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Title: Gen¹³

Release Year: 2000 Production Country: United States Film Director: Kevin Altieri Length: 86 Minutes Gen¹³ is a fictional superhero team and comic book series originally published by WildStorm Productions, under the Image Comics banner, which went on to become an imprint for DC Comics. The comic featured a loosely organized team of super-powered beings composed of five teens and their mentor. The comic book series premiered in 1994. It was the best-selling independent comic for nearly five years. For example, 16 of the top 100 selling comic books in 1996 were Gen¹³ titles. The series’ success stemmed from being geared thematically towards an audience of teens and twenty-somethings — as opposed to an older audience as many comic books were at the time, the art style — which was noted for being sexy and risqué, and a female protagonist who was bisexual if not a lesbian. It was ‘edgy’. Disney wanted to capitalize on the success of Gen¹³ so they bought the film rights to the property when the comic was only a few years in publication and then hired the Batman: The Animated Series director Kevin Altieri to oversee the project. Gen¹³ was produced between 1998 and 1999, with an intended direct-to-DVD release. In 2000 the animated film (sharing the same name as the comic) was given limited release. After a few select public screenings worldwide, Gen¹³ was never officially released in the US on home video as intended. Many say the film would have earned a PG-13 rating had it been officially released. The film was produced in part by Buena Vista Pictures, who are owned by Disney, and set for a 2000 release date on home video. Limited theatrical distribution (to promote the film) was to be handled by Touchstone Pictures who have released other adult/alternative Disney animated films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Gnomeo & Juliet, and Strange Magic. By the time this film was nearing completion, WildStorm Productions, publisher of the Gen¹³ comics, had been sold to DC Comics which is owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Disney decided to eat the cost of production and seal the film in their vault, rather than release and promote a property that had been acquired by a rival studio.

Further ensuring the film will remain buried in the Disney vaults is that DC’s chief rival Marvel Comics was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009. Big Hero 6, which released in 2014, is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters. Both properties feature a group of witty, savvy teen friends who rely on each other to fight their foes. Mark Hamill, famous for voicing The Joker in various Batman animated series and films, voices Gen¹³’s villain Threshold. ______________________________________________________________

Synopsis:

Caitlin Fairchild is a teenager offered a place in an institute for gifted children. She soon learns that her new school isn't really a school, but rather a military project to turn children with a special genetic structure into super soldiers. This first generation of genetically altered teens are to be used as pawns in a secret government program called Project Genesis. What they don't realize is that they have been turned into “Gen-Actives” who have superhuman powers. Three of the recruits: Caitlin, Edward Chang, and Roxy Spaulding uncover the government plot and thus release their newly activated super-human powers. After developing incredibly enhanced abilities, Caitlin and her friends rebel against the military project that created them. The threesome enlist the help of a renegade government agent and use their newfound powers to escape the military compound and rebel against the military forces trying to kill them off.

Title: Gen¹³ Release Year: 2000 Production Country: United States Film Director: Kevin Altieri Animation/Production Studios: Wildstorm Productions, Buena Vista Pictures Medium: hand-drawn animation Genre: superhero, action Length: 90 minutes original cut / 73 minutes edited cut

Released in French theaters in 1983, Revenge of the Humanoids recaps the story arc of the best episodes of the French/Japanese animated science fiction/space opera television series Once Upon a Time… Space — the final six episodes out of 26 — through a condensed 100 minute long montage feature film. Synopsis: On the way back from a routine mission, a vessel of the Galaxy Patrol, commanded by Lieutenant Pierrot, his assistant Psi, and their robot Métro, witnesses a strange phenomenon in space: monstrous ships flocking together in order to carry out gunfire exercises. The extent of the power is huge! But when the heroes decide to report it to the Omega Confederation, their ship is caught in turbulence. They then crash on a hostile primitive nearby planet. Psi is captured by humanoid robots and made a prisoner on the neighboring planet Yama, while Pierrot is saved by a group of men who live secretly in the mountains of this planet, Apis. The mountain men help Pierrot find a new spaceship on Apis and escape to Yama. Here, they must face the master of the planet and its humanoid inhabitants, the Great Computer. Several centuries ago, this computer was programmed to dominate the universe. The destruction will now begin... unless Pierrot can stop it in time! The first two images above come from inside the book La Revanche Des Humanoïdes: De nouvelles aventures de Pierrot, Psi, Métro et Maestro... D'après le film d'Albert Barillé (English Title: Revenge of the Humanoids: New adventures of Pierrot, Psi, Métro and Maestro... From the Albert Barillé film) published by Sogemo in 1983 (ISBN: 2-904310-06-1). Philippe Bouchet aka ‘Manchu’ drew the spaceships and mech. The third image above is a character art of Pierrot, Psi, and Métro found on the back cover of this book. The fourth image is the French DVD case cover art. The fifth image is from a series of promotional images released by the movie’s theatrical distributor, PlanFilm.

Title: Revenge of the Humanoids / La Revanche Des Humanoïdes

Release Year: 1983 Production Countries: France, Japan Film Director: Albert Barillé Art Director: René Borg Length: 100 Minutes Synopsis: Lieutenant Pierrot and his girlfriend & co-pilot of the vessel Libellule are on their way back to their home planet Omega with their positronic brain android Métro. This trio are the most successful team on the Galactic Patrol, the space police force for the Omega Confederation, a peaceful alliance of planets led by Pierrot’s mother, President Pierrette. What should have been a routine patrol mission turns disastrous as the three heroes unwittingly fly into space occupied by the Omega Confederation’s enemy, the Republic of Cassiopeia. They discover the Cassiopeian army ships are testing a powerful new weapon with a force capable of disintegrating a planet! The Libellule catches some reverberations from the energy blast and is sent off-course, crash-landing on the nearly-unknown primitive planet of Apis. On Apis, a partially-injured Pierrot is rescued by an underground rebel group of humans living hidden in the mountain who are at war with the hostile surface Native tribe. These rebels are also fighting against the dictatorship of robots that exist on the nearby planet Yama. They help Pierrot find a working spaceship and escape Apis, reaching Yama. Pierrot reunites with his android Métro on Yama and with the rebels penetrates obstacles en route to the central city where Psi is being held prisoner by the humanoids. While the leaders of the Republic of Cassiopeia, General The Pest and his lackey, The Dwarf, believe Yama is their ally — the planet, inhabited entirely by humanoid robots, is under control of a supercomputer. The grand computer has plans of its own not expected by the Republic of Cassiopeia — to go rogue and take control of Omega, followed by Earth. Pierrot destroys the circuit of the computer before it completes its once imagined domination of the galaxy. This 1983 French/Japanese feature-length animated film was created by editing and reassembling the final six episodes of the television series Il était une fois… l'Espace (English: Once Upon a Time… Space), a co-production of Procidis Studio in France and Eiken Studio in Japan. The series premiered between 1982 and 1983 on French television. The final six episodes were fashioned as a mini-series and were of higher production quality than the rest of the series both in terms of story and animation. The entire series was 26 episodes at 26 minutes each. The mini-series grand finale was modified into a feature-length film of approximately 100 minutes in length. The six episodes that were compiled and condensed into the film originally aired between February and April 1983 in France. However, the film was released in French theaters in January 1983, a month before the series wrapped-up. The film was intended to stand alone as its own comprehensible story, without significant prior knowledge of the series to understand the plot.

Title: Revenge of the Humanoids / La Revanche Des Humanoïdes

Release Year: 1983 Production Countries: France, Japan Film Director: Albert Barillé Art Director: René Borg Length: 100 Minutes Synopsis: Around the year 3000, Pierrot, his girlfriend Psi, and their android Métro (who has a positronic brain), inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security as members of the Galaxy Patrol. The Galaxy Patrol is the police force of the Omega Confederation, an alliance of planets, including Earth. The Omega Confederation is run by Lieutenant Pierrot’s parents, his mother President Pierrette and his father Colonel Pierre. The chief enemy of the Galatic Confederation is the militant Republic of Cassiopeia, led by General The Pest and his henchman The Dwarf. On their way back from what should have merely been a routine space travel mission, Pierrot, Psi, and Métro, the best team occupied by the Galactic Patrol, intercept a strange phenomenon in space: giant Cassiopeian ships flocking to carry out shooting exercises. The firepower deployed by these military maneuvers is gigantic, the extended range is huge — capable of obliterating entire planets! They stop to observe the military tests, and in the process of these three heroes reporting their encounter to the Omega Confederation, their vessel the Libellule is shaken-up by the turbulence of the energy blasts, and crash lands on the primitive planet of Apis. Half-hurt, Pierrot is collected and saved by the inhabitants of this planet, a group of men who live secretly in the mountains. These inhabitants are extremely anxious because they fear the humanoid robots of Yama, a nearby planet controlled by a supercomputer that is determined to conquer the universe. These underground rebels are also fighting the hostile native peoples on the surface of Apis. Psi is captured by the humanoids and taken as their prisoner to the neighboring planet Yama. As for Métro, he has disappeared. With help from those who saved him, Pierrot arrives on Yama to rescue Psi. Along the way he finds Métro underground and it is with his android friend that Pierrot tries to penetrate to the center of the secret city where Psi is being held hostage. Aided by a few of the rebels, they manage to cross the dams and roadblocks and reach the heart of the city. They release Psi and then are faced with the large computer long-ago designed to govern the whole of Earth. They then learn that their planet, Omega, is the next goal of the grand supercomputer and all must comply. While Omega are preparing for confrontation, Pierrot succeeds in approaching the computer and destroying its circuits before the computer successfully took control of its target planet. ______________________________________________________________ Il était une fois… l'Espace (English: Once Upon a Time… Space) was a French and Japanese co-produced science fiction/space opera television series which first aired on television in France between 1982 and 1983, and on TV in Japan in 1984 as Ginga Patrol PJ (English: Galaxy Patrol PJ). It was written and directed by Albert Barillé with artistic direction by René Borg. La Revanche Des Humanoïdes (English: Revenge of the Humanoids) is a compilation/condensation of episodes #21 through #26 — the final six episodes of the 26-episode series. The individual episodes were around 26 minutes in length each, and the feature film edit is approximately 100 minutes in length. According to the art director, René Borg, the film Revenge of the Humanoids was released in French theaters in January 1983, a month before the broadcast of the six-part mini-series finale to Once Upon a Time… Space premiered on French television in February 1983. The film has a feminist message as the supreme leader of the heroic, democratically elected government the Omega Confederation, is a female President, and Psi, a female space police member, is the co-protagonist.

Title: English: Revenge of the Humanoids French: La Revanche Des Humanoïdes

Release Year: 1983 Production Countries: France, Japan Film Director: Albert Barillé Art Director: René Borg Animation/Production Studios: Procidis, Eiken Medium: hand-drawn animation Genre: sci-fi, space opera Length: 100 minutes

Title: The Secret of the Selenites / Le secret des Sélénites A French feature-length animated film by Jean Image Released in 1984 76 Minutes Long In the depths of the moon lives a mysterious people, the Selenites, who have the ability to live eternally thanks to an invaluable talisman. Baron Munchausen, accompanied by his faithful friends with strange abilities, take off on board a sumptuous boat to the moon in search of the gift immortality.

Title: The Secret of the Selenites / Le secret des Sélénites

Release Year: 1984 Production Country: France Film Director: Jean Image Length: 76 Minutes The film begins in 1787. Baron Munchausen's Uncle Sirius, an astronomer, stimulates the adventurousness of his nephew. Sirius says that on the moon should live the Selenites, who know the secret of immortality. On a ship upgraded with hot air balloons, Munchausen travels with his friends to the moon and meets not only the friendly Selenites, but also a hostile alien race who also claim the secret of immortality for themselves. Finally, the Baron learns the secret of the Selenites.

Title: The Secret of the Selenites / Le secret des Sélénites

Release Year: 1984 Production Country: France Film Director: Jean Image Length: 76 Minutes Synopsis: The film follows the adventures of Baron Munchausen, who is prompted to travel to the moon by his Uncle Sirius, an astrologer convinced that it is inhabited by an ancient race called the Selenites. The Selentites incidentally possess the secret of immortality. The Baron takes up his cousin's offer and travels to the moon using a tall masted ship pulled by three hot air balloons and he is aided by his super-ability friends. When they reach the moon, they are initially placed in jeopardy as their craft lands in a crater and they fall into a subterranean sea inhabited by monsters; however, the Selentites come to rescue them and take them back to their kingdom where they meet the King and Queen of the moon. However, while he is there with his friends, the moon is invaded by the Green Meanies, led by the ostentatious Trivert, who will stop at nothing to get the talisman of eternal life for themselves. They manage to defeat the meanies and they are awarded the talisman for themselves and for Sirius — and they gain the secret of eternal life. The film ends with the Baron and Sirius at the end of the 20th Century, in a futuristic world inhabited by flying cars and skyscrapers reminiscing on their adventures.

Title: English: The Secret of the Selenites French: Le secret des Sélénites

AKA: Moon Madness / Moontrek

Release Year: 1984 Production Country: France Film Director: Jean Image Animation/Production Studios: Films Jean Image Medium: hand-drawn animation Genre: fantasy, adventure Length: 76 minutes

Title: English: Delta Space Mission Romanian: Misiunea Spatiala Delta French: La Mission Spatiale Delta Spanish: Mision Especial Delta

Release Year: 1984 Production Country: Romania Medium: hand-drawn animation Genre: sci-fi, space opera Length: 67 minutes

English: Delta Space Mission Romanian: Misiunea Spatiala Delta French: La Mission Spatiale Delta Spanish: Mision Especial Delta

Released In 1984

67 Minutes Long This is the first feature-length science fiction animated film made in Romania, a sequel and continuation to a Romanian animated series of the same name directed by Victor Antonescu, with characters drawn by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia.

English: Delta Space Mission Romanian: Misiunea Spatiala Delta French: La Mission Spatiale Delta Spanish: Mision Especial Delta This is the first feature-length science fiction animated film made in Romania, a sequel and continuation to a Romanian animated series of the same name directed by Victor Antonescu, with characters drawn by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia. Synopsis: The year is 3084, man settled interplanetary space, but space is still full of secrets... On a research mission to a newly discovered Galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, was allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain noticed that the super-brain that controlled the ship could act by itself. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist’s beauty was the reason for the brain’s odd behavior. She became its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them. Directed By: Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia Country: Romania Year: 1984 Running Time: 67 minutes

Title: English: Delta Space Mission Romanian: Misiunea Spatiala Delta French: La Mission Spatiale Delta Spanish: Mision Especial Delta

Release Year: 1984 Production Country: Romania Film Directors: Mircea Toia, Călin Cazan, Victor Antonescu Animation/Production Studios: Animafilm, Romaniafilm Medium: hand-drawn animation Genre: sci-fi, space opera Length: 67 minutes

Lensman · A Japanese feature-length animated film Released in 1984 Running Time: 107 Minutes · Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa Lensman took four years and $10 million to make. SF Shinseiki Lensman was released in Japan in 1984. Carl Macek's company, Streamline Pictures, dubbed the movie into English and released it in America as Lensman in 1990. Lensman is somewhat remarkable from a technical perspective, as it was the first anime movie to combine computer-generated animation with traditional cel animation. The movie is above-par from a technical perspective for an anime of the period. The movie is very loosely based on Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith. Based on the seminal space opera stories by E.E. Smith that eventually inspired Star Wars, the feature film directorial debut by the famed Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and one of the earliest anime movies to combine computer animation with hand-drawn cels, Lensman certainly has pedigree.

Lensman / SF Shinseiki · A Japanese production Japan Release Year: 1984 U.S. Release Year: 1990 Based on the classic science fiction novel Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith Running Time: 107 Minutes · Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa This was the first anime film to use CGI animation along with traditional hand-drawn animation. The bulk of the film was created in the traditional cel-oriented fashion (which some CG animators would call 2D) but the directors wanted some 3D/CG elements to give the film a new look. Allegedly the only feature film that had used this technology before was Tron. Co-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri later became one of the most respected names in anime, directing notable films including Wicked City (1987), Demon City Shinjuku (1988), Ninja Scroll (1993), Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000), Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007) and a director of episodes in the anthology films Neo-Tokyo (1987) and The Animatrix (2003). Reviews: "...There are some sharp visual effects here, a combination of imaginative and innovative computer animation and the traditional hand-drawn animation, and when the special effects take over the film seems to come alive." —Chris Hicks, Deseret News "Adapted from the best-selling science fiction novels of E.E. 'Doc' Smith, this superbly animated film combines detailed hand-drawn animation with state-of-the-art computer graphics." —Ken Innes, Absolute Anime "The sense of cosmic scale that Smith specialized in is something that Japanese animation does like nobody else... (This was interestingly the first anime film to feature computer animation...) The action is exciting, particularly the speeder-bike chases near the end or the escape from the Overlords stronghold. The filmmakers design a fabulous array of ships — the Boskonian fleet are black clouds lit up from inside with lights, or their planetary patrol ships that are like hollowed-out animal skulls drooping with pink innards." —Richard Scheib, The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review “An excellent example of its genre, Lensman will delight the growing ranks of Japanese cartoon fans in the United States. The storytelling and character development are minimal by Western standards, but superior to the recent Akira; and the film offers the requisite array of jazzy effects, including explosions, ray gun battles, weird-looking aliens, rapid-fire editing and computer-generated imagery.” —Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times

Lensman · A Japanese production Released in 1984 · Based on the classic science fiction novel Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith Running Time: 107 Minutes · Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa Lensman took four years and $10 million to make. Synopsis: In the 25th Century, Kimball Kinnison is an eager young pilot from a lonely agricultural planet called Mquie. Kim is living a peaceful life with his father as a farmer on their planet until one day when a runaway spaceship is detected moving at a high speed towards his father’s farm. The Galactic Fleet ship Britannia manned by Lensmen is fast approaching the planet Mquie with vital data about the location of the villainous Boskone Empire’s Devil Planet. As the spaceship is about to crash land in their corn field, Kim, being the excellent pilot that he is, boards the ship before it crashes and lands it himself, along with his companion, Van Buskirk. On board the ship they find a severely injured, dying man whom with his dying words begs Kim to take something of his to the Galactic Fleet. The man has a legendary Lens — a semi-sentient crystalline device — embedded in his hand. As the Lensman is dying, he mysteriously passes on the Lens to Kim. Kim becomes involved in a galaxywide battle between the forces of good and evil when this mysterious Lens of the Galactic Patrolman attaches itself to his wrist. It has turned Kim into a Lensman. Other than giving Kim unknown powers, it also contains vital information for the victory of the Galactic Fleet over the evil Boskone Empire. Kim must now bring the Lens to the Galactic Fleet. But this is not an easy task when Lord Helmet of the Boskone Empire is willing to use everything in his power to stop him. Pursued by the Boskonians, Kimball, and the burly engineer Van Buskirk, along with spaceship Britannia inhabitants nurse Clarissa MacDougall, and the reptilian Lensman Worzel, undergo a dangerous journey to return the information to the Galactic Patrol. Kim is soon zipping between planets on the spaceship Britannia, fighting the evil Boskone Empire with some help from the roaring Von Buskirk, and their other alien companions. Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does. Lensman is a visual adventure for the eyes. Watch as young Kim must survive the perils of the galaxy as the mysterious and frightening villains close in on his every move. With the Boskone secrets trapped within the powerful Lens Kim is gifted with, it is his responsibility to relay it to the Galatic Fleet before the Boskone Empire can catch him... but with their willingness to destroy entire worlds to get at him, does he even stand a chance?

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