PG
Mid 2003
Very Large Release.

Moderate Acceptance
High Budget.

– Directed by Patrick Gilmore
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is an animated film produced by DreamWorks SKG and released in 2003. It follows an Arabian sailor named Sinbad on a quest to find the legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the goddess of chaos, has framed him for stealing. If he fails on this quest, his friend Prince Proteus will be killed. He is accompanied by a motley crew and by the Lady Marina, a noble born who becomes very attached to Sinbad. This story takes the name Sinbad, the presence of a Roc, as well as the incident wherein Sinbad and Company encounter an island that turns out to be the back of some great sea-beast from the Arabian Nights; however, most of the setting is derived from Greek mythology.

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

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:00:13

Welcome to Sinbad, commentary track.

:00:16

This is Tim Johnson, one of the directors,
and sitting to my left is...

:00:20

Patrick Gilmore, the other director.

:00:22

I'm Mireille Soria,
one of the producers of the movie.

:00:24

We brought along a bunch of friends today.

:00:26

We brought our production designer,
our head of story...

:00:29

our head of animation
and our head of layout.

:00:32

Hi, I'm Raymond Zibach,
I'm the production designer.

:00:35

I'm Jennifer Nelson, head of story.

:00:37

I'm Kristof Serrand,
the animation supervisor.

:00:40

And last but not least, Damon O'Beirne,
the layout supervisor.

:00:43

They do sing four-part harmony
but they're going to spare you that.

:00:48

Well, we're starting our picture
with a beautiful view of the constellations...

:00:52

and Patrick and I
pored over a book of constellations...

:00:55

to pick these ones for you.

:00:59

Each of the characters in Eris' menagerie...

:01:01

are based on real constellations,
whether it's Cetus, the sea monster...

:01:05

or Draco, the dragon, or what have you.

:01:08

And this sequence went through
many iterations...

:01:11

before we finally settled on this one.
Originally, Eris even had another god...

:01:15

Janus, who sort of served
as her foil in all of this.

:01:18

But in order to draw
the conflict more sharply...

:01:21

between Sinbad and the gods,
we chose just one villain here, Eris.

:01:27

It's sort of an exposition scene...

:01:28

a scene in which we have to set up
a lot of rules of our world...

:01:31

and boy, did we have exposition
at one point.

:01:33

Eris was practically reading
an encyclopedia...

:01:36

to tell us everything about the world.

:01:38

But we found a way to cut to the quick
and have Eris simply set up her scheme.

:01:43

And visually, we had a lot of
different passes of this as well...

:01:46

because we even had a version
where it wasn't Cetus, the sea monster...

:01:49

it was a fire-breathing bull
that we threw into the water.

:01:53

Yeah, we killed Taurus at one point.

:01:56

Eris realized Taurus couldn't swim...

:01:58

and didn't make a very good villain
in an ocean movie, so she had to reset.

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