Army contingent led by General Rogard to the scrapyard to prove the Giant's existence, but Dean (having been warned by Hogarth earlier) tricks them by pretending that the Giant is one of his art pieces. Hogarth is interrogated by Mansley when he discovers evidence of the Giant after finding a photo of him next to Hogarth and brings a U.S. Hogarth enjoys his time with the Giant but is compelled to explain the concept of death to the Giant after he witnesses hunters killing a deer. Hogarth evades Mansley and leads the Giant to a junkyard owned by beatnik artist Dean McCoppin, who reluctantly agrees to keep him. Air Force pilot who died during the Korean War), and rents a room in their house to keep an eye on him. He suspects Hogarth's involvement after talking with him and his widowed mother, Annie (Hogarth's father was a U.S.

government agent named Kent Mansley to Rockwell. While there, Hogarth shows the Giant comic books and compares him to the hero Superman. When he eats railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train, the train collides with him and derails Hogarth leads the Giant away from the area, discovering that he can self-repair. Hogarth eventually befriends the Giant, finding him docile and curious. The following night, nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes investigates and finds the object, a 50-foot tall alien robot attempting to eat the transmission lines of an electrical substation.

5.2 Home media and television syndicationĭuring the Cold War, shortly after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in October 1957, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine and then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell.

In 2015, an extended, remastered version of the film was re-released theatrically, and on home video the following year. Through home video releases and television syndication, the film gathered a cult following and is widely regarded as a modern animated classic. The film was nominated for several awards, winning nine Annie Awards out of 15 nominations. Despite this, the film was praised for its story, animation, characters, the portrayal of the title character and the voice performances of Aniston, Connick Jr., Diesel, Mahoney, Marienthal and McDonald. The film significantly underperformed at the box office, grossing $31.3 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million, which was blamed on Warner Bros.' unusually poor marketing campaign and skepticism towards animated film production following the mixed critical reception and box office failure of Quest for Camelot in the preceding year.

The Iron Giant premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on July 31, 1999, and was released in the United States on August 6. Michael Kamen composed the film's score, which was performed by the Czech Philharmonic. The understaffed crew of the film completed it with half of the time and budget of other animated features.

The film was animated using traditional animation, with computer-generated imagery used to animate the titular character and other effects. The film's development began in 1994 as a musical with the involvement of the Who's Pete Townshend, though the project took root once Bird signed on as director and hired McCanlies to write the screenplay in 1996. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. The film stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant) and was scripted by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut.

The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros.

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