Atlantis (franchise)
Atlantis is a Disney media franchise, commencing in 2001 with the theatrical release of the traditionally animated action-adventure film .
Films
Produced
''Atlantis: The Lost Empire''
is a 2001 American traditionally animated action-adventure film created by Walt Disney Animation Studios—the first science fiction film in Disney's animated features canon and the 41st overall. It was written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn.''Atlantis: Milo's Return''
, released in 2003, is Disney's twentieth animated direct-to-video sequel and is a sequel to . It was written by Thomas Hart and Henry Gilroy and co-directed by Tad Stones, Toby Shelton, and Victor Cook.Upcoming
Live-action adaptation
In July 2019, a report stated Walt Disney Pictures was developing a live-action adaptation of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Tom Holland was reportedly under consideration to star as Milo Thatch.. Reports also suggested Disney was considering Guillermo del Toro as director. However, del Toro refuted the rumors of his involvement through his Twitter account. In May 2020, another report claimed that the Atlantis remake had entered early development.Unproduced
''Atlantis II: Shards of Chaos''
Originally, Disney was developing a theatrical sequel entitled Shards of Chaos, but it was abandoned once The Lost Empire was less successful than anticipated. Other possible titles included Return to Atlantis or Let's Get Milo! It would've seen the return of Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise as directors, Don Hahn as producer, and John Sanford as story supervisor. According to Wise, the movie would've been set in the 1950's and would've seen most of the original characters return. The main villain was to be a cybernetic version of Helga Sinclair, who survived the balloon crash at the end of the first film and established her own mercenary group to raid Atlantis. Helga would've been up against Milo's friends, who would race to Atlantis in order to rescue him and presumably Kida.Unproduced television series
''Team Atlantis''
The film was also meant to provide a springboard for an animated television series entitled Team Atlantis, which would have presented the further adventures of its characters. The series would feature episodes with different legends incorporated, such as Puck, the Loch Ness Monster and the Terracotta Warriors. One of the episodes of Team Atlantis that was never animated entitled "The Last" featured an appearance by Demona from Greg Wiseman's previous Disney series Gargoyles and served as a pseudo-crossover between them. However, because of the film's under-performance at the box office the series was not produced either.On May 20, 2003, Disney ended up releasing a direct-to-video sequel film called , consisting of three episodes planned for the aborted series, with some additional animation done to link the stories more closely.
Video games
''Atlantis The Lost Empire: Search for the Journal''
is a first-person shooter game that was developed by Zombie Studios and published by Buena Vista Games, a subsidiary of Disney Interactive. It was released on May 1, 2001 for the Microsoft Windows platform and was a first-person shooter game, the first of two games based on the film developed by Zombie Studios and released for UPC labels from Kellogg's products for promotion.''Atlantis The Lost Empire: Trial by Fire''
was the second game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Disney Interactive, and was released May 18, 2001 for the Microsoft Windows platform. The game was based on the plotline of the film.''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' (PlayStation)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire is an action game developed by Eurocom for the PlayStation console which was released July 12, 2001. The player controls Milo, Audrey, Molière, Kida, and Vinny as they traverse Atlantis, unlocking its secrets. Some features in the game unlock others by finding items hidden throughout the game. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 73.83% and 73 out of 100.''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' (Game Boy)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire was released by THQ for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color. It is a platform game in which the player controls Milo and three other characters from the film across 14 levels on a quest to discover Atlantis. The game was met with average to mixed reviews upon release. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it 64.50% for the Game Boy Color version; and 55.86% and 51 out of 100 for the Game Boy Advance version.Attractions
- Atlantis Submarine Voyage - After Disneyland closed its Submarine Voyage ride in 1998, there had reportedly been intentions to reopen the attraction with a new theme by 2003. Rumors circulated that Disney was planning to renovate the ride to have an Atlantis theme. Fan speculation may have been fueled by a banner which very briefly hung nearby the closed-down ride, reading "Atlantis Expedition Imagineering Preparation Base". Any existing plans for an Atlantis themed remodel were canceled quickly after the movie’s disappointing release at the box office in 2001. The attraction was re-opened in 2007 as the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, its theme based on the extremely successful 2003 Disney·Pixar animated film Finding Nemo.
- Fire Mountain - After the Submarine Voyage's Magic Kingdom counterpart,, closed down in 1994, four years before Disneyland's, there were proposals of a new attraction that would take its place with one of them, a volcano attraction inspired by that film's Vulcania location, being approved for the Magic Kingdom's Adventureland area. Around 1999, during development of Atlantis, it was decided that it would be themed to the movie with it taking place in 1916, two years after the film's events. The ride would have focused on Preston Whitmore, a character from the film, seeking to make Atlantis' existence public and offer expeditions to visitors in newly developed vehicles. However, due to mishaps, the vehicles would be forced to make a detour through the lava-filled caverns of the volcano. The attraction would have used a unique hybrid ride system, in which it would start as a standard coaster before the trains hook up to a suspended track midway through to fly through the caverns. The attraction would have been accessed by a new canyon path in between Pirates of the Caribbean and a re-routed Jungle Cruise that would have led to a Whitmore Enterprises base camp at the edge of the Walt Disney World Railroad path, with the mountain itself being built outside the berm. However, like the Submarine Voyage retheme above, the ride was cancelled due to the film's disappointment in the box office.
Music
Atlantean language
The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film . The language was intended by the script-writers to be a possible "mother language", and Okrand crafted it to include a vast Indo-European word stock with its very own grammar, which is at times described as highly agglutinative, inspired by Sumarian and North American languages.To create this, Dr. Okrand took common characteristics of all world languages and applied them to the Proto-Indo-European language. His main source of words 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.