Atlantis (franchise)

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Disney's Atlantis
Disney's Atlantis logo.png
Created by
Owner The Walt Disney Company
Years2001–present
Films and television
Film(s) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Direct-to-video Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
Games
Video game(s) List of video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Miscellaneous
Constructed language Atlantean language

Atlantis is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company. The franchise began in 2001 with the release of the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire .

Contents

Films

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a theatrical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios—the first science fiction film in Disney's animated features canon.

Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)

Atlantis: Milo's Return is a direct-to-video film and is a sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Cancelled projects

Atlantis II

Originally, Disney was developing a theatrical sequel, but it was abandoned once The Lost Empire was less successful than anticipated. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise were set to return as directors, along with Don Hahn as producer and John Sanford as story supervisor. According to Wise, the sequel would have seen most of the original characters return. The main villain was to be Helga Sinclair, who survived the events of the first film, was turned into a cyborg, and established a mercenary group to raid Atlantis. [1]

Team Atlantis

The film was also meant to have a sequel animated series, Team Atlantis, which would have featured mythological and ancient elements such as Puck, the Loch Ness Monster, the Terracotta Army, and Demona, a character from Gargoyles . [2] Because of the film's failure, Team Atlantis went unproduced. Its planned episodes were incorporated into Atlantis: Milo's Return, with additional animation made to link them.

Video games

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Search for the Journal

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Search for the Journal is a first-person shooter game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Disney Interactive. It was released on May 1, 2001, for Microsoft Windows.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire is a first-person shooter game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Disney Interactive. It was released on May 18, 2001, for Microsoft Windows.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is an action-adventure game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation, [3] and a platform game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software for the Game Boy Color and 3d6 Games for the Game Boy Advance, and published by THQ on both consoles. The PlayStation version was released on June 12, 2001, the Game Boy Color version was released on June 14, 2001, and the Game Boy Advance version was released on September 28, 2001. [4] [5]

Disney Heroes: Battle Mode

Kida, Milo, Audrey, Helga, and Vinny appear as playable characters in the mobile game Disney Heroes: Battle Mode.

Disney Dreamlight Valley

The Atlantean culture is a recurring element in the game Disney Dreamlight Valley , where it is referred as the "Ancient Civilization". Various ruins based on the city of Atlantis are found in various places in the village. A diary in the game is also written in the Atlantean language. [6]

Proposed attractions

Music

The soundtrack of Atlantis: The Lost Empire was released on May 22, 2001. It consists primarily of James Newton Howard's score and includes "Where the Dream Takes You", written by Howard and Diane Warren and performed by Mya. It was also available in a limited edition with a 3D cover depicting the Leviathan from the film. A promotional edition featuring 20 additional minutes of material was made exclusively for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters, but was bootlegged and distributed elsewhere.

Atlantean language

The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended by the script-writers to be a possible "mother language", and Okrand crafted it to include a Indo-European word stock with its own grammar, which is agglutinative and inspired by Sumerian and North American languages.

To create this, Okrand took common characteristics of all world languages and applied them to the Proto-Indo-European language. His main source of words (roots and stems) for the language is Proto-Indo-European, but Okrand also uses ancient Chinese, Biblical Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages, along with a variety of other ancient languages or ancient language reconstruction.

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