commander<br />
** Portugal = Comandante de Esquadrilha<br />
** Romanian = Război interstelar (Interstellar War) ; Piloții intergalactici<br />
** Russia = Командир эскадрильи (Squadron Commander)<br />
** Serbia = Komandant eskadrile<br />
** Thai = Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (''Protection Squadron through the universe'')<br />
** Turkey = Cesaret kanatlari<br />
** Ukranian = Командир ескадрильї<br />
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; Books<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Junior_Novelization|Movie Junior Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Novelization|Movie Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Stars|Pilgrim Stars]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Truth|Pilgrim Truth]]<br />
* [[Official Authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook|Confederation Handbook]]<br />
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; Music<br />
* [[Wing Commander Movie Soundtrack]] [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125]<br />
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; Pilgrim Cross<br />
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; Canceled<br />
* [[:File:FINTigerClaw2.jpg| Cutaway Poster]]<br />
* [[CIC - LOAF - Feb 12, 2001 - I Love This Baby|Ship Toys]]<br />
* Wing Commander - The Ride<br />
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| publisher =Anchor Bay Entertainment / Fox<br />
| releasedate =August 13th, 2013<br />
| runningtime =100<br />
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| cover_artist =<br />
| language =English<br />
| publisher =20th Century Fox<br />
| releasedate =July 6th, 1999<br />
| runningtime =100<br />
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*[[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#FEATURETTE|FEATURETTE: The making of Wing Commander]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#INTERVIEWS|Interviews with the cast]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#UNEDITED B-ROLL|Unedited B-roll]]<br />
*Video - Behind the scenes: [[:Category:Wing Commander Movie Images - Making the Intro| Creating the film's opening credits]] (4 min 11 secs, 17.9 MB)<br />
*Brief [[Wing Commander Movie - Pixel Bunny Clip|behind-the-scenes clip]] of some effects work.<br />
*[[Wing Commander Movie - Edible Rice Clip|Behind-the-scenes clip]] of the Kilrathi alien effects<br />
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;Documents<br />
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*Scripts<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_First_Draft |First Draft]] - October 27, 1995<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Second_Draft |Second Draft]] - September 21, 1997<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Third_Draft |Third Draft]] - January 8th, 1998<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Shooting_Script |Shooting Script]] - April 3rd, 1998<br />
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*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/WC_Movie_Set_Book.pdf Set Book] <br />
**A collection of information about where and when filming took place<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Production_Notes| Production Notes]]<br />
**Please note that this article originated in Spanish. The English on the page is a terrible google translation and assistance in doing a proper translation would be appreciated.<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_German_Press_Book| German Press Book]]<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Style_Book|Wing Commander Movie Style Book]]<br />
*[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press| Magazine articles]]<br />
*[[Pheonix Pictures Memo]]<br />
*[[Starlog-Mar99-Official_Movie_Magazine| Starlog]] <br />
*[[wcmovie.com website text]]<br />
*[[FOX Theater Promotion Sheet]]<br />
*[[Excerpt - XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood|Excerpt from the book Generation XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood]] <br />
**[[Behind the Scenes of the Wing Commander Movie - July 17, 2012|Chris Roberts' Response]]<br />
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<br />
;Anecdotes<br />
*Roger Simonsz, camera operator and second unit DP on the Wing Commander Movie, used his experiences on the set of the Wing Commander movie as an example in his presentation at the Showlight conference in 2005 ([http://www.showlight.org/Showlight%20-%20STLD%20Mag.pdf PDF Page 6]). He specifically commented on the use of color lighting and how it worked with the Kilrathi. [http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10102]<br />
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''"One key point that Roger made in his talk was that - cinematic and tv lighting directors have the power to decide on the colour palette of the piece and to share that with the audience. He recounted his experience of working on the film 'Wing Commander' where the LD decided that the good guys would be lit in blue, battle scenes would be lit in red, and the aliens would be lit in ... you guessed it green."'' <br />
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''"Roger spent two days filming in the green light and explained that contrary to what he'd been taught that green is a calming colour, he had found that he'd become more agitated the longer he'd spent immersed in green light only. LD's spend a lot of time looking at light and its effects but seldom spend time immersed in it."''<br />
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*[http://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/06/11/wing-commander-goes-green Retrograde]<br />
<br />
Both Wing Commander and Retrograde, a 2004 direct-to-video action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, were produced in Luxembourg by the Carousel Picture Company, which apparently decided to recycle some of Chris Roberts' sets and props--the Tiger's Claw flight deck, Rapiers, marine rifles and armor and so on--to decorate post-apocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2204. <br />
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Image:Wing commander film img3.jpg|Hanging in there<br />
Image:Blaircockpit6.jpg|I'm a fighter pilot in a war zone<br />
Image:Movie behind the scene.jpg|On the outside looking in<br />
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<h1><center>'''WING COMMANDER - THE MOVIE'''</center></h1><br />
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<center>'''<big>[[#ABOUT THE FILM|ABOUT THE FILM]] | [[#WHERE TO WATCH|WHERE TO WATCH]] | [[#ALTERNATE VERSIONS|ALTERNATE VERSIONS]] | [[#HOME VIDEO|HOME VIDEO]] | [[#PRODUCTS|PRODUCTS]] | [[#BEHIND THE SCENES|BEHIND THE SCENES]] | [[:Category:Wing_commander_movie_images|PRODUCTION PHOTOS & CONCEPT ART]] | [[Spotters Guide - Ships of the Wing Commander Movie|NAME THAT SHIP!]] | [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131646/ CREDITS] </big>'''</center><br />
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|Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent <br />
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March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...??? <br />
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Starship Troopers meets Top Gun in this no-holds-barred battle on the far reaches of space. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discovered the coordinates to Earth and is heading there with plans for total destruction. Now all that stands between Earth and this new breed of enemy are two young hotshot fighter pilots and their elite fighter squadron on the battleship Tiger Claw. It's an all-out race against time as they engage the Kilrathi in a final desperate attempt to prevent them from reaching Earth space - and obliterating all mankind.<br />
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[[Wing Commander Movie Posters|See More Posters!]]<br />
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{|<br />
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|March 12th, 1999<br />
|- <br />
| Aspect ratio: <br />
| 2.35:1<br />
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| Running time:<br />
| 100 Minutes<br />
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{{HeadingB|ALTERNATE VERSIONS}}<br />
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*workprint<br />
**[http://www.wcnews.com/articles/movie_cuts.shtml A breakdown of the scenes missing from the theatrical cut] with photos!<br />
*deleted scenes<br />
**[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Images_-_Traitor_%26_Deleted_Scenes| Image Gallery]]<br />
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;International Versions<br />
*Alternate Titles<br />
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** Arabic = قائد الجناح<br />
** Argentina = Wing Commander: Escuadrón espacial<br />
** Brazil = A Batalha Final<br />
** Bulgarian = Космически пилоти<br />
** Canada (French title) = Pilotes sans peur (?)<br />
** Chinese = 鐵翼司令 ; 星際戰爭─未來戰士 ; 銀河戰士 ; 银河飞将 ; 銀河飛將<br />
** Croatia = Bitka za svemir<br />
** Farsi (Persian) = فرمانده پرواز <br />
** Greece = ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ / Oi frouroi tou diastimatos - Space Guards<br />
** Hungary = Wing Commander - Az ürkommandó<br />
** Italy = Attacco Alla Terra<br />
** Japanese = ウィング・コマンダー<br />
** Korean = 윙 커맨더<br />
** Poland = Nieprzerwana akcja - Wing Commander<br />
** Portugal = Comandante de Esquadrilha<br />
** Romanian = Război interstelar (Interstellar War) ; Piloții intergalactici<br />
** Russia = Командир эскадрильи (Squadron Commander)<br />
** Serbia = Komandant eskadrile<br />
** Thai = Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (''Protection Squadron through the universe'')<br />
** Turkey = Cesaret kanatlari<br />
** Ukranian = Командир ескадрильї<br />
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; Books<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Junior_Novelization|Movie Junior Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Novelization|Movie Novelization]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Stars|Pilgrim Stars]]<br />
* [[:Category:Wing_Commander:_Pilgrim_Truth|Pilgrim Truth]]<br />
* [[Official Authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook|Confederation Handbook]]<br />
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; Music<br />
* [[Wing Commander Movie Soundtrack]] [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125]<br />
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; Toys<br />
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; Pilgrim Cross<br />
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; Canceled<br />
* [[:File:FINTigerClaw2.jpg| Cutaway Poster]]<br />
* [[CIC - LOAF - Feb 12, 2001 - I Love This Baby|Ship Toys]]<br />
* Wing Commander - The Ride<br />
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|HD Rental Available With Amazon Instant enabled TVs<br />
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|* [http://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/wing-commander-the-movie/id271553048 iTunes] <br />
|HD Rental Available<br />
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|* [http://social.zune.net/movies/Wing-Commander:-The-Movie/883571fd-d3a8-4a63-83df-6d6bb2b59794 Xbox Live / Zune] <br />
|HD Rental Available<br />
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|* [http://www.vudu.com/movies/#more_info/7689/Wing-Commander Vudu ] <br />
|HD Purchase and Rental Available - Streaming Only<br />
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|*[http://go.sky.com/vod/content/SKYMOVIES/content/videoId/deac5f736f443310VgnVCM1000000b43150a________/content/default/videoDetailsPage.do Sky Player]<br />
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|* [https://www.directv.com/movies/Wing-Commander-SEF3R0tvUDdUWE1LYmZMT1lkKzFrZz09?format=HD&primaryCta=linear HBO on demand]<br />
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|*[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/v/Wing-Commander/2949000306324?ean=2949000333092 Nook]<br />
|Available in SD and HD for rental or purchase<br />
|<br />
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|*[https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Wing_Commander_The_Movie?id=h1eKsyk1IHU Google Play]<br />
|Available in SD for rental or purchase<br />
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[[Wing_Commander_Movie_-_DVD_Details| CLICK HERE to see details about the various DVD releases of the Wing Commander film]]<br />
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| publisher =Anchor Bay Entertainment / Fox<br />
| releasedate =August 13th, 2013<br />
| runningtime =100<br />
| retailprice =[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00D3LA698/wingcommander-20 Order from Amazon.com]<br />
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| image =Image:Wing_commander_dvd_insert.jpg<br />
| caption =North American Region 1 DVD <br />
| cover_artist =<br />
| language =English<br />
| publisher =20th Century Fox<br />
| releasedate =July 6th, 1999<br />
| runningtime =100<br />
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*[[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#FEATURETTE|FEATURETTE: The making of Wing Commander]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#INTERVIEWS|Interviews with the cast]]<br />
**WATCH: [[Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit#UNEDITED B-ROLL|Unedited B-roll]]<br />
*Video - Behind the scenes: [[:Category:Wing Commander Movie Images - Making the Intro| Creating the film's opening credits]] (4 min 11 secs, 17.9 MB)<br />
*Brief [[Wing Commander Movie - Pixel Bunny Clip|behind-the-scenes clip]] of some effects work.<br />
*[[Wing Commander Movie - Edible Rice Clip|Behind-the-scenes clip]] of the Kilrathi alien effects<br />
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;Documents<br />
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*Scripts<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_First_Draft |First Draft]] - October 27, 1995<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Second_Draft |Second Draft]] - September 21, 1997<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Script_Third_Draft |Third Draft]] - January 8th, 1998<br />
** [[Wing_Commander_Movie_Shooting_Script |Shooting Script]] - April 3rd, 1998<br />
<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/WC_Movie_Set_Book.pdf Set Book] <br />
**A collection of information about where and when filming took place<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Production_Notes| Production Notes]]<br />
**Please note that this article originated in Spanish. The English on the page is a terrible google translation and assistance in doing a proper translation would be appreciated.<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_German_Press_Book| German Press Book]]<br />
*[[Wing_Commander_Movie_Style_Book|Wing Commander Movie Style Book]]<br />
*[[:Category:Wing_Commander_Movie_Press| Magazine articles]]<br />
*[[Pheonix Pictures Memo]]<br />
*[[Starlog-Mar99-Official_Movie_Magazine| Starlog]] <br />
*[[wcmovie.com website text]]<br />
*[[FOX Theater Promotion Sheet]]<br />
*[[Excerpt - XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood|Excerpt from the book Generation XBox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood]] <br />
**[[Behind the Scenes of the Wing Commander Movie - July 17, 2012|Chris Roberts' Response]]<br />
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;Anecdotes<br />
*Roger Simonsz, camera operator and second unit DP on the Wing Commander Movie, used his experiences on the set of the Wing Commander movie as an example in his presentation at the Showlight conference in 2005 ([http://www.showlight.org/Showlight%20-%20STLD%20Mag.pdf PDF Page 6]). He specifically commented on the use of color lighting and how it worked with the Kilrathi. [http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10102]<br />
<br />
''"One key point that Roger made in his talk was that - cinematic and tv lighting directors have the power to decide on the colour palette of the piece and to share that with the audience. He recounted his experience of working on the film 'Wing Commander' where the LD decided that the good guys would be lit in blue, battle scenes would be lit in red, and the aliens would be lit in ... you guessed it green."'' <br />
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''"Roger spent two days filming in the green light and explained that contrary to what he'd been taught that green is a calming colour, he had found that he'd become more agitated the longer he'd spent immersed in green light only. LD's spend a lot of time looking at light and its effects but seldom spend time immersed in it."''<br />
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*[http://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/06/11/wing-commander-goes-green Retrograde]<br />
<br />
Both Wing Commander and Retrograde, a 2004 direct-to-video action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, were produced in Luxembourg by the Carousel Picture Company, which apparently decided to recycle some of Chris Roberts' sets and props--the Tiger's Claw flight deck, Rapiers, marine rifles and armor and so on--to decorate post-apocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2204. <br />
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Image:Wing commander film img3.jpg|Hanging in there<br />
Image:Blaircockpit6.jpg|I'm a fighter pilot in a war zone<br />
Image:Movie behind the scene.jpg|On the outside looking in<br />
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|platform = [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BKJ3EQM/wingcommander-20 MP3 - Click Here to Purchase on Amazon.com]<br />
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==Track List==<br />
{|<br />
|1 <br />
| Overture <br />
| 3:36 <br />
| [[File:WCM-Soundtrack-Overture.mp3]]<br />
|- <br />
|2 <br />
|Pod Scene <br />
|1:53 <br />
|- <br />
|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
|- <br />
|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
|- <br />
|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
|- <br />
|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
|- <br />
|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
|- <br />
|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
|- <br />
|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
|- <br />
|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
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|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
|- <br />
|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
|- <br />
|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
|- <br />
|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
|- <br />
|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
|- <br />
|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
|- <br />
|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
|- <br />
| <br />
|(total time) <br />
|38:22 <br />
|}<br />
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==About the Soundtrack==<br />
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The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
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The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
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The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
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In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
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Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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==Credits:== <br />
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Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
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Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
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Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
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Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
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Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
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Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
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Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
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Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
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Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
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Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
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All Tracks BMI<br />
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Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
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Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
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“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc01.mp2 01. Overture ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc08.mp2 08. Angel's Story ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc11.mp2 11. Hot Dogs ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc16.mp2 16. Kilrathi into Scylla] <br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
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Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
<br />
The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
<br />
Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
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Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
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Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
<br />
On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
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FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
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DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
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The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
<br />
Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
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And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
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Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
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This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
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Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
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Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
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The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
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Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
<br />
Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
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It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
<br />
For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
<br />
Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
<br />
And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
<br />
Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
<br />
Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
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One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
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The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
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The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
<br />
The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
<br />
Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
<br />
Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
<br />
Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
<br />
While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
<br />
It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
<br />
If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
<br />
Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
<br />
The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
<br />
SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
<br />
Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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==Track List==<br />
{|<br />
|1 <br />
| Overture <br />
| 3:36 <br />
| [[file:https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/File:WCM-Soundtrack-Overture.mp3]]<br />
|- <br />
|2 <br />
|Pod Scene <br />
|1:53 <br />
|- <br />
|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
|- <br />
|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
|- <br />
|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
|- <br />
|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
|- <br />
|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
|- <br />
|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
|- <br />
|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
|- <br />
|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
|- <br />
|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
|- <br />
|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
|- <br />
|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
|- <br />
|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
|- <br />
|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
|- <br />
|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
|- <br />
|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
|- <br />
| <br />
|(total time) <br />
|38:22 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==About the Soundtrack==<br />
<br />
The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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<br />
"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
<br />
<br />
The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
<br />
The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
<br />
In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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==Credits:== <br />
<br />
Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
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Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
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Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
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Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
<br />
Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
<br />
Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
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Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
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Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
<br />
Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
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Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
<br />
All Tracks BMI<br />
<br />
Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
<br />
Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
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“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc01.mp2 01. Overture ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc08.mp2 08. Angel's Story ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc11.mp2 11. Hot Dogs ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc16.mp2 16. Kilrathi into Scylla] <br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
<br />
The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
<br />
Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
<br />
Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
<br />
Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
<br />
On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
<br />
FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
<br />
DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
<br />
The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
<br />
Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
<br />
And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
<br />
Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
<br />
Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
<br />
Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
<br />
Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
<br />
Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
<br />
It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
<br />
For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
<br />
Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
<br />
And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
<br />
Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
<br />
Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
<br />
One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
<br />
The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
<br />
The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
<br />
The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
<br />
Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
<br />
Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
<br />
Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
<br />
It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
<br />
If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
<br />
Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
<br />
The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
<br />
SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
<br />
Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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==Track List==<br />
{|<br />
|1 <br />
| Overture <br />
| 3:36 <br />
| [[file:https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/File:WCM-Soundtrack-Overture.mp3<br />
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|- <br />
|2 <br />
|Pod Scene <br />
|1:53 <br />
|- <br />
|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
|- <br />
|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
|- <br />
|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
|- <br />
|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
|- <br />
|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
|- <br />
|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
|- <br />
|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
|- <br />
|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
|- <br />
|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
|- <br />
|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
|- <br />
|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
|- <br />
|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
|- <br />
|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
|- <br />
|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
|- <br />
|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
|- <br />
| <br />
|(total time) <br />
|38:22 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==About the Soundtrack==<br />
<br />
The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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<br />
"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
<br />
<br />
The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
<br />
The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
<br />
In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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<br />
==Credits:== <br />
<br />
Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
<br />
Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
<br />
Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
<br />
Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
<br />
Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
<br />
Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
<br />
Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
<br />
Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
<br />
Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
<br />
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
<br />
All Tracks BMI<br />
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Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
<br />
Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
<br />
“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc01.mp2 01. Overture ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc08.mp2 08. Angel's Story ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc11.mp2 11. Hot Dogs ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc16.mp2 16. Kilrathi into Scylla] <br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
<br />
The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
<br />
Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
<br />
Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
<br />
Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
<br />
On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
<br />
FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
<br />
DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
<br />
The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
<br />
Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
<br />
And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
<br />
Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
<br />
Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
<br />
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<br />
Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
<br />
Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
<br />
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<br />
The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
<br />
Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
<br />
Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
<br />
It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
<br />
For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
<br />
Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
<br />
And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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<br />
Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
<br />
Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
<br />
Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
<br />
One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
<br />
The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
<br />
The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
<br />
The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
<br />
Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
<br />
Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
<br />
Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
<br />
It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
<br />
If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
<br />
Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
<br />
The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
<br />
SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
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<br />
Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
<br />
Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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==Track List==<br />
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| Overture <br />
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|1:53 <br />
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|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
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|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
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|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
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|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
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|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
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|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
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|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
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|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
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|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
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|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
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|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
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|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
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|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
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|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
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|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
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==About the Soundtrack==<br />
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The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
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The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
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The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
<br />
In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
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Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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==Credits:== <br />
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Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
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Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
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Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
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Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
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Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
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Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
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Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
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Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
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Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
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Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
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All Tracks BMI<br />
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Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
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Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
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“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
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Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
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The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
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Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
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Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
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Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
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On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
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FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
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DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
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The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
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Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
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And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
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Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
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This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
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Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
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Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
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The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
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Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
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Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
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It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
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For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
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Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
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And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
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Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
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Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
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One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
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The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
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The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
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The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
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Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
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Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
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Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
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Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
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It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
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If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
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Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
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Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
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The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
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SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
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Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
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Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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==Track List==<br />
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| Overture <br />
| 3:36 <br />
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|2 <br />
|Pod Scene <br />
|1:53 <br />
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|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
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|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
|- <br />
|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
|- <br />
|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
|- <br />
|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
|- <br />
|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
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|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
|- <br />
|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
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|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
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|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
|- <br />
|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
|- <br />
|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
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|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
|- <br />
|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
|- <br />
|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
|- <br />
| <br />
|(total time) <br />
|38:22 <br />
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==About the Soundtrack==<br />
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The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
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The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
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The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
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In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
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Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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==Credits:== <br />
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Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
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Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
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Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
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Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
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Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
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Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
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Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
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Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
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Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
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Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
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All Tracks BMI<br />
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Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
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Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
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“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc01.mp2 01. Overture ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc08.mp2 08. Angel's Story ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc11.mp2 11. Hot Dogs ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc16.mp2 16. Kilrathi into Scylla] <br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
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Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
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The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
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Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
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Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
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Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
<br />
On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
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FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
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DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
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The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
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The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
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Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
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And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
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Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
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This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
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Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
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Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
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Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
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The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
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Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
<br />
Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
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It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
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For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
<br />
Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
<br />
And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
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Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
<br />
Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
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<br />
So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
<br />
Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
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One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
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The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
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The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
<br />
The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
<br />
Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
<br />
Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
<br />
Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
<br />
It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
<br />
If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
<br />
Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
<br />
The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
<br />
SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
<br />
Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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|Pod Scene <br />
|1:53 <br />
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|3 <br />
|Torpedo Kilrathi <br />
|3:31 <br />
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|4 <br />
|Pilgrims <br />
|1:50 <br />
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|5 <br />
|Rescued <br />
|0:55 <br />
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|6 <br />
|Into The Quasar <br />
|2:45<br />
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|7 <br />
|Bad Decision/Blair <br />
|1:27 <br />
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|8 <br />
|Angel’s Story <br />
|1:47 <br />
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|9 <br />
|The Fleet <br />
|1:07 <br />
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|10 <br />
|Briefing/Tricked <br />
|2:15 <br />
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|11 <br />
|Hot Dogs <br />
|1:21 <br />
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|12 <br />
|Diligent Arrives <br />
|2:34 <br />
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|13 <br />
|The Gift/Skipper Missile <br />
|3:26<br />
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|14 <br />
|Kilrathi Battle <br />
|1:40 <br />
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|15 <br />
|The Big Battle <br />
|2:27<br />
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|16 <br />
|Kilrathi Into Scylla <br />
|2:28 <br />
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|17 <br />
|Big Damn Ending <br />
|2:09 <br />
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==About the Soundtrack==<br />
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The following information is from the Wing Commander [http://www.sonicimages.com/Action.Lasso?-Response=%2f2001%2fsub%2fmisc%2fdetail.htm&-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-Database=Products.fp5&-KeyValue=125 Soundtrack Website]<br />
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<br />
"Wing Commander"<br><br />
Theme by David Arnold<br><br />
Original Score by Kevin Kiner <br />
<br />
<br />
The fully orchestral "Wing Commander" soundtrack is a team effort by composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner, who together have worked on the music for several television projects, including the science-fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and "The Visitor." The two also have established solo careers. Arnold has scored the films "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "Stargate" and the recent James Bond adventure, "Tomorrow Never Dies." Among Kiner's composing credits are "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest," "Leprechaun" and "Land of the Lost." <br />
<br />
The film, based on the best-selling "Wing Commander" computer game series, combines state-of-the-art special effects, explosive action and a romantic story line as it follows the exploits of rebellious rookie space pilot Christopher Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr. of "She's All That"). In a heroic quest to fend off an impending alien invasion, Blair is joined by fellow maverick pilots Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Matthew Lillard of "Scream") and Jeanette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows of "Circle of Friends"). "Wing Commander" also stars Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita" and "Goldeneye"), David Suchet ("Executive Decision") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Air Force One" and "Das Boot"). <br />
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When I set out to make "Wing Commander," I en-visioned a classic World War II film as its model. Except that it was set in space, 500 years from now. This motif played strongly in the design and look of the picture. I also wanted it to play strongly in the score. I wanted the music to evoke some of the glorious old war film scores; full of heart, melody and heroic acts. "633 Squadron," "The Dam Busters" and other such classics came to my mind. When I first talked to David and Kevin about the score, they were in tune from step one. <br />
<br />
In fact, my first conversation with David had him citing classic war film scores as a jumping- off point - and that was before I'd even pitched him on my 'WWII' in space concept! From that point on, I am happy to say I was in good hands. From hearing the first temps to being blown away by the orchestra on the scoring stage at Air Lyndhurst, I was constantly surprised and impressed. The sound they've managed to capture evokes epic movies from the fifties and sixties. It's some of the best space music I've heard, right up there with the classics we've all grown up with. The film required many things of the score, bravery, guts, youthfulness, mystery, danger, loss and redemption. David and Kevin delivered all that and hummable melodies into the bargain! (I guarantee you'll be whistling the title cue as you leave the cinema.) The film grows as a result. Bravo! Here's to working together again. <br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director<br />
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==Credits:== <br />
<br />
Score Produced by David Arnold and Kevin Kiner<br />
<br />
Album Produced by Kevin Kiner and Mark Evans<br />
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Executive Album Producers: Todd Moyer and Chris Roberts<br />
<br />
Executive Album Producers for Sonic Images: Ford A. Thaxton, Brad Pressman and Rudy Panke<br />
<br />
Music Supervisor: Barklie K. Griggs<br />
<br />
Music Coordinator: Chris Kinsman<br />
<br />
Music Editor: Dina Eaton<br />
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Legal Representation: Richard Thompson<br />
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Orchestrated and Conducted by Nicholas Dodd<br />
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Orchestra Conductor: Isobel Griffiths<br />
<br />
Score Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Foster and Mark Evans<br />
<br />
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London<br />
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Album Mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland (Tacoma, Washington)<br />
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All Tracks BMI<br />
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Design: Wolfgang Fenchel<br />
<br />
Computer Images by Digital Anvil<br />
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“Wing Commander” Logo courtesy of 20th Century-Fox<br />
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==Samples: ==<br />
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[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc01.mp2 01. Overture ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc06.mp2 06. Into the Quasar ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc08.mp2 08. Angel's Story ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc11.mp2 11. Hot Dogs ]<br><br />
[http://download.wcnews.com/music/wcm/wc16.mp2 16. Kilrathi into Scylla] <br />
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==Reviews:== <br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander is, simply, a score which is likely to go on long after the movie itself has faded into oblivion. It's<br />
not a tremendous score, but it is huge, energized and propulsive - drawing on many of the sensibilities which<br />
make its two composers so good to begin with.<br />
<br />
The Wing Commander score is richly textured and incredibly layered, various melody lines dodging in and out of<br />
(and running beneath) action motifs create a sense of both consistent style within the score, and an ever<br />
changing tapestry in it's presentation. It's got a specific sound, but it's varied enough so it doesn't become<br />
boring.<br />
<br />
Wing Commander's theme was composed by David Arnold (who, I am told, also served as something of a<br />
"supervisor" for the rest of the score). One may remember Arnold's work from Stargate, Independence Day, and<br />
the amazingly suave and cool score for Tomorrow Never Dies. In fact, Wing Commander's score manifests many<br />
of Tomorrow Never Dies' better sensibilities - if you dug Arnold's work in TND, you'll probably get a kick out of<br />
WC.<br />
<br />
Arnold associate Kevin Kiner is credited with composing the WC score itself. Kiner has scored the Emmerich<br />
and Devlin series The Visitor (for which Arnold wrote the theme show's music and score for the first episode) and<br />
Stargate SG-1 (Arnold's theme is cannibalized and used throughout the series). In other words, Kiner knows how<br />
to work with Arnold as a guideline, and how to integrate his own "sound" with Arnolds' unique style. The result is<br />
a nice mix between the two composers, as Kiner's work is not entirely imitative, but recognizable enough as not<br />
to clash with with the efforts of the composer he is trying to complement.<br />
<br />
Richly textured and densely layered, Arnold and Kiner's Wing Commander score should hit stores on March 9.<br />
Having not seen the film, I can not vouch for how well this score will work with the imagery it's meant to<br />
accompany. But on its own, this is a fun and exhilarating listen which may well become a cult favorite in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
<br />
Glen Oliver<br><br />
AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS<br><br />
February 24, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander: (Kevin Kiner/David Arnold) As action-packed as they come, the combined efforts of Kevin <br />
Kiner and David Arnold have given Wing Commander a dose of high-powered orchestral music in a size that I <br />
haven't frankly heard since Independence Day. From the opening brass salute in Arnold's overture to the <br />
"Big Damn Ending" (as they put it), complete with all the bells, whistles, and synth chorals, this score will keep <br />
you on your toes. The music isn't spectacularly original. It is, though, pure fun. Its magnificent bombast is <br />
predictable and simplistic in parts, but it sure as hell is fun to listen to at amplified volumes.<br />
<br />
On the whole, the score for Wing Commander surprised me. I am usually very skeptical about scores that <br />
result from films with roots in video games (take Mortal Kombat, for instance). But Kiner and Arnold seem <br />
to work together as a very effective team, and I look forward to their future collaborations. <br />
Wing Commander isn't a score that will be remembered in the history of film music as anything significant, <br />
but it makes for some great fun when you're in the right mood for exhilarating space adventure music. ***<br />
<br />
FILMTRACKS.COM<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The film's live action was filmed on soundstages in Luxembourg, and the quality on view suggests that the <br />
grand duchy's production capabilities are noteworthy. Tech credits are wide-ranging and generally above par, <br />
with special commendation going to Thierry Arbogast's smart camerawork and Kevin Kiner's rousing score.<br />
<br />
DAILY VARIETY<br><br />
April 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two rules when it comes to computer games and films seem to be: 1. If a film becomes a big success it should<br />
be made into a game. 2. If a game becomes a big success it should be made into a film. Wing Commander: The<br />
Movie is the latest consequence of the latter rule. The original Wing Commander game has sold over 1.5 million<br />
copies, and has been followed by several sequels, all very technically advanced and with actors like Marc Hamill<br />
and Thomas F. Wilson doing the acting in the video sequences. So of course Hollywood had to make a film<br />
version.<br />
<br />
The scores for the video games were composed by George Oldziey, but when the games were to be turned into<br />
film, the job went to composer Kevin Kiner, probably most famous for his collaboration with David Arnold on the<br />
score for the television series Stargate SG-1, for which Arnold provided the themes and Kiner wrote the actual<br />
score. And for Wing Commander they continue their collaboration in the same manner. David Arnold has written a<br />
very grand theme, which serves as the basis for Kiner's score.<br />
<br />
Sonic Images' press release states that the music is "composed in the epic tradition of John Williams' Star Wars<br />
films." Let us say that the score is composed in the epic tradition of David Arnold's Independence Day instead.<br />
Because like Independence Day the score for Wing Commander is incredibly bombastic, grand and totally over<br />
the top. With orchestrations, by Nicholas Dodd, favouring the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra big<br />
time this is a score that will rock your house. Dodd also orchestrated Arnold's massive score for Independence<br />
Day, and as these two scores, by two different composers, are so similiar in its sound and style (cues like "The<br />
Gift/Skipper Missile" could very well be used in ID 4) one wonders how much of the bombastic sound we owe to<br />
the orchestrator.<br />
<br />
And it is the immense testosterone driven action music that dominates the music throughout the album from the<br />
swell "Overture" to the last cue "Big Damn Ending" - a very suitable title - although a couple of cues, like "Angel's<br />
Story", gives you a chance to relax and prepare for the next battle. All in all Wing Commander is an enjoyable<br />
score, and should appeal to you if Arnold's huge orchestral sound is what makes you drivel.<br />
<br />
Andreas Lindahl<br><br />
SCORE! Soundtrack Reviews<br><br />
April 1999<br><br />
(reprinted in FILM SCORE MONTHLY, June 1999)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This film received quite a score! Not from critics or the box office or from me (I fell asleep in a movie theatre for<br />
the first time!), but from co-composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner. The main theme is memorable but not quite<br />
reaching the "corny" level that Arnold's main theme for ID4 did. The score is not all bombast either, but is set off<br />
by some nice softer melodies and ethereal motifs. This score certainly pays homage to the likes of Horner's<br />
Star Trek II score on occasion, but not to the degree of earning the dreaded "rip off" designation. While not as<br />
memorable as the previously mentioned Wrath of Kahn score, it is a decent effort by the score-duo and a good<br />
17 track release from Sonic Images. Rating: 7/10.<br />
<br />
Christopher Coleman<br><br />
TRACKSOUNDS<br><br />
May 9, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander opens with a barnstorming brassy “Overture” by David Arnold, easily as expressive as his work<br />
on Independence Day and Stargate. It's military flavour is carried over into the rest of the CD by Kevin Kiner,<br />
who recreates a creditable facsimile of Arnold's epic style. Bold and stirring themes abound, with occasional<br />
synth embellishment. The film made little impression when it was released in the US, but it would be a shame if<br />
the soundtrack was similarly neglected.<br />
<br />
Julian Knott<br><br />
SHIVERS! Magazine, Issue 66<br><br />
May 11, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The latest release from Sonic Images is Wing Commander... a new sci-fi/adventure film based on the best-selling<br />
computer game and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Matthew Lillard and Saffron Burrows, with dependable support from<br />
David Warner and Jurgen Prochnow. According to director Chris Roberts’ liner notes, although the film has a<br />
futuristic setting, he wanted the music to “evoke some of the glorious odl war film scores,” such as 633 Squadron<br />
and The Dam Busters. Well, I don’t know if that’s quite what composers David Arnold and Kevin Kiner came up<br />
with (I would liken it more to Basil Poledouris’ Starship Troopers), but they did realise Roberts’ aesthetic of music<br />
“full of heart, melody and heroic acts.” Arnold and Kiner of course collaborated previously on TV shows The<br />
Visitor and Stargate SG-1. Here Arnold has come up with a splendid matrial main theme, heard to best effect in<br />
“Overture,” and Kiner integrates it to good effect throughout the best action moments of the score, particularly in<br />
“Diligent Arrives,” “Kilrathi Battle” and “Kilrathi Into Scylla,” but there is still plenty of exciting action in “Torpedo<br />
Kilrathi,” “Into The Quasar,” “The Fleet,” “Skipper Missile” and “The Big Battle.” And there are gentler moments<br />
too, particularly fine in “Pod Scene,” “Pilgrims,” with its sampled otherworldly male choir, and “Big Damn Ending.”<br />
Interestingly, “Hot Dogs” follows Joel Goldsmith’s approach to Kull The Conqueror in its use of electric guitar and<br />
drumkit alongside the orchestra, but aside from an electronic pulse on one or two of the tracks, the score is very<br />
much orchestral, with David Arnold’s regular sidekick Nicholas Dodd at the helm, and at 37 minutes this<br />
soundtrack doesn’t outstay its welcome.<br />
<br />
Jeff Hall<br><br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM MUSIC BULLETIN, Issue 106<br><br />
May 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Guilty pleasure time, guys. This is a score with almost no redeeming qualities as far as art - it's just loud,<br />
bombastic, brassy... and a hell of a lot of fun. Further, for all of us who haven't had a new Dave Arnold score since<br />
Tomorrow Never Dies, this will go a long way towards satisfying us. Either Kiner really, REALLY worked to sound<br />
like Arnold, or there was more of a collaboration here than one might first think. <br />
<br />
Basically, this CD has 30 minutes of bombastic, militaristic tonal testosterone, and about 7 minutes of assorted<br />
"quiet" music. The main theme is everything you might expect, basically a huge brassy fanfare which is<br />
emminently hummable. The overture is perhaps the highlight, running the theme through various musical wringers<br />
like Arnold tends to do, like in Stargate. The main theme, however, is basically the only theme to speak of. The<br />
rest is huge action music in a style almost exactly like the loudest parts of ID4 - in fact, Kiner borrows a few<br />
arpeggios and instrument runs here and there in the climactic battles. The big problem there is that Kiner isn't<br />
quite as good as Arnold. ID4 always blows me away when I listen to those battles because of how staggeringly<br />
complex they are - I can pick out at least four seperate melodic lines going in opposite directions, yet somehow it<br />
always stays together and doesn't turn into cacophany. Kiner can't do it that well, but luckily he errs on the side<br />
of caution. The battles don't sound quite as big, but that's better than if they degenerated into a huge musical<br />
mess. <br />
<br />
It occasionally has breaks in the action for quieter moments - “Pilgrims,” “Pod Scene,” “The Gift.” These, for the<br />
most part, don't really work. They're mostly low underscore, although the “Pilgrim” track is pretty nice. It's good<br />
to have a breather, but the CD really comes to a halt along with the action. <br />
<br />
For the most part, it's big orchestral stuff. In a couple cues, like "Briefing / Tricked" he brings in some odd<br />
synth\electronic noises. I'm not entirely sure why they're there, but they don't entirely fail. They do give it a nice<br />
beat. More interesting, "Hot Dogs" has a screaming guitar in there, and while it might annoy purists, it does work<br />
fairly well. After all, the track is for a couple hotshots showing off and doing stupid stunts. (and the track rather<br />
reminds me of "Backseat Driver" in Tomorrow Never Dies)<br />
<br />
Finally, on a more personal note, this really DOES sound like Wing Commander music. I've been a fan of the<br />
series since the week the first game came out, way back in '90, and I've dutifully bought every game since. I<br />
don't know if the composers listened to the game scores by The Fatman and George Oldziey (the latter is good<br />
enough to warrant a CD of his own), but it terms of sound and mood, this is VERY believable as a WC score.<br />
Maybe it's just Chris Robert's constant desire for a retro-WWII sound. I was rather hoping against hope that<br />
somewhere in there, they might work in the original theme, but it didn't happen. Oh well. <br />
<br />
And that's really all there is to say about this one, except maybe to mention this is another case where the score<br />
is far better than the movie. It's a lot like Starship Troopers last year in terms of content and quality. If you want<br />
your scores to have some substance, go buy a Thomas Newman CD. If you want something really brassy and<br />
really loud to crank up on nights you want to make the windows rattle, this will fit the bill quite well, probably better<br />
than any score since StarTroops. And Arnold fans simply have to pick it up. But then, you probably have already.<br />
<br />
Jason Blalock<br><br />
SCORELAND<br><br />
May 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Music from the pen David Arnold has been less than profuse recently. The ginormous flop of Godzilla resulted in<br />
his cracking score never being officially released, meaning that the last proper Arnold album to hit the streets was<br />
the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies way back in December 1997 (although he did contribute some<br />
thematic material to the TV shows Stargate SG1 and The Visitor). Fortunately, he's back with a vengeance in<br />
1999, collaborating with composer Kevin Kiner on Wing Commander, the live-action science fiction epic based on<br />
the hit interactive video game. Directed by Chris Roberts, with a gaggle of hot teen actors including Freddie<br />
Prinze Jr. (from I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Matthew Lillard (from Scream) starring alongside such<br />
stalwarts as David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow and David Suchet, the filmmakers have announced that it will be a<br />
gung-ho action-fest in the Star Wars mould, with state of the art computer effect and alien invaders aplenty. We<br />
shall see. One of the benefits of having movies such as Wing Commander, though, is that they more often than<br />
not come with scores like this one. Officially, David Arnold wrote the Wing Commander Theme, and Kiner the<br />
underscore, but in truth the Arnold hallmarks are stamped all over the place. Upon first impressions, there's not a<br />
lot more you can say about Wing Commander except "wow". It's a score set firmly in the grandest of grand<br />
traditions, and from the first bar of the 'Overture', you know what kind of experience you're in for. The orchestral<br />
bombast of the music hits you smack between the eyes and never lets up for the entire 37 minute running time.<br />
As good as the main theme sounds, it nevertheless plays like "David Arnold's Greatest Hits", and this is the only<br />
drawback to the album as a whole. It's almost as though he took all the best bits from Independence Day,<br />
Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, jiggled them around a bit and distilled them down into a single, generic patriotic<br />
theme. Don't get me wrong - I like the theme immensely - but I just feel that Arnold could have taken the<br />
opportunity to do something a little differently this time. Having said that, the action sequences are quite<br />
stunning, especially 'Torpedo Kilrathi', 'The Fleet', 'Diligent Arrives', 'Skipper Missile' and the four conclusive<br />
cues - 'Kilrathi Battle', 'The Big Battle', 'Kilrathi Into Scylla' and the appropriately-titled 'Big Damn Ending'. All of<br />
these feature the familiar throbbing brasses, heavy percussion and wild string work which have dominated<br />
Arnold's previous works. Undoubtedly, these half-dozen or so cues make the score an essential purchase, and<br />
score fans with a soft spot for any of David Arnold's earlier works will certainly not be disappointed. The one<br />
thing that initially worried me about Wing Commander, though, was whether Kevin Kiner's work would stick out like<br />
a sore thumb. Without wanting to be unkind, Kiner is hardly a major league composer (his most high profile<br />
assignment to date being the hideous John Leguizamo comedy vehicle The Pest), but I'm delighted to say that<br />
he acquits himself marvellously here. His work sits seamlessly alongside Arnold's, so much so that it's really<br />
quite difficult to judge exactly who composed what. Although certain moments of the underscore do have an<br />
unmistakable Arnold-esque quality (like 'Into The Quasar', which is a virtual ID4 clone), other parts are<br />
completely new and original, proving that Kiner is a name to watch in the future. Kiner's most memorable<br />
contribution is the lovely secondary theme, a slow moving synth-and-string affair which makes good use of a<br />
sampled male choir, and can be heard prominently in cues such as 'Pod Scene', 'Pilgrims', 'Angel's Story' and<br />
'The Gift'. In addition, 'Hot Dogs' includes an electric guitar solo over a pepped-up rock version of Arnold's theme<br />
which makes for an unexpected but interesting little diversion. As ever, the quality of Sonic Images' packaging<br />
and inserts is good - kudos again to Messrs. Thaxton and Pressman - and it is only the slight over-familiarity of<br />
the music which stops it from getting top marks. I always knew I liked David Arnold's music. I want to hear more<br />
of Kevin Kiner's now.<br />
<br />
Jonathan Broxton<br><br />
MOVIE MUSIC UK<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So another game becomes reality in a film environment, and from what the opening track contains it’s exciting,<br />
bombastic, melodic and decidedly fun. For those who don’t know Wing Commander dates back to the mid 80s and<br />
Origin Systems who created the first game and the rather nasty Kilrathi race out to kill all sundry who get in their <br />
way.<br />
<br />
Whilst David Arnold provides the themes it’s Stargate SG-1 contributor Kevin Kiner that employs the orchestra to<br />
full effect and weaves the score so expertly. The first track 1: ‘Overture’ unveils Arnold’s primary theme and no<br />
more than the main theme itself which is a glorious brassy proud motif and very, very good indeed. Tracks 2, 3<br />
continue the trend of bombast with no let up, however 4: ‘Pilgrims’ lessens the intensity on a delightfully sad<br />
arrangement on strings describing the race of pioneers and navigators, sadly discriminated against within the<br />
Confederation.<br />
<br />
One particular highlight is 12: ‘Diligent Arrives,’ as we get a restatement of the main theme and a lovely <br />
descending motif on the brass as the merchant ship Diligent arrives into the action.<br />
<br />
The fast action cues soon return though with 10: ‘Briefing/Tricked’ with a synth beat bouncing the score along at<br />
a heady pace though it’s 11: ‘Hot Dogs,’ with its fast synth echoes, 13: ‘The Gift/Skipper Missle’ (very loud), 14:<br />
‘Kilrathi Battle’ and 15: ‘The Big Battle’ that really let rip with the orchestra on quite a grand fashion as the war<br />
rages in full intensity. For those that like action cues this is seventh heaven, for those that don’t you’re really not<br />
going to like this at all.<br />
<br />
The final two cues 16: ‘Kilrathi Into Scylla’ with its frenetic brass and triumphant ending on the main theme and<br />
rolling brass statements, and the 17: ‘Big Damn Ending’ where a stately build up on the strings leads to a lovely<br />
brassy conclusion, end the disc off in major fashion.<br />
<br />
The booklet is quite acceptable, and though the disc does suffer from a few short cues which just get you going<br />
and stop its quite a highlight in the collection more so from the excellent themes that are utilised within it!<br />
Rating: ***1/2.<br />
<br />
Russell C. Thewlis<br><br />
LEGEND Magazine, Issue 28<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Fans of David Arnold will find much to enjoy in this new score by Kevin Kiner. Although Arnold is credited as<br />
writing the theme, his influence and that of his orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, is very much present throughout the<br />
whole score.<br />
<br />
Arnold’s theme is similar to that for Independence Day; it’s big, ballsy and impossibly patriotic. It would be quite<br />
at home in any World War II film you care to mention. The theme is unleashed in the ‘Overture,’ which is one of the<br />
finest pieces of music you’ll hear this year. The rest of the score is pretty much what you would expect. Wing<br />
Commander is a huge in-your-face, brass ripping action score in the Arnold style, and as such makes for a <br />
rolicking listen. Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Paul Place<br><br />
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
An identity crisis afflicts Kevin Kiner’s score to Wing Commander (Sonic Images). David Arnold is credited with <br />
the main theme here, but the rousing style of Independence Day is all over this CD. Kiner does the best job at<br />
hiding his musical voice since Joel McNeely’s spot-on impersonation of Jerry Goldsmith for Air Force One. The<br />
difference here is that Arnold isn’t listed as a co-composer. But that doesn’t stop Wing Commander from being<br />
good, rousing fun, its musical space battles fashioned in the gritty style of World War II actioners.<br />
<br />
Daniel Schweiger<br><br />
VENICE Magazine<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While the Wing Commander movie may have turned out to be nothing less then bad filmmaking at its best (or worst<br />
depending on how you look at it), the score turned out to be pretty good. Not that it is a masterpiece of music, but<br />
more in that it is one of the most fun scores to listen to that I’ve heard in a long time. <br />
<br />
It helps in that my favorite "young buck" composer, David Arnold, wrote the main theme that keeps in the same<br />
style as Independence Day. Arnold scored the first track, which introduces the main theme and spins in through<br />
a couple of different renditions. Kevin Kiner, who has worked with Arnold before and generated Arnold-type music<br />
for Stargate SG-1, composed the rest of the score. Fortunately for us, Kiner continually uses the main theme and<br />
expands on it throughout the rest of the score. Action music is what this album has going for it. Yes, there are<br />
breaks from it here and there, but even though Kiner’s quieter cues aren't too bad, they're nothing special. Some<br />
people have expressed annoyance at the guitar featured in track 11, but I found it to be acceptable and in<br />
keeping with the onscreen action. <br />
<br />
If you’re an Arnold fan, or like the loud, brassy sci-fi music of types like ID4 or Stargate, then this album is for<br />
you. It may not be groundbreaking, emotionally moving, or cutting-edge, but it is sure a lot of fun to listen to.<br />
Rating: ***.<br />
<br />
Gary Huff<br><br />
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW CENTRAL<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Wing Commander can be considered a revalation! This is a highlight in sci-fi film scores this year. This title gets<br />
alot of airplay on my program, and listeners are calling in. They love it!<br />
<br />
Arthur Szabo<br><br />
RADIO SON REGHIN (Romania)<br><br />
June 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
David Arnold is not a man who is easily swayed into doing many scores in a year and so only his talents as a<br />
tunesmith were called into action for this score to the movie of the computer game. Wing Commander makes a <br />
better concept for a movie than most computer games, it has to be said. The original game had long opening and<br />
cut sequences with real actors and even had a perfectly servicable score. In fact, I'd have been more than<br />
happy to hear orchestral versions of the in game music. However, David Arnold was asked and if they either<br />
couldn't pay his fee or Arnold didn't want to write the entire score, he got to write the tune and Kiner wrote the<br />
rest. It has to be said that the Overture composed entirely by Arnold isn't one of his more memorable efforts.<br />
There is plenty in common with Independence Day but just isn't nearly so likely to stick in the mind. <br />
<br />
The rest of the score alternates between slightly non-descript, but carried along by the sheer scale and momentum<br />
of the thing action cues and the odd more lush romantic moment. Tracks such as Angel's Story feature sections<br />
with synth choir and quiet orchestral interludes that serve to succesfully break up the action, but don't really have<br />
strong enough themes to keep them alive. The lack of anything memorable is the bane of most of the score to be<br />
honest. I really thought that Arnold would come up with something like his ID4 march tunes or his epic <br />
Stargate effort, but it this is not to be. Kiner's music sounds a bit like Arnold's music, with sections of The Fleet<br />
being especially close to Independence Day, but there are no set pieces that stick in the mind. If Kiner was a<br />
decent tunesmith, he'd certainly have no trouble getting work since films these days are looking out for exciting<br />
orchestral efforts with the occasional synth bit (such as those in Briefing/Tricked). <br />
<br />
I can't complain too much since it is a very enjoyable score, but if I want some Arnold, I'll stick to his original<br />
efforts. Hopefully Kiner will get a few more decent films to have a stab at and with some sharpening of his<br />
composing abilites could go far indeed. Thanks to Sonic Images for releasing the score since it is worth a listen<br />
and if you like big orchestral overkill then it's very well performed and arranged, just not ground breaking and<br />
doesn't really showcase a new talent very well since Kiner's own style (if he has one) is mainly buried in Arnold-<br />
isms or more non-descript stuff.<br />
<br />
SOUNDTRACK EXPRESS<br><br />
July 6, 1999<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Composer Kevin Kiner, with David Arnold’s theme, pulls back the throttle and let’s the space war music rip! Over-<br />
powering brass work with military drums attacking, equals up to some of the best space battle music in a long time. <br />
You can hear David Arnold’s influence throughout the disk’s running time (echoes of ID4 and GODZILLA), but <br />
that’s not knocking Kevin Kiner’s contribution. He makes the horns shout and scream, the drums and cymbals <br />
clash with unbridled enthusiasm. I don’t know if the film is any good, but the music from WING COMMANDER is a <br />
blast! <br />
<br />
Terry Wickham<br><br />
Fears Magazine<br><br />
January 2000<br />
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**English Dolby Surround<br />
**Italian Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Itallan Dolby Surround<br />
**Italian subtitles<br />
<br />
<br />
[[file:Italiandvdcover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Italian DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Spanish DVD Region 2==<br />
<br />
*FEATURES:<br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1) 16x9<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**German Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English, German, Spanish (Castellano) subtitles. <br />
**Theatrical Trailer<br />
**Interactive Menus<br />
**Featurette and Interviews with cast and crew<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander DVD spanish cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Spanish-vcd-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish VCD]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Spanish-vcd-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish VCD back]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Spanish DVD Region 2 - Ver. 2==<br />
**PAL<br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**Production Notes<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Spanish (Castellano) Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English and Spanish (Castellano) subtitles<br />
**Scene Selection<br />
**TV spots and trailers<br />
**language and subtitle selection <br />
**technical, artistic and dubbing sheet<br />
**production design<br />
**featurette<br />
**video games in the cinema<br />
**Director and cast filmography <br />
**recommendations<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm spanish dvd 2 cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD 2 Cover]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm spanish dvd 2 back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD 2 back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.fr/Wing-Commander-Tcheky-Karyo/dp/B001JPBA2M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310968159&sr=8-1 French DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2009/01/06 <br />
**PAL <br />
**French Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**French Subtitles <br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1 - 16/9 anamorphic)<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:French_wcmdvd3.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| French DVD Cover]]<br />
|[[file:French vhs.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| French VHS Cover]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Netherlands DVD Region 2==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wcdvd2006cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Netherlands Region 2 DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.de/Wing-Commander-Freddie-Prinze-Jr/dp/B000055WK0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1310968472&sr=8-3 German DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2001/05/30 <br />
**PAL<br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**German Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English Subtitles<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:German_movie_cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| German Cover]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German VHS]]<br />
|[[file:German DVD doublefeature titanAE wing commander.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German Double-Feature DVD]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-vcd-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German VCD ]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-vcd-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| German VCD back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC-DVD-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84/dp/B00005HUZR/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1311065191&sr=1-1 Japanese DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2001/03/23<br />
**NTSC <br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**Language: English, Japanese<br />
**Subtitles: English, Japanese<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Japanese_cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover]] <br />
|[[File:JapaneseDVD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 2]] <br />
|[[file:Japanese VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese VHS Cover ]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 3 ]]<br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD2b.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 3]] <br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD cover2c.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD ]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Swedish DVD Region 2==<br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1 - 16/9 anamorphic)<br />
**English Dolby Surround<br />
**Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian subtitles (Subtitles cannot be turned off)<br />
**Trailers<br />
**Making of featurette<br />
**Spotlights from the movie set<br />
<br />
<br />
[[file:Swedish DVD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Swedish DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Finnish VHS==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander Finnish-VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Finnish VHS]]<br />
<br />
==Danish DVD Region 2==<br />
*PAL<br />
*16:9 Anamorphic - 2.35:1 letterboxed<br />
*Audio: English Dolby Surround<br />
*Subtitles: Danish, Norwegian, Finnish Swedish<br />
*Trailer<br />
*Making-of<br />
*On Location<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander DanishDVD cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Danish DVD]]<br />
<br />
==[http://www.mangpong.co.th/eshop/product-detail.php?id=004719 Thai DVD Region 3]==<br />
<br />
**Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (Protection Squadron through the universe)<br />
**Standard 1.33:1 (4:3)<br />
**ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 <br />
**THAI: Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Subtitles: English, Thai<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Thai DVD]]<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 2]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Thai_DVD2_back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 2 back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai_DVD3_back.jpg.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 3 back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai VCD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai VCD]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Greek DVD==<br />
*ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ<br />
*DVD Release Date: 17/04/2000<br />
*Distributor: Odeon<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm greek dvd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Greek DVD]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm greek dvd back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Greek DVD back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Brazilian DVD==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Brazilian_logo.png|thumb|none|x150px| Brazilian movie Logo]]<br />
|[[file:Brazilian_wcmovie_vhs.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Brazialian VHS cover]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Slovenian VHS==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander Slovenian VHS cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Slovenian VHS]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Hungarian VHS==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wcm_vhs_cover_hungarian.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Hungarian VHS]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Hungarian DVD==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wcm hungarian dvd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Hungarian DVD insert - Fanmade]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Polish VHS==<br />
**Wing Commander - Nieprzerwana akcja<br />
**Distributor: Imperial Entertainment<br />
<br />
[[File:Wcm_polish_vhs.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Polish VHS]]<br />
[[File:Wcm_polish_vhs2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Polish VHS]]<br />
<br />
==Turkish VCD==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Turkish_wcm_vcd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Turkish VCD Cover]]<br />
|[[File:Turkish wcm vcd2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Turkish VCD Cover]]<br />
|[[File:Turkish wcm vcd3.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Turkish VCD Cover]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Turkish wcm vhs.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Turkish VHS Cover]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Hong Kong DVD==<br />
<br />
[[file:Hongkongdvd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Hong Kong DVD cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Chinese== <br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander-chinese VCD-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander-Chinese VCD back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD back]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Chinese-VCD2-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD 2 ]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Chinese-VCD2-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD 2 back]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm chinese VCD3.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD3]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm-vcd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Chinese VCD4]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
===Chinese/Taiwanese DVD===<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm_taiwanese_dvd_front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Taiwanese DVD front]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm_taiwanese_dvd_back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Taiwanese DVD Back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chinese/Taiwanese Bluray===<br />
<br />
Details:<br />
*Shindler Bluray<br />
**Catalogue Code: LZ-7198<br />
*Audio<br />
**English DTS-HD5.1 <br />
**Mandarin Dolby trueHD5.1 <br />
**English Dolby trueHD5.1<br />
*Subtitles<br />
**Simplified Chinese <br />
**Traditional Chinese <br />
**English<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm_taiwanese_bluray.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Taiwanese Bluray]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Russian DVD - Region 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
Details:<br />
*Number of Disks: 1<br />
*Format: PAL, Widescreen 16:9<br />
*Audio<br />
**Russian Dolby Digital 5.1 <br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Polish Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
*Subtitles<br />
**Russian<br />
**English<br />
**Polish<br />
<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Russian dvd cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Russian DVD Cover]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Russian-bootleg-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Russian Bootleg]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Russian-bootleg-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Russian Bootleg back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Croatian VHS==<br />
<br />
<br />
Details:<br />
*Distributor: VTI<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm croatian vhs cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Croatian VHS Cover]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Other cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|???]]<br />
|[[file:Othercover2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|???]]<br />
|[[file:Othercover3.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|???]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Wing_Commander_Movie_-_DVD_Details&diff=38299Wing Commander Movie - DVD Details2019-12-31T18:48:32Z<p>AD: </p>
<hr />
<div>==[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00D3LA698/wingcommander-20 US REGION A Bluray]==<br />
*Details:<br />
**Bluray Release Date: 2013/08/13<br />
**Widescreen <br />
**English AC, Digital Sound <br />
**This edition has no special features to speak of, has no menu, and begins playing as soon as you put the disk in the player.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
<br />
|<br />
<br />
[[File:Wingcommanderbluray.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| North American Blu-Ray]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==[http://amzn.to/nXvypc US REGION 1 DVD Ver. 2]==<br />
* Details<br />
**DVD Release Date: August 6th, 2013<br />
**NTSC<br />
**Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**There are no special features to speak of on this edition. There's no menu either and the disk starts to play immediately upon putting it in your player.<br />
<br />
<br />
==[http://amzn.to/nXvypc US REGION 1 DVD]==<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305475822/wingcommander-20 amazon.com]<br />
* Details<br />
**DVD Release Date: 1999/07/06; 2011/11/01<br />
**NTSC<br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**[http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Wing_Commander_Region_1_DVD_booklet DVD Booklet]<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English Dolby 2.0<br />
**Trailers<br />
* Easter eggs<br />
** Press right on your remote control and then press select to see a DVD credits screen.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
| [[File:North american r1 dvd ver2.png|thumb|none|x150px| North American R1 Ver. 2]]<br />
| [[file:Wing_commander_dvd_insert.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| North American R1 cover insert]] <br />
| [[file:Wing_commander_dvd_booklet.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| R1 DVD booklet cover]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[file:Wing_commander_dvd_booklet2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Inside the DVD Booklet]]<br />
| [[file:English_vhs_cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|VHS Cover]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wing-Commander-DVD/dp/B001NDTAF4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310969088&sr=8-1 Enlish - UK DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2005/01/03<br />
**PAL<br />
<br />
[[File:Wcm uk dvd cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| UK DVD]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Australian DVD Region 4==<br />
<br />
* Details<br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1) 16x9<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English Captions<br />
**Single Layer DVD<br />
**96 Minutes<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander Australian DVD cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Australian DVD]]<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.it/Wing-Commander-Attacco-Alla-Terra/dp/B000SL1W5I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311065957&sr=8-1 Italian DVD Region 2]==<br />
**Alternate Title: Wing Commander - Attacco Alla Terra<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2000/03/21 <br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1 - 16/9 anamorphic)<br />
**English Dolby Surround<br />
**Italian Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Itallan Dolby Surround<br />
**Italian subtitles<br />
<br />
<br />
[[file:Italiandvdcover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Italian DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Spanish DVD Region 2==<br />
<br />
*FEATURES:<br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1) 16x9<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**German Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English, German, Spanish (Castellano) subtitles. <br />
**Theatrical Trailer<br />
**Interactive Menus<br />
**Featurette and Interviews with cast and crew<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander DVD spanish cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Spanish-vcd-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish VCD]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander Spanish-vcd-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish VCD back]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Spanish DVD Region 2 - Ver. 2==<br />
**PAL<br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**Production Notes<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Spanish (Castellano) Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English and Spanish (Castellano) subtitles<br />
**Scene Selection<br />
**TV spots and trailers<br />
**language and subtitle selection <br />
**technical, artistic and dubbing sheet<br />
**production design<br />
**featurette<br />
**video games in the cinema<br />
**Director and cast filmography <br />
**recommendations<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm spanish dvd 2 cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD 2 Cover]]<br />
|[[file:Wcm spanish dvd 2 back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Spanish DVD 2 back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.fr/Wing-Commander-Tcheky-Karyo/dp/B001JPBA2M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310968159&sr=8-1 French DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2009/01/06 <br />
**PAL <br />
**French Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**French Subtitles <br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1 - 16/9 anamorphic)<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:French_wcmdvd3.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| French DVD Cover]]<br />
|[[file:French vhs.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| French VHS Cover]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Netherlands DVD Region 2==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wcdvd2006cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Netherlands Region 2 DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.de/Wing-Commander-Freddie-Prinze-Jr/dp/B000055WK0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1310968472&sr=8-3 German DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2001/05/30 <br />
**PAL<br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**German Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**English Subtitles<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:German_movie_cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| German Cover]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German VHS]]<br />
|[[file:German DVD doublefeature titanAE wing commander.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German Double-Feature DVD]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-vcd-front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|German VCD ]]<br />
|[[file:Wing Commander German-vcd-back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| German VCD back]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==[http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC-DVD-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84/dp/B00005HUZR/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1311065191&sr=1-1 Japanese DVD Region 2]==<br />
**DVD Release Date: 2001/03/23<br />
**NTSC <br />
**Letterboxed Widescreen (2.35:1 on non-anamorphic 4:3 encoding)<br />
**Language: English, Japanese<br />
**Subtitles: English, Japanese<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Japanese_cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover]] <br />
|[[File:JapaneseDVD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 2]] <br />
|[[file:Japanese VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese VHS Cover ]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 3 ]]<br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD2b.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD Cover 3]] <br />
|[[file:Japanese DVD cover2c.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Japanese DVD ]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Swedish DVD Region 2==<br />
**PAL<br />
**Widescreen (2.35:1 - 16/9 anamorphic)<br />
**English Dolby Surround<br />
**Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian subtitles (Subtitles cannot be turned off)<br />
**Trailers<br />
**Making of featurette<br />
**Spotlights from the movie set<br />
<br />
<br />
[[file:Swedish DVD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Swedish DVD Cover]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Finnish VHS==<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander Finnish-VHS.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Finnish VHS]]<br />
<br />
==Danish DVD Region 2==<br />
*PAL<br />
*16:9 Anamorphic - 2.35:1 letterboxed<br />
*Audio: English Dolby Surround<br />
*Subtitles: Danish, Norwegian, Finnish Swedish<br />
*Trailer<br />
*Making-of<br />
*On Location<br />
<br />
[[file:Wing Commander DanishDVD cover.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Danish DVD]]<br />
<br />
==[http://www.mangpong.co.th/eshop/product-detail.php?id=004719 Thai DVD Region 3]==<br />
<br />
**Wing Commander - ฝูงบินพิทักษ์ผ่าจักรวาล (Protection Squadron through the universe)<br />
**Standard 1.33:1 (4:3)<br />
**ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 <br />
**THAI: Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Subtitles: English, Thai<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD front.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Thai DVD]]<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai DVD2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 2]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[file:Thai_DVD2_back.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 2 back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai_DVD3_back.jpg.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai DVD 3 back]]<br />
|[[file:Thai VCD.jpg|thumb|none|x150px|Thai VCD]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Greek DVD==<br />
*ΟΙ ΦΡΟΥΡΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ<br />
*DVD Release Date: 17/04/2000<br />
*Distributor: Odeon<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[file:Wcm greek dvd.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Greek DVD]]<br />
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==Slovenian VHS==<br />
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==Hungarian VHS==<br />
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==Polish VHS==<br />
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[[File:Wcm_polish_vhs2.jpg|thumb|none|x150px| Polish VHS]]<br />
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**Wing Commander - Nieprzerwana akcja<br />
**Distributor: Imperial Entertainment<br />
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==Hong Kong DVD==<br />
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===Chinese/Taiwanese Bluray===<br />
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*Shindler Bluray<br />
**Catalogue Code: LZ-7198<br />
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**English DTS-HD5.1 <br />
**Mandarin Dolby trueHD5.1 <br />
**English Dolby trueHD5.1<br />
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**Traditional Chinese <br />
**English<br />
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**English Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
**Polish Dolby Digital 5.1<br />
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**Russian<br />
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==Croatian VHS==<br />
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*Distributor: VTI<br />
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<div>When the Wing Commander feature film was approching it's theatrical release Digital Anvil and 20th Century Fox set up the now defunct promotional website at www.wcmovie.com. This is some of the text that appeard on the site.<br />
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'''Personal Log, Commander James "Paladin" Taggart<br />
Commander, Merchant Ship Diligent''' <br />
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March 15th, 2654 - Strange things have been happening lately. Just today, I was requisitioned to transport two recent Naval Academy graduates to their first flight assignments aboard the Confed carrier Tiger Claw. En route, however, these two rookies, pilots Christopher Blair and Todd Marshall, received a Code One secure communication from Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral of the whole damn Navy! Turns out that Tolwyn wants these two kids to personally deliver an encrypted comm chip directly to the Tiger Claw's commanding officer. Now, I've seen a lot of things during my time in space, but sending such a critical communication with two rookies...???<br />
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This milk run just got a little more interesting. <br />
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<br />
==ABOUT THE FILM==<br />
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Earth year 2654. The Confederation is engaged in a brutal war with the vicious, bloodthirsty alien race, the Kilrathi. <br />
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The Kilrathi have captured a computer navigation device, which they plan on using to jump behind enemy lines and attack Earth. Only three brazen young space pilots and their elite fighter squadron stand in the way of their planet's destruction.<br />
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Christopher Blair is fresh from the Academy, but his inexperience belies his incredible navigational skills. He has a genetically driven gift -an inate feel for the stars and for space-time itself. Blair's buddy, Todd 'Maniac' Marshall, is a brash, irresponsible fighter jock with a slightly crazed gleam in his eye. He likes to do things his way, and if he breaks a few rules, so much the better. <br />
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Their wing commander is the strong-willed and beautiful Jeanette 'Angel' Deveraux, the leader of the fighter squadron. Deveraux's laser-like focus and leadership skills mask her growing attraction for Chris. <br />
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With nothing but their own rebellious ways in common, Deveraux, Blair and Maniac will come together to face a seemingly invincible enemy -- with the future of mankind at stake.<br />
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WING COMMANDER springs from the fertile imagination of Chris Roberts, who created the five computer games and characters upon which the motion picture is based. Following the overwhelming success of the games and their growing legion of eager fans, the creation of a motion picture seemed only natural.<br />
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"I've always loved movies", says Roberts. "I think the WING COMMANDER GAMES were so successful because they became increasingly cinematic; we shot on film and had motion picture production values. Each time it was like making a film. So going to the big screen felt like the next step."<br />
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While keeping in mind WING COMMANDER's origins, and being careful not to ignore the demanding and loyal gamers, Roberts, with the motion picture, hopes to expand the phenomenon's universe of excitement, effects and adventure. "We want the film to deliver all the action, visual impact and provocative characters that the millions of Wing Commander fans worldwide have come to expect", Roberts says. "Yet we insisted that it also have mass appeal. We worked with a brand-new story line, so moviegoers don't need to be familiar with the game to understand or enjoy the film."<br />
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"WING COMMANDER is a hard-core war movie set in space. In some ways, it has more in common with Midway and The Battle of Britain than with a science fiction film," he adds. "It has lots of effects and combat scenes, all of which serve the characters and story. I wanted to make a film about people under the incredible tension of battle."<br />
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==VISUAL EFFECTS==<br />
<br />
...Joining Lamont in working with director Chris Roberts in designing the film's overall look was director of photography Thierry Arbogast. Arbogast's work on the sci-fi thriller The Fifth Element demonstrated his abilities in that genre and made him an ideal choice to work on WING COMMANDER. While Arbogast and Lamont created a look that captures Roberts' retro-future world, the visual effects team, headed by Chris Brown, designed the intricate and vast worlds outside the ships. Brown, whose credits include Starship Troopers and Air Force One, oversaw the 250 visual effects shots, all of which were computer generated. <br />
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Moyer originally approached Brown when the latter was at effects house Boss Film. When that entity disbanded, Digital Anvil hired Brown to manage the visual effects and set up shop in Austin, TX, forming a "virtual studio" that handled all the movie's effects. A particularly impressive effects sequence involved what the WING COMMANDER story calls "time-slicing." In this, a series of 60 cameras were arrayed along a 120-degree arc around the subject. This rig enabled the crew to film two seconds of footage (at 30 frames per second) moving around action that is essentially frozen in space.<br />
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==ANIMATRONICS==<br />
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Also creating some considerable science fiction magic of their own were the physical effects wizards at England's Animated Extras, who created the giant alien race, the Kilrathi. With full body armor, prosthetics and resin and latex heads, the Kilrathi tower well over eight feet. The operators of each creature peered out from mesh cutouts in the breastplates. <br />
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Each animatronic Kilrathi head was capable of eight or more fluid motions; the head cocks and swivels, the lips curl back in a snarl, and the forehead creases. The creature's most alarming feature is its eyes - sickly yellow, vertical pupils that look wet as they blink and turn in their sockets. <br />
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==CAST==<br />
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'''Freddie Prinze, Jr.<br><br />
Christopher "Maverick" Blair'''<br />
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Freddie Prinze, Jr., 22, is making his ninth big screen appearance in WING COMMANDER. In the film, Prinze's character, Christopher Blair, struggles with his heritage -- he is half "Pilgrim," a dying race who were the first space explorers and settlers, blessed with an innate ability to navigate without maps or computers. Throughout the story, Blair learns more about his past, and why many people hold Pilgrims in contempt. <br />
Freddie Prinze Jr. most recently starred opposite Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard in the box-office hit She's All That. He also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer, and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Prinze's other big screen credits include House of Yes with Parker Posey and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday with Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Peter Gallagher and Kathy Baker. <br />
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The Albuquerque native began his acting career after finishing high school and moving to Los Angeles. He landed roles on the network television shows Family Matters, The Watcher and the ABC after school special Too Soon for Jeff. His most recent television appearance was in Detention, which starred Rick Schroeder and Henry Winkler. <br />
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You can visit Freddie Prinze's Official Website at http://www.freddieprinzejr.com/. <br />
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'''Matthew Lillard<br><br />
Todd "Maniac" Marshall'''<br />
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Playing the role of Todd "Maniac" Marshall, the cocky fighter pilot fresh from the Confederation Naval Academy, is Matthew Lillard. Maniac is a brash, irresponsible fighter jock with a slightly crazed gleam in his eye, who's lack of responsibility gets him into trouble more than once. <br />
Lillard first captured audiences' attention with his portrayal as the hyper-kinetic Stuart in the thriller Scream. He was most recently seen in She's All That with Freddie Prinze Jr. <br />
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Lillard's other features include Senseless, Serial Mom, Mad Love, Hackers and the HBO special If These Walls Could Talk. He also starred opposite Emmy Award winner Kim Delaney in ABC's critically acclaimed movie The Devil's Child. <br />
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Vist Matthew Lillard's Official Website at http://www.matthewlillard.com/. <br />
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'''Saffron Burrows<br><br />
Jeannette "Angel" Deveraux'''<br />
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Saffron Burrows appears in WING COMMANDER as Jeannette "Angel" Deveraux, the strong, confident leader of one of the Tiger Claw's fighter squadrons. <br />
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Burrows successfully made the transition from modeling to acting, and is probably best known for her role as "Nan" in the 1995 romance/drama, Circle of Friends. <br />
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Burrows was most recently seen in Woody Allen's Celebrity and will star later this year in Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea. <br />
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Her previous film credits include Mike Figgis' One Night Stand, the Australian romantic comedy Hotel de Love, Circle of Friends with Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver, In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, and Loss of Sexual Innocence. <br />
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Burrows has also made numerous television appearances in her native Great Britain.<br />
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'''Tchéky Karyo<br><br />
Commander James "Paladin" Taggart'''<br />
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James "Paladin" Taggart, the grim, rugged, wise, and mysterious commander of the merchant ship Diligent, is played by the veteran French actor Tchéky Karyo. <br />
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Karyo is most often remembered for his roles in the feature films Addicted To Love and La Femme Nikita, and is an accomplished screen actor with a long list of films to his credit. Karyo's English-language-film credits include GoldenEye, Operation Dumbo Drop, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and The Bear. <br />
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He performed in Dobermann, La Villa del Venerdi, Isabelle Eberhardt, Le Moine et la Sorcière, Bleu Comme l'Enfer and Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune. Karyo has also appeared on such cable specials as HBO's From the Earth to the Moon and And the Band Played On. <br />
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He'll star in the French film Comme un poisson dans l'eau ("Like a Fish in Water") in 1999. <br />
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'''Ginny Holder<br><br />
Rosie Forbes'''<br />
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Ginny Holder plays the role of Rosie Forbes in WING COMMANDER, a Tiger Claw fighter pilot with "brains, beauty, and a warrior's soul". <br />
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Born in England, Rosie Forbes started her acting career in 1994 with the TV mini-series Crocodile Shoes. She later appeared in the 1997 action movie, The Saint. <br />
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'''David Suchet<br><br />
Captain Jason Sansky'''<br />
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Veteran actor David Suchet plays the Tiger Claw's aging yet wise commanding officer, Captain Jason Sansky. A kind yet battle-weary man, Sansky shows great concern for the well-being of his fighter pilots. <br />
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Suchet's film credits include Sunday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, Executive Decision, Iron Eagle, The Life of Freud, The Muse, The Falcon and the Snowman and Once in a Lifetime, to name a few. <br />
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Suchet's television credits include Moses, and Hercule Poirot on Poirot, a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination from BAFTA three years in a row. <br />
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On stage, Suchet has appeared in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and numerous Shakespeare roductions such as Othello, Richard II, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. Suchet received a Best Actor Award from the Variety Club in 1984 for his starring performance in Oleanna, for which he was also recognized with an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor. <br />
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'''David Warner<br><br />
Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn'''<br />
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Experienced actor David Warner plays Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn, the leader of the vast Confederation fleet and the man who makes command decisions in the war against the Kilrathi. <br />
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Warner was recently seen in James Cameron's Titanic as Spicer Lovejoy, the mean-spirited valet to Billy Zane's character Cal Hockley. <br />
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A partial list of Warner's extensive film credits includes Scream 2, Money Talks, In the Mouth of Madness, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Tron, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Time Bandits and The Omen. <br />
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Warner's television credits include Twin Peaks, Babylon 5, The Larry Sanders Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation and the mini-series Wild Palms. Warner has also done voice-overs for numerous cartoons and movies such as Babe: Pig in the City, Toonsylvania and Batman: The Animated Series, and was the narrator in Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. <br />
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'''Jürgen Prochnow<br><br />
Commander Paul Gerald'''<br />
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German-born Jürgen Prochnow appears in WING COMMANDER as the experienced executive officer of the Tiger Claw, Commander Paul Gerald. Gerald harbors a deep prejudice towards Blair, due to Blair's being half "Pilgrim". <br />
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Probably best known for his roll as the Captain in Das Boot, he has also appeared as "Duke Atreides" in Dune, and played "Michael Kogan" in The Replacement Killers. Most recently Prochnow appeared in the Canadian film, The Fall. <br />
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Among his many film credits are Air Force One, Judge Dredd, The English Patient, In the Mouth of Madness, Body of Evidence, The Seventh Sign, and Beverly Hills Cop II. <br />
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Prochnow's television credits include Der Schrei der Liebe, Human Bomb, Der Fall Lucona, On Dangerous Ground and Lie Down with Lions. <br />
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==CREW==<br />
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A multinational (and multilingual) cast and crew, representing the U.S., France, England, Germany and Ireland, among other countries, assembled in Luxembourg to bring WING COMMANDER to the screen. Luxembourg may not be on everyone's list of exotic film locations, but for WING COMMANDER, the tiny Grand Duchy, better known as a diplomatic enclave and banking and insurance center for the European Union, was out of this world, literally. <br />
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On two sound stages located clear across the country (30 kilometers) from one another, compelling celestial environments took shape. The stages were transformed into the vast flight deck, bridge, pilot's mess and corridors of the Confederation carrier, Tiger Claw. In addition, they served as the bridge of the merchant vessel Diligent, and the bridge and corridors of the Kilrathi ship. <br />
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The live action filmed on these sets was seamlessly integrated with more than 250 digital effects shots. These enormous sets gave an all-important sense of epic scale to the production. Says producer Todd Moyer: "We did our best to make a movie that looks big and will live up to the fans' expectations and, we hope, create many new fans. "Shooting the entire movie on a set gave us much more ability to keep control," continues Moyer. "That was important because every shot in the picture has green screen elements and/or holograms. We even had sets built on hydraulics, which added to the feel of movement in space."<br />
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'''Chris Roberts<br><br />
Director/Writer'''<br />
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If anyone is capable of converting the most popular and successful com puter game series of all time into a major motion picture, it is Chris Roberts. <br />
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He is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment software. As a top grossing game designer, producer, live-action director and above all, storyteller, Roberts blends his vision and technical expertise to keep his projects on the cutting edge of entertainment. <br />
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At an early age, he became one of England's best-known game designers and by 1987 had three #1 hits in the United Kingdom: Match Day, Wiz Adore and Stryker's Run.<br />
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Prior to forming his new company, Digital Anvil, Roberts was vice president of new technology at Origin Systems, Inc. as well as executive producer for Origin's parent company, Electronic Arts. As a member of Electronic Arts' development executive staff, he formulated the company's interactive movie and flight simulation strategies. During Roberts' eight-year tenure at Origin, he produced numerous international bestsellers: Times of Lore, Bad Blood, Strike Commander and WING COMMANDER, which remains one of the top selling games today.<br />
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When new CD-ROM technology enabled Origin in 1993 to include full-motion live video with the 3-D space action beginning in WING COMMANDER III, Roberts not only designed the game, but jumped into the director's chair as well. WING COMMANDER III became the most successful computer game of 1994. In 1995, Roberts directed the epic WING COMMANDER IV, which contained some five hours of branching video on six CDs. <br />
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Roberts' latest venture, Digital Anvil, is an entertainment company. In addition to creating innovative interactive computer games and movies with star power and mass-market appeal, Digital Anvil is also a digital production house creating state-of-the-art special effects. With the WING COMMANDER movie, Roberts demonstrates Digital Anvil's ability to affect the "fusion of silicon and celluloid," giving new life to characters from the popular game series. <br />
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'''Todd Moyer<br><br />
Producer, No Prisoners Management''' <br />
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Todd Moyer is partnered with Executive Producer Jean-Martial LeFranc in No Prisoners, a management and production company specializing in cutting-edge technology-based directors and writers. <br />
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No Prisoners is a production and visual effects company specializing in producing visual effects driven, cutting-edge motion pictures. Todd Moyer serves as President of No Prisoners Productions and CEO of No Prisoners 3DFX. Moyer is a long-standing entertainment executive and film producer. <br />
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Prior to starting No Prisoners, Mr. Moyer was President of Steven Seagal's production company, Steamroller Productions, where he oversaw production of Fire Down Below. <br />
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Before joining Steamroller Productions, he served as Executive Vice-President and Producer for Dark Horse Entertainment (DHE). While at DHE, Moyer transformed the venture into an extremely successful feature film production company specializing in comic book and pop-culture related material. He oversaw the production of the company's first three feature films: The Mask, Timecop (where he served as co-producer) and Barb Wire (where he was Producer). In addition, Moyer co-produced Virus for Universal. Aside from producing and developing feature films, Moyer launched a number of joint ventures for DHE. These ventures include Dark Horse Interactive, Dark Horse Publishing France and Dark Horse Publishing Japan. <br />
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Next up for No Prisoners is Battlestar Gallactica, which is scheduled for a late summer start in Luxembourg. Moyer is also producing the high-concept action/adventure update of Jason and the Argonauts for DreamWorks Pictures. Also on the No Prisoners slate is a motion-picture adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, which Moyer is producing with Jersey Films for Universal Pictures. No Prisoners 3DFX, which comprises numerous members of the effects team responsible for the stunning visual effects for Wing Commander, is presently providing the special visual effects for the upcoming Fortress II. <br />
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'''Peter Lamont<br><br />
Production Designer''' <br />
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Peter Lamont has had a long and successful career as Production Designer. His most recent movie, 1997's Best Picture, Titanic, won him an Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Set Design, as well as a Golden Satellite Award and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. He also has received Academy Award nominations for his work on such films as Aliens, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Fiddler on the Roof. <br />
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For WING COMMANDER, Lamont has created a "retro-future world" which includes extraordinary spaceships, the hangar deck of an intergalactic spacecraft carrier, and a number of other immersive alien and confederate environments. <br />
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Lamont has worked on eight of the James Bond films as production designer, including GoldenEye, License to Kill, and the forthcoming Bond 19: The World is Not Enough. <br />
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'''<br />
Kevin Droney<br><br />
Writer'''<br />
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Writer Kevin Droney is probably best known for his script for the sucessful Mortal Kombat, released in 1995. Droney has also written several episodes for the 1992 television series Highlander. After WING COMMANDER, Droney will go on to work on The Deceivers, a new movie directed by Simon West. <br />
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Sharing writing credit with Droney and Roberts on the WING COMMANDER movie is newcomer Mike Finch. <br />
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'''Romain Schroeder & Tom Reeve<br><br />
Executive Producer, Line Producer'''<br />
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Romain Schroeder has served as executive producer on several movies and television shows, mostly in other countries. He was involved with this year's Talos the Mummy (released in Argentina). Schroder also served as co-executive producer on 1997's Sub Down.<br />
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Romain Schroeder together with Tom Reeve heads up The Carousel Picture Company, which produces feature films and high-end television dramas. <br />
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Schroeder's film production credits include The House That Mary Bought, Words Upon the Window Pane, Lie Down with Lions and Sub Down. He produced Eye of the Storm for Showtime, the Live Home Entertainment movie A House in the Hills, and Women's Wing I, II and III, each of which aired as a 22-hour series on RTL4.<br />
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Reeve's television production credits include the Hallmark production of One Against the Wind, Fatal Vision, Coins in the Fountain and The Way to Dusty Death.<br />
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'''Jean-Martial LeFranc<br><br />
Line Producer''' <br />
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Jean-Martial LeFranc is presently partnered with Todd Moyer in No Prisoners, a management and production company specializing in cutting-edge, technology-based directors and writers. <br />
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Prior to No Prisoners, LeFranc founded his own production company, Compagnie des Images, which produced and released numerous international award-winning films. At the same time he started Cyro Interactive Entertainment, which later became one of Europe's major game developers with clients that included Virgin Interactive. <br />
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LeFranc is also a partner in a comic book and Id3D computer graphics company, Dark Horse France. During his tenure as the head of Virgin Communications for France, under LeFranc's supervision, Virgin started the distribution of the Sega consoles and released the movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Akira, Metropolitan, Drugstore Cowboy and many others both for theatre and for video. <br />
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An attorney by trade, LeFranc earned his law degree as a Laureate of Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris before joining Publicis, the eighth largest world-wide advertising agency, in 1984. <br />
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German article about the making of the Wing Commander movie<br />
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Translation by Philip Hadviger<br />
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==Wing Commander The Movie==<br />
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The successful computer game makes its way into the theaters<br />
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Who doesn't know the gigantic Space Odyssey "Wing Commander" which made it onto Store shelves year after year just in time for Christmas? The space simulation, which by now has achieved Cult Status, topped itself game after game. The first part was small enough to fit on a few floppies, whereas the last two parts of this impressive Epic required up to 4 CDs for its Hollywood quality Movie scenes. These scenes, which were shown in between the single Missions, featured such known Actors as Mark Hamil (Luke Skywalker from "Star Wars") or Malcolm McDowell ("Star Trek - Generations").<br />
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Creator and Producer Chris Roberts could now finally make his dream come true - "Wing Commander" made it to the Big Screen.<br />
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==The Movie:==<br />
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Pegasus is a converted Asteroid of the Confederation, on which Space travelers can relax from their everyday routine at one of the many artificial beaches. But the peace and quite doesn't last very long, as the evil Kilrathi, aliens that look like a combination of Humans and Cats, arrive at this location. On Board of one of the Kilrathi-Battleships is a "Pilgrim", a Human who doesn't belong to the Confederation. This "Pilgrim" betrays the people of "Pegasus" and with the help of one Kilrathi Warrior, he steals the navigation computer of the enclave, which contains valuable Positional data. Afterwards the Colony is destroyed by the Kilrathi.<br />
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The Navigation computer allows the Kilrathi to sneak behind the Confederation's borders and attack Earth directly. The Confederation's mission is to find this Computer and to stop the Kilrathi before they can attack Earth.<br />
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Admiral Tolwyn (David Warner) sends an encrypted Message to Lt. Chris Blair (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), a young fighter pilot who is fresh out of the Space academy. Blair is a "Half-Pilgrim", who attempts to use his genetically inherited ability, which gives him full orientation in Space. This ability comes in handy, as the ships in the "Wing Commander" universe have to travel great distances through so called "Jump Points" (Jump points through Hyper space).<br />
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Blair and is friend Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Mathew Lillard) are onroute to their first mission on the Battleship "Tiger Claw". On the Trade freighter "Diligent" they come upon the mysterious Captain Paladin (Tcheky Karyo), who allows Blair to fly through the secret "Jump Point" Scylla, which is located at the edges of a Black Hole - a dangerous undertaking. But Blair manages to complete the trip, which usually takes 6 months, in just 3 minutes even though he nearly destroys his ship in the process. When they finally arrive at the "Tiger Claw", Blair discovers the beautiful "Angel" Deveraux (Saffron Burrows), who, as it turns out later on, is the person in direct command of him as a "Wing Commander". He also meets the Captain of the Ship, Sansky (David Suchet) and his first officer, Gerald (Jurgen Prochnow), who doesn't hide his antipathy against Blair's "Pilgrim" Background.<br />
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Just a little later, Paladin navigates the "Tiger Claw" through a "Jump Point" to a small brown Dwarf Asteroid, where Blair flies his first Mission. During the patrol trough a nearby Asteroid belt, Blair and Deveroux find and destroy two Kilrathi-fighters, which where hiding out in the area. Deveroux gets an order from Sansky to continue the sweep of the area to find any other Kilrathi ships. After not detecting any other vessels, Paladin, suspecting a trap, orders the fighters to return to the "Tiger Claw". This first encounter is only the beginning of the Battle, in which the fate of the Earth will be decided. In addition the lines between good and bad are blurred because a traitor is aboard the "Tiger Claw"....<br />
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==The Production:==<br />
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Filming occurred from February until April 1998 in Luxemburg, a pretty exotic film location for Americans. Producer Todd Moyer was full of enthusiasm about the Studios: "In the USA we could have never made a movie like 'Wing Commander' for only 25 million dollars - here it is no problem at all!" Moyer, who also worked on movies like "The Mask". "Timecop" and "Barb Wire", believes that Luxemburg offers great possibilities and discounts for this type of movie: "The Audience for this movie has very high expectations, and we are trying our best to make the movie look more expensive. In the USA 50 Million Dollars would have been a requirement." Todd guides the visitors through the studio and explains the very realistic sets of the "Tiger Claw's" Flightdecks. The buildings used to be part of an Ammunitions Factory and were just recently used as a Gothic Cathedral from the movie "American Werewolf in Paris".<br />
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In the background Technicians are working on the "Rapiers" - the fighters of the "Tiger Claw", which are lined up in the Hangar. These Fighters weren't just made out of wood, no, they are the old bodies of British airplanes, which were modified with Metal, Wood and Plastic in order to act as Trailer size space fighters. When one hits the fighter's body, one can feel the steel. These very massive fighters should be sold once the filming is complete because it would be a shame to recycle them.<br />
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Other interesting Space vehicles include a "Space Bulldozer" and a Tanker, both recycled from the movie "Judge Dredd".<br />
The tour continues and Moyer points out a Storage room which is full of containers and piles of boxes and the walls are covered with Monitors, Cables and other lines - all very realistic looking. All of it came from the mind of the Oscar nominated ("Titanic") production designer Peter Lamont and his colleagues. "The small and confined areas on board of the "Tiger Claw" remind me of 'The Boat in Space'" says Peter Lamont.<br />
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A few minutes away from the Studio building is the Hotel Intercontinental Luxemburg, a gigantic Hotel, which is right at the end of the main street. The Hotel is completely packed with more than 200 Crew members of the Film. On the 4 floor they have an editing room and a Computer animation studio. From the they send daily updates with the latest data to Digital Anvil, the Animation Firm in Austin, Texas. It looks like the Post Production of the movie is happening simultaneously with the filming, but all this work is necessary to combine the endless special effects with the movie.<br />
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==The Actors:==<br />
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Freddie Prinze Jr. (Blair)<br />
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His latest role was in the movie "I know what you did last Summer", alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Prince also starred in the movies "House of Yes" and in "To Gillian on her 37 Birthday" with Michelle Pfeiffer. Freddie was born and grew up in Albuquerque. His acting career didn't start until after school and his move to Los Angeles. He had small parts in the TV shows like "Family Matters", "The Watcher" and "Detention". He loves Computer games and Science-Fiction. "When I was a kid I watched Science-Fiction 24 hours a day 7 days a week. My bought my first 'Wing Commander' game when I was 15 years old and I was completely blown away, so obviously I bought all of the sequels that followed."<br />
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Saffron Burrows (Deveraux)<br />
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The British Actress started her career in theater at the age of 17. She is known though movies like "Hotel de Love", "One Night Stand" and "In the name of the Father" with Daniel Day Lewis. She just finished filming "The Loss of Sexual Innocence", in which she played twins who were separated at birth and grow up and Italy and England respectively. She really liked her role in "Wing Commander": "It is a really different role from all the other movies I have done, where I usually play women who have some kind of problem! My character in 'Wing Commander' is completely different, she is very hard, cold and direct, but deep down very passionate.<br />
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Mathew Lillard (Maniac)<br />
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His first big role in the Big Screen was a Stuart in the movie "Scream". His next two projects were "S.L.C. Punk" and "Senseless" (in which he play a Hockey Player). He also portrayed the serial killer in "Hackers" and appeared in the TV movie "If these walls could talk". Then role in "Wing Commander" was a real challenge for the Californian actor.<br />
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Jurgen Prochnow (Gerald)<br />
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Compared to all the other actors, Jurgen Prochnow has been in this business for a while. In many roles include appearances in "Legendender Leidenshaft" with Brad Pitt, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinnas well as "Body of Evidence" with Madonna, "The Boat", "Dune", "Das7. Zeichen" and even a role in the "Wing Commander" related game "Privateer 2: The Darkening".<br />
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*Featurette: Clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part3.avi Featurette - with text] (16,222k - 4:47) <br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part4.avi Featurette - without text] (16,256k - 4:51)<br />
*Selected Soundbites:<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part6.avi Interviews with the cast and crew] (30,336k - 12:31) <br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part1.avi Trailer - Version #1] (5,038k - 1:21)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part2.avi Trailer - Version #2] (2,320k - 0:35)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part5.avi Film Clips] (9,950k - 4:19)<br />
*This Next video is a cool little bonus from the B-Roll. It includes the only known footage of Merlin's scenes. Merlin was a small holographic AI character that was voiced by Mark Hamill and set to accompany Blair along his adventure. Ultimately he was removed from the film and condensed into limited interaction between Blair and the Rapier's cockpit computer. This scene isn't in the extended workprint. The press kit has music and b-roll audio on individual audio tracks so the sequence's music has been removed to make this easier to hear. <br />
**Download the clip [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/merlin_clip.avi HERE] (5.1 meg avi).<br />
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==TRAILERS==<br />
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The two trailers on the EPK don't amount to much more than TV Spots and run about 30 seconds each. In fact the video portion of each is identical. <br />
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Trailer 1 has narration. The music, dialogue and sound effects are in the left hand audio channel and the Narration will play in the right.<br />
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Trailer 2 has no narration with the dialogue and sound effects in the left hand audio channel and the music separated into the right channel.<br />
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===TRAILER 1===<br />
[[File:EPK_trailer1.mp4]]<br />
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==FEATURETTE==<br />
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Similar to the way the audio is separated with the trailers these two featurettes are pretty much the same. The first featurette has not only text explaining who is speaking but narration is provided separated from the music and effects in the right audio channel. The Second has no text, no naration, and again the music is separated out into the right hand audio channel.<br />
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===FEATURETTE WITH TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_with_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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==CLIPS==<br />
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===NAVCOM ONLINE===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip1.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===NEVER EXISTED===<br />
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===BATTLE STATIONS===<br />
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==INTERVIEWS==<br />
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===Freddy Prinze Jr. - Blair===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_freddy_prinze_jr.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Matthew Lillard - Maniac===<br />
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===Saffron Burrows - Angel===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_saffron_burrows.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Tchéky Karyo - Paladin===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_tchéky_karyo.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Chris Roberts - Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_roberts.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Todd Moyer - Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_todd_moyer.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Peter Lamont - Production Designer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_peter_lamont.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Charles Lee - Supervising Art Director===<br />
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===Chris Brown - Visual Effects Supervisor===<br />
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===Eric Strauss - Visual Effects Producer===<br />
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You can download the entire video in better quality [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v HERE] or download individual segments of the EPK! :<br />
<br />
*Featurette: Clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part3.avi Featurette - with text] (16,222k - 4:47) <br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part4.avi Featurette - without text] (16,256k - 4:51)<br />
*Selected Soundbites:<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part6.avi Interviews with the cast and crew] (30,336k - 12:31) <br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part1.avi Trailer - Version #1] (5,038k - 1:21)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part2.avi Trailer - Version #2] (2,320k - 0:35)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part5.avi Film Clips] (9,950k - 4:19)<br />
*This Next video is a cool little bonus from the B-Roll. It includes the only known footage of Merlin's scenes. Merlin was a small holographic AI character that was voiced by Mark Hamill and set to accompany Blair along his adventure. Ultimately he was removed from the film and condensed into limited interaction between Blair and the Rapier's cockpit computer. This scene isn't in the extended workprint. The press kit has music and b-roll audio on individual audio tracks so the sequence's music has been removed to make this easier to hear. <br />
**Download the clip [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/merlin_clip.avi HERE] (5.1 meg avi).<br />
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=WATCH=<br />
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==TRAILERS==<br />
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<br />
The two trailers on the EPK don't amount to much more than TV Spots and run about 30 seconds each. In fact the video portion of each is identical. <br />
<br />
Trailer 1 has narration. The music, dialogue and sound effects are in the left hand audio channel and the Narration will play in the right.<br />
<br />
Trailer 2 has no narration with the dialogue and sound effects in the left hand audio channel and the music separated into the right channel.<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 1===<br />
[[File:EPK_trailer1.mp4]]<br />
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===TRAILER 2===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/EPK_trailer2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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<br />
==FEATURETTE==<br />
<br />
Similar to the way the audio is separated with the trailers these two featurettes are pretty much the same. The first featurette has not only text explaining who is speaking but narration is provided separated from the music and effects in the right audio channel. The Second has no text, no naration, and again the music is separated out into the right hand audio channel.<br />
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===FEATURETTE WITH TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_with_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===FEATURETTE WITHOUT TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_no_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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==CLIPS==<br />
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===NAVCOM ONLINE===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip1.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===NEVER EXISTED===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===BATTLE STATIONS===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip3.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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==INTERVIEWS==<br />
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===Freddy Prinze Jr. - Blair===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_freddy_prinze_jr.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Matthew Lillard - Maniac===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_matthew_lillard.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Saffron Burrows - Angel===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_saffron_burrows.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Tchéky Karyo - Paladin===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_tchéky_karyo.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Chris Roberts - Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_roberts.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Todd Moyer - Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_todd_moyer.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Peter Lamont - Production Designer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_peter_lamont.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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===Charles Lee - Supervising Art Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_charles_lee.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Brown - Visual Effects Supervisor===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_brown.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Eric Strauss - Visual Effects Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_eric_strauss.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==UNEDITED B-ROLL==<br />
<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/B-Roll.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Wing_Commander_Electronic_Press_Kit&diff=37615Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit2019-10-27T06:15:00Z<p>AD: /* DOWNLOAD */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox File <br />
| name = Wing Commander - Electronic Press Kit (M4V)<br />
| faction = terran<br />
| download = [[download:=http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v|Download]]<br />
| filesize = {{filesize|394240}}<br />
| runtime = 37:22}}<br />
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=DOWNLOAD=<br />
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<gallery mode=slideshow|left|showthumbnails><br />
Image:WCM EPK01.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK02.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK03.png| <br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
You can download the entire video in better quality [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v HERE] or download individual segments of the EPK! :<br />
<br />
*Featurette: Clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part3.avi Featurette - with text] (16,222k - 4:47) <br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part4.avi Featurette - without text] (16,256k - 4:51)<br />
*Selected Soundbites:<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part6.avi Interviews with the cast and crew] (30,336k - 12:31) <br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part1.avi Trailer - Version #1] (5,038k - 1:21)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part2.avi Trailer - Version #2] (2,320k - 0:35)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part5.avi Film Clips] (9,950k - 4:19)<br />
*This Next video is a cool little bonus from the B-Roll. It includes the only known footage of Merlin's scenes. Merlin was a small holographic AI character that was voiced by Mark Hamill and set to accompany Blair along his adventure. Ultimately he was removed from the film and condensed into limited interaction between Blair and the Rapier's cockpit computer. This scene isn't in the extended workprint. The press kit has music and b-roll audio on individual audio tracks so the sequence's music has been removed to make this easier to hear. <br />
**Download the clip [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/merlin_clip.avi HERE] (5.1 meg avi).<br />
<br />
=WATCH=<br />
<br />
<br />
==TRAILERS==<br />
<br />
<br />
The two trailers on the EPK don't amount to much more than TV Spots and run about 30 seconds each. In fact the video portion of each is identical. <br />
<br />
Trailer 1 has narration. The music, dialogue and sound effects are in the left hand audio channel and the Narration will play in the right.<br />
<br />
Trailer 2 has no narration with the dialogue and sound effects in the left hand audio channel and the music separated into the right channel.<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 1===<br />
[[File:EPK_trailer1.mp4]]<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 2===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/EPK_trailer2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==FEATURETTE==<br />
<br />
Similar to the way the audio is separated with the trailers these two featurettes are pretty much the same. The first featurette has not only text explaining who is speaking but narration is provided separated from the music and effects in the right audio channel. The Second has no text, no naration, and again the music is separated out into the right hand audio channel.<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITH TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_with_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITHOUT TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_no_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==CLIPS==<br />
<br />
===NAVCOM ONLINE===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip1.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===NEVER EXISTED===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===BATTLE STATIONS===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip3.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==INTERVIEWS==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Freddy Prinze Jr. - Blair===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_freddy_prinze_jr.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Matthew Lillard - Maniac===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_matthew_lillard.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Saffron Burrows - Angel===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_saffron_burrows.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Tchéky Karyo - Paladin===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_tchéky_karyo.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Roberts - Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_roberts.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Todd Moyer - Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_todd_moyer.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Peter Lamont - Production Designer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_peter_lamont.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Charles Lee - Supervising Art Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_charles_lee.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Brown - Visual Effects Supervisor===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_brown.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Eric Strauss - Visual Effects Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_eric_strauss.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==UNEDITED B-ROLL==<br />
<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/B-Roll.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Wing_Commander_Electronic_Press_Kit&diff=37614Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit2019-10-27T06:11:11Z<p>AD: /* DOWNLOAD */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox File <br />
| name = Wing Commander - Electronic Press Kit (M4V)<br />
| faction = terran<br />
| download = [[download:=http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v|Download]]<br />
| filesize = {{filesize|394240}}<br />
| runtime = 37:22}}<br />
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<br />
=DOWNLOAD=<br />
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<gallery mode=slideshow showthumbnails><br />
Image:WCM EPK01.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK02.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK03.png| <br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
You can download the entire video in better quality [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v HERE] or download individual segments of the EPK! :<br />
<br />
*Featurette: Clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part3.avi Featurette - with text] (16,222k - 4:47) <br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part4.avi Featurette - without text] (16,256k - 4:51)<br />
*Selected Soundbites:<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part6.avi Interviews with the cast and crew] (30,336k - 12:31) <br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part1.avi Trailer - Version #1] (5,038k - 1:21)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part2.avi Trailer - Version #2] (2,320k - 0:35)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part5.avi Film Clips] (9,950k - 4:19)<br />
*This Next video is a cool little bonus from the B-Roll. It includes the only known footage of Merlin's scenes. Merlin was a small holographic AI character that was voiced by Mark Hamill and set to accompany Blair along his adventure. Ultimately he was removed from the film and condensed into limited interaction between Blair and the Rapier's cockpit computer. This scene isn't in the extended workprint. The press kit has music and b-roll audio on individual audio tracks so the sequence's music has been removed to make this easier to hear. <br />
**Download the clip [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/merlin_clip.avi HERE] (5.1 meg avi).<br />
<br />
=WATCH=<br />
<br />
<br />
==TRAILERS==<br />
<br />
<br />
The two trailers on the EPK don't amount to much more than TV Spots and run about 30 seconds each. In fact the video portion of each is identical. <br />
<br />
Trailer 1 has narration. The music, dialogue and sound effects are in the left hand audio channel and the Narration will play in the right.<br />
<br />
Trailer 2 has no narration with the dialogue and sound effects in the left hand audio channel and the music separated into the right channel.<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 1===<br />
[[File:EPK_trailer1.mp4]]<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 2===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/EPK_trailer2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==FEATURETTE==<br />
<br />
Similar to the way the audio is separated with the trailers these two featurettes are pretty much the same. The first featurette has not only text explaining who is speaking but narration is provided separated from the music and effects in the right audio channel. The Second has no text, no naration, and again the music is separated out into the right hand audio channel.<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITH TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_with_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITHOUT TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_no_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==CLIPS==<br />
<br />
===NAVCOM ONLINE===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip1.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===NEVER EXISTED===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===BATTLE STATIONS===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip3.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==INTERVIEWS==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Freddy Prinze Jr. - Blair===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_freddy_prinze_jr.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Matthew Lillard - Maniac===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_matthew_lillard.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Saffron Burrows - Angel===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_saffron_burrows.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Tchéky Karyo - Paladin===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_tchéky_karyo.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Roberts - Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_roberts.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Todd Moyer - Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_todd_moyer.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Peter Lamont - Production Designer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_peter_lamont.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Charles Lee - Supervising Art Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_charles_lee.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Brown - Visual Effects Supervisor===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_brown.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Eric Strauss - Visual Effects Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_eric_strauss.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==UNEDITED B-ROLL==<br />
<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/B-Roll.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Wing_Commander_Electronic_Press_Kit&diff=37613Wing Commander Electronic Press Kit2019-10-27T06:10:52Z<p>AD: /* DOWNLOAD */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox File <br />
| name = Wing Commander - Electronic Press Kit (M4V)<br />
| faction = terran<br />
| download = [[download:=http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v|Download]]<br />
| filesize = {{filesize|394240}}<br />
| runtime = 37:22}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=DOWNLOAD=<br />
<br />
<gallery mode=slideshow|showthumbnails><br />
Image:WCM EPK01.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK02.png| <br />
Image:WCM EPK03.png| <br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
You can download the entire video in better quality [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_epk.m4v HERE] or download individual segments of the EPK! :<br />
<br />
*Featurette: Clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part3.avi Featurette - with text] (16,222k - 4:47) <br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part4.avi Featurette - without text] (16,256k - 4:51)<br />
*Selected Soundbites:<br />
**[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part6.avi Interviews with the cast and crew] (30,336k - 12:31) <br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part1.avi Trailer - Version #1] (5,038k - 1:21)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part2.avi Trailer - Version #2] (2,320k - 0:35)<br />
*[http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm-part5.avi Film Clips] (9,950k - 4:19)<br />
*This Next video is a cool little bonus from the B-Roll. It includes the only known footage of Merlin's scenes. Merlin was a small holographic AI character that was voiced by Mark Hamill and set to accompany Blair along his adventure. Ultimately he was removed from the film and condensed into limited interaction between Blair and the Rapier's cockpit computer. This scene isn't in the extended workprint. The press kit has music and b-roll audio on individual audio tracks so the sequence's music has been removed to make this easier to hear. <br />
**Download the clip [http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/merlin_clip.avi HERE] (5.1 meg avi).<br />
<br />
=WATCH=<br />
<br />
<br />
==TRAILERS==<br />
<br />
<br />
The two trailers on the EPK don't amount to much more than TV Spots and run about 30 seconds each. In fact the video portion of each is identical. <br />
<br />
Trailer 1 has narration. The music, dialogue and sound effects are in the left hand audio channel and the Narration will play in the right.<br />
<br />
Trailer 2 has no narration with the dialogue and sound effects in the left hand audio channel and the music separated into the right channel.<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 1===<br />
[[File:EPK_trailer1.mp4]]<br />
<br />
===TRAILER 2===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/EPK_trailer2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==FEATURETTE==<br />
<br />
Similar to the way the audio is separated with the trailers these two featurettes are pretty much the same. The first featurette has not only text explaining who is speaking but narration is provided separated from the music and effects in the right audio channel. The Second has no text, no naration, and again the music is separated out into the right hand audio channel.<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITH TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_with_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===FEATURETTE WITHOUT TEXT===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/featurette_no_text.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==CLIPS==<br />
<br />
===NAVCOM ONLINE===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip1.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===NEVER EXISTED===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip2.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===BATTLE STATIONS===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/clip3.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
==INTERVIEWS==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Freddy Prinze Jr. - Blair===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_freddy_prinze_jr.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Matthew Lillard - Maniac===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_matthew_lillard.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Saffron Burrows - Angel===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_saffron_burrows.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Tchéky Karyo - Paladin===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_tchéky_karyo.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Roberts - Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_roberts.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Todd Moyer - Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_todd_moyer.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Peter Lamont - Production Designer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_peter_lamont.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Charles Lee - Supervising Art Director===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_charles_lee.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Chris Brown - Visual Effects Supervisor===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_chris_brown.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
===Eric Strauss - Visual Effects Producer===<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/wcm_interview_eric_strauss.flv</mediaplayer><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==UNEDITED B-ROLL==<br />
<br />
<mediaplayer>http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcm/B-Roll.flv</mediaplayer><br />
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[[Category:Wing_Commander_Movie]]</div>ADhttps://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/index.php?title=Gmovie-Nov98-Das_erfolgreiche_computerspiel_schafft_den_weg_in_die_kinos_Wing_Commander_der_film&diff=37612Gmovie-Nov98-Das erfolgreiche computerspiel schafft den weg in die kinos Wing Commander der film2019-10-27T06:06:48Z<p>AD: </p>
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German article about the making of the Wing Commander movie<br />
<br />
Translation by Philip Hadviger<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wing Commander The Movie==<br />
<br />
The successful computer game makes its way into the theaters<br />
<br />
<br />
Who doesn't know the gigantic Space Odyssey "Wing Commander" which made it onto Store shelves year after year just in time for Christmas? The space simulation, which by now has achieved Cult Status, topped itself game after game. The first part was small enough to fit on a few floppies, whereas the last two parts of this impressive Epic required up to 4 CDs for its Hollywood quality Movie scenes. These scenes, which were shown in between the single Missions, featured such known Actors as Mark Hamil (Luke Skywalker from "Star Wars") or Malcolm McDowell ("Star Trek - Generations").<br />
<br />
Creator and Producer Chris Roberts could now finally make his dream come true - "Wing Commander" made it to the Big Screen.<br />
<br />
<br />
==The Movie:==<br />
<br />
<br />
Pegasus is a converted Asteroid of the Confederation, on which Space travelers can relax from their everyday routine at one of the many artificial beaches. But the peace and quite doesn't last very long, as the evil Kilrathi, aliens that look like a combination of Humans and Cats, arrive at this location. On Board of one of the Kilrathi-Battleships is a "Pilgrim", a Human who doesn't belong to the Confederation. This "Pilgrim" betrays the people of "Pegasus" and with the help of one Kilrathi Warrior, he steals the navigation computer of the enclave, which contains valuable Positional data. Afterwards the Colony is destroyed by the Kilrathi.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Navigation computer allows the Kilrathi to sneak behind the Confederation's borders and attack Earth directly. The Confederation's mission is to find this Computer and to stop the Kilrathi before they can attack Earth.<br />
<br />
<br />
Admiral Tolwyn (David Warner) sends an encrypted Message to Lt. Chris Blair (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), a young fighter pilot who is fresh out of the Space academy. Blair is a "Half-Pilgrim", who attempts to use his genetically inherited ability, which gives him full orientation in Space. This ability comes in handy, as the ships in the "Wing Commander" universe have to travel great distances through so called "Jump Points" (Jump points through Hyper space).<br />
<br />
<br />
Blair and is friend Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Mathew Lillard) are onroute to their first mission on the Battleship "Tiger Claw". On the Trade freighter "Diligent" they come upon the mysterious Captain Paladin (Tcheky Karyo), who allows Blair to fly through the secret "Jump Point" Scylla, which is located at the edges of a Black Hole - a dangerous undertaking. But Blair manages to complete the trip, which usually takes 6 months, in just 3 minutes even though he nearly destroys his ship in the process. When they finally arrive at the "Tiger Claw", Blair discovers the beautiful "Angel" Deveraux (Saffron Burrows), who, as it turns out later on, is the person in direct command of him as a "Wing Commander". He also meets the Captain of the Ship, Sansky (David Suchet) and his first officer, Gerald (Jurgen Prochnow), who doesn't hide his antipathy against Blair's "Pilgrim" Background.<br />
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Just a little later, Paladin navigates the "Tiger Claw" through a "Jump Point" to a small brown Dwarf Asteroid, where Blair flies his first Mission. During the patrol trough a nearby Asteroid belt, Blair and Deveroux find and destroy two Kilrathi-fighters, which where hiding out in the area. Deveroux gets an order from Sansky to continue the sweep of the area to find any other Kilrathi ships. After not detecting any other vessels, Paladin, suspecting a trap, orders the fighters to return to the "Tiger Claw". This first encounter is only the beginning of the Battle, in which the fate of the Earth will be decided. In addition the lines between good and bad are blurred because a traitor is aboard the "Tiger Claw"....<br />
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==The Production:==<br />
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Filming occurred from February until April 1998 in Luxemburg, a pretty exotic film location for Americans. Producer Todd Moyer was full of enthusiasm about the Studios: "In the USA we could have never made a movie like 'Wing Commander' for only 25 million dollars - here it is no problem at all!" Moyer, who also worked on movies like "The Mask". "Timecop" and "Barb Wire", believes that Luxemburg offers great possibilities and discounts for this type of movie: "The Audience for this movie has very high expectations, and we are trying our best to make the movie look more expensive. In the USA 50 Million Dollars would have been a requirement." Todd guides the visitors through the studio and explains the very realistic sets of the "Tiger Claw's" Flightdecks. The buildings used to be part of an Ammunitions Factory and were just recently used as a Gothic Cathedral from the movie "American Werewolf in Paris".<br />
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In the background Technicians are working on the "Rapiers" - the fighters of the "Tiger Claw", which are lined up in the Hangar. These Fighters weren't just made out of wood, no, they are the old bodies of British airplanes, which were modified with Metal, Wood and Plastic in order to act as Trailer size space fighters. When one hits the fighter's body, one can feel the steel. These very massive fighters should be sold once the filming is complete because it would be a shame to recycle them.<br />
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Other interesting Space vehicles include a "Space Bulldozer" and a Tanker, both recycled from the movie "Judge Dredd".<br />
The tour continues and Moyer points out a Storage room which is full of containers and piles of boxes and the walls are covered with Monitors, Cables and other lines - all very realistic looking. All of it came from the mind of the Oscar nominated ("Titanic") production designer Peter Lamont and his colleagues. "The small and confined areas on board of the "Tiger Claw" remind me of 'The Boat in Space'" says Peter Lamont.<br />
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A few minutes away from the Studio building is the Hotel Intercontinental Luxemburg, a gigantic Hotel, which is right at the end of the main street. The Hotel is completely packed with more than 200 Crew members of the Film. On the 4 floor they have an editing room and a Computer animation studio. From the they send daily updates with the latest data to Digital Anvil, the Animation Firm in Austin, Texas. It looks like the Post Production of the movie is happening simultaneously with the filming, but all this work is necessary to combine the endless special effects with the movie.<br />
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==The Actors:==<br />
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Freddie Prinze Jr. (Blair)<br />
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His latest role was in the movie "I know what you did last Summer", alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Prince also starred in the movies "House of Yes" and in "To Gillian on her 37 Birthday" with Michelle Pfeiffer. Freddie was born and grew up in Albuquerque. His acting career didn't start until after school and his move to Los Angeles. He had small parts in the TV shows like "Family Matters", "The Watcher" and "Detention". He loves Computer games and Science-Fiction. "When I was a kid I watched Science-Fiction 24 hours a day 7 days a week. My bought my first 'Wing Commander' game when I was 15 years old and I was completely blown away, so obviously I bought all of the sequels that followed."<br />
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Saffron Burrows (Deveraux)<br />
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The British Actress started her career in theater at the age of 17. She is known though movies like "Hotel de Love", "One Night Stand" and "In the name of the Father" with Daniel Day Lewis. She just finished filming "The Loss of Sexual Innocence", in which she played twins who were separated at birth and grow up and Italy and England respectively. She really liked her role in "Wing Commander": "It is a really different role from all the other movies I have done, where I usually play women who have some kind of problem! My character in 'Wing Commander' is completely different, she is very hard, cold and direct, but deep down very passionate.<br />
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Mathew Lillard (Maniac)<br />
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His first big role in the Big Screen was a Stuart in the movie "Scream". His next two projects were "S.L.C. Punk" and "Senseless" (in which he play a Hockey Player). He also portrayed the serial killer in "Hackers" and appeared in the TV movie "If these walls could talk". Then role in "Wing Commander" was a real challenge for the Californian actor.<br />
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Jurgen Prochnow (Gerald)<br />
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Compared to all the other actors, Jurgen Prochnow has been in this business for a while. In many roles include appearances in "Legendender Leidenshaft" with Brad Pitt, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinnas well as "Body of Evidence" with Madonna, "The Boat", "Dune", "Das7. Zeichen" and even a role in the "Wing Commander" related game "Privateer 2: The Darkening".<br />
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