:02:02
as well as in Gerry Anderson's original.
:02:05
The primary colours were essential.
:02:09
So that sense of fun, that sense of movement
that is in the film,
:02:14
I think they captured very effectively.
:02:18
And this, Sir Ben Kingsley's eyeball,
:02:22
appears later in the picture.
:02:25
The late, great Mary Selway cast this picture.
:02:33
You'll hear the original theme music.
:02:36
For fans of the show I think the theme
and the countdown
:02:39
were as iconic and memorable
as the palm trees folding down
:02:44
and the swimming pool retracting.
:02:49
Lady Penelope and Parker
are planted in your mind here
:02:52
if you don't know who they are.
:02:54
You'll see this car in a flashback
to what you saw in the titles.
:02:58
The Academy Award-winning Marty Walsh.
:03:01
And here's John Beard.
:03:07
In this title sequence,
we also wanted to establish Alan,
:03:10
who you just saw being dropped off at school,
:03:13
as a loner, not a member of the team.
:03:15
So there were a number
of important bits of information,
:03:19
tonally and thematically,
that we wanted to get across.
:03:24
The primary purpose - no pun intended -
:03:27
was to let the audience know
that this is a family action adventure fantasy.
:03:35
Of course, it's directed by -
look at that - Jonathan Frakes.
:03:44
Here we are at the Wharton Academy,
Massachusetts -
:03:47
actually Bushey Studios, North London.
:03:52
This opening sequence replaced
what was in the original script
:03:58
which was a motorbike chase
featuring these two guys, Alan and Fermat.