:04:05
Again, through testing,
:04:08
we discovered that not only
was the motorbike chase
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not establishing him as a loner
and not a member of the team
:04:15
and someone who wanted to be a Thunderbird,
:04:19
it established him as, perhaps,
the coolest kid in school on the fastest bike.
:04:24
So it defeated the purpose
of what we wanted to do for the next two hours.
:04:29
Hence, this opening,
:04:33
where he fantasises about being a Thunderbird,
:04:36
he hears about the missions
his family are participating in
:04:40
and he's stuck at school.
:04:45
Nice toupee on the headmaster. Beautifully cast.
:04:51
The teacher sets us up with just the right tone
at the beginning of the picture,
:04:56
you can tell that it's going to be a fun film
:05:00
because of the arch approach
she takes to the scenes.
:05:14
This happens to be my beautiful wife,
Genie Francis, as the newscaster.
:05:22
Our two heroes here,
Brady Corbet and Soren Fulton,
:05:27
make up two-thirds of the team
that the movie is built around.
:05:35
We cast in America for the three kids
:05:37
and we saw over 3,000 actors
and ended up with these three wonderful leads.
:05:43
Here, we see the work of Framestore
for the first time.
:05:46
Framestore, the visual effects house,
who did all of our 680 opticals.
:05:54
Most significantly, I think, these spaceships
are all computer generated
:05:59
and the lighting, the texture,
the interaction with the water,