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] originally announced the film under the ] ''1952'', and later retitled it to ''Tomorrowland'', after the ] found at ].<ref name=EW1>{{cite news|last=Breznican|first=Anthony|title=Disney's mysterious '1952' movie has a new name ... 'Tomorrowland' -- EXCLUSIVE|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/28/disneys-1952-is-tomorrowland/|accessdate=January 29, 2013|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=January 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name=OCR1>{{cite news|last=Tully|first=Sarah|title=Is 'Tomorrowland' movie tied to Disneyland area?|url=http://www.ocregister.com/news/movie-409540-disney-tomorrowland.html|accessdate=January 29, 2013|newspaper=Orange County Regsiter|date=January 28, 2013}}</ref> Bird and Lindelof's screenplay was heavily influenced by ]'s optimistic philosophy of innovation and ], such as his conceptual vision for the ] known as ].<ref name=Premiere>{{cite news|last1=Flores|first1=Terry|title=Disney Throws Lavish ‘Tomorrowland’ Bash at Disneyland — With George Clooney|url=http://variety.com/2015/scene/vpage/disney-tomorrowland-george-clooney-1201491841/|accessdate=May 11, 2015|work=Variety|date=May 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lang|first1=Brent|title=‘Tomorrowland’ Inspired by Walt Disney’s Vision of Utopia, Epcot Center|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/news/tomorrowland-disney-ant-man-cinemacon-1201477444/|accessdate=May 11, 2015|work=Variety|date=April 22, 2015}}</ref> The film was released on May 22, 2015.<ref name="release15"/> ] originally announced the film under the ] ''1952'', and later retitled it to ''Tomorrowland'', after the ] found at ].<ref name=EW1>{{cite news|last=Breznican|first=Anthony|title=Disney's mysterious '1952' movie has a new name ... 'Tomorrowland' -- EXCLUSIVE|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/28/disneys-1952-is-tomorrowland/|accessdate=January 29, 2013|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=January 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name=OCR1>{{cite news|last=Tully|first=Sarah|title=Is 'Tomorrowland' movie tied to Disneyland area?|url=http://www.ocregister.com/news/movie-409540-disney-tomorrowland.html|accessdate=January 29, 2013|newspaper=Orange County Regsiter|date=January 28, 2013}}</ref> Bird and Lindelof's screenplay was heavily influenced by ]'s optimistic philosophy of innovation and ], such as his conceptual vision for the ] known as ].<ref name=Premiere>{{cite news|last1=Flores|first1=Terry|title=Disney Throws Lavish ‘Tomorrowland’ Bash at Disneyland — With George Clooney|url=http://variety.com/2015/scene/vpage/disney-tomorrowland-george-clooney-1201491841/|accessdate=May 11, 2015|work=Variety|date=May 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lang|first1=Brent|title=‘Tomorrowland’ Inspired by Walt Disney’s Vision of Utopia, Epcot Center|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/news/tomorrowland-disney-ant-man-cinemacon-1201477444/|accessdate=May 11, 2015|work=Variety|date=April 22, 2015}}</ref> The film was released on May 22, 2015.<ref name="release15"/>


==Premise== ==Plot==
Frank Walker and Casey Newton are addressing the audience. They want to tell a story about the future, starting with Frank. He says that the future is scary and grim, but Casey doesn't think the story should go that way. She suggests he start when the future for him was looking brighter. In 1964, a young Frank attends New York World's Fair. He carries a heavy bag, walking past other aspiring inventors. He meets renowned inventor David Nix. Frank shows him his jet pack that he built himself. Then Frank meets a young girl named Athena. She asks him if the jet pack works. Frank tested it out, and it doesn't quite fly. Nix inquires as to how such an invention would make the world a better place. Frank answers that it's just a fun invention, and if anyone saw someone flying it, he hopes they would be inspired. Nix dismisses the jet pack and sends Frank out. In a brief flashback, we see Frank arguing with his father, who also thinks the jet pack is useless. Frank insists that he won't give up on it.
Frank (]) and Casey (]) travel to a place somewhere in time and space only known as Tomorrowland where their actions directly affect the world and themselves.<ref name="Premise">{{cite web|title=Disney's "Tomorrowland" Official Synopsis|url=http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-tomorrowland-synopsis-69003/|publisher=Stitch Kingdom|date=February 3, 2014|accessdate=February 3, 2014}}</ref>

Outside in the fair, Athena approaches Frank and slips him a pin with a T on it. She tells him to follow her and Nix as they go on the "It's A Small World" ride. Frank sneaks onto a boat, where in the tunnel, a light scans the pin on his shirt, and it takes him through an underground passageway. It leads him into a pod that transports him to a mysterious place. He steps out and sees Athena flying in a pod, waving at him. Two larger animatronic pods start to construct something, pushing Frank off the ledge. He lands on another ledge, and his jet pack falls after him, breaking apart. A big robot takes the jet pack and fixes it, then gives Frank a thumbs up. Two men come out and call after Frank, causing him to fall again. He goes to reach his jet pack as he falls through the clouds, getting a brief look at the futuristic utopia that he's been led to. He slips the jet pack on in the nick of time and soars through the air before everyone's eyes. He lands before Nix and Athena, the former still unimpressed. Athena smiles and takes his hand to guide him through what is known as Tomorrowland...and then Adult Frank says everything went to Hell.

Casey starts her story with a little more optimism. We see a video of her as a child with her parents, looking up at the stars as she names all the major ones. She wanted to go up there someday. In the present, we see Casey sneaking into a NASA launch site in Cape Canaveral. She sabotages a machine that is being used to replace certain workers, including her dad Eddie, who is an engineer. Casey leaves, not knowing that Athena is watching her. She returns home where her little brother Nate catches her sneaking back in. He promises not to tell their dad what Casey's been up to.

Athena sneaks into the Newtons' garage and gets Casey's helmet. She plants a pin like the one she gave Frank in the helmet, and then takes a strand of Casey's hair for a scan. In the morning, Casey is heading to school when she helps her dad fix a device he's been working on. Eddie has accepted that the NASA platform is shutting down, despite what Casey thinks. She tells him a story that she's always heard Sent from my iPhone

Casey tries to break in to the platform again. She uses a flying toy with a camera, only to get caught and arrested. Her dad posts her bail, and she goes to collect her items. Among them is the pin, which she has never seen before. She briefly touches it and is instantly standing in a wheat field. Casey springs up in shock, and then finds herself still in the station. She picks the pin back up and is back in the field. She looks ahead to see what looks like a big castle. She walks toward it, only to bump her head on the ceiling. Eddie picks her up and is angry. She tries to show him what the pin does, but it doesn't work on him. Casey touches it again and sees herself in the field, floating above it as she's being driven. Eddie takes it from her and tells her to stop.

That night, Casey sneaks into Eddie's room and takes the pin back. She starts walking toward the castle and falls down the stairs. She goes outside and rides her bike in the direction from where she sees the castle. Still holding the pin, she finds herself right in Tomorrowland. She sees three guys flying in jet packs. One guy crashes and lands with his suit that forms an airbag. Casey continues walking through the place and is amazed at all the inventions she sees. It appears as though the other attendants can see and interact with her. Casey then notices that the pin is counting down to less than two minutes. She rides a shuttle and is invited by one attendant to ride with her and a few others. As Casey walks toward them, it appears she's walking through water. The time on the pin runs out, and she is walking through a swamp, frustrated with the pin's limited power.

Casey runs back home and gets Nate to log into their dad's computer. He helps her find an address to a shop where they have pins like the one Casey has. She tells Nate that she saw the future, and he will get to see it, but not yet. She asks him to tell their dad that she went on a camping trip. The next morning, Athena shows up at the Newton home posing as a girl scout. Nate knows she's faking, but Athena knows that Nate is lying when he says Casey is camping. He tells Athena where she really went.

Casey goes to a shop called Blast From The Past, filled with vintage memorabilia items (and an excuse for Disney to plug "Star Wars"). She meets the two shop owners, Hugo and Ursula (Keegan-Michael Key and Kathryn Hahn). When Casey shows them the pin, they ask her if she saw something and where she found it. Casey says she got it after she was arrested, prompting Ursula to push a button. They start to ask her menacingly if she saw a girl. They then take out two plasma guns and aim them at Casey. Athena then bursts in and fights Hugo and Ursula. She fires a time sphere that traps the two in a bubble before they can kill Casey. Athena convinces Casey to follow her as she pulls her out of trouble. She then gets Ursula to impale Hugo, and then she rips off Ursula's head, revealing both of them to be robots. Athena grabs Casey and runs as the robots self-destruct and destroy the shop. Athena breaks into a car and uses a special key to take it.

Casey learns that Athena is also a robot and that she knows of what Casey has seen. She admits that she planted the pin in her helmet. Casey makes Athena stop the car and leaves. Athena follows after her and gets hit by a truck. The driver runs out, giving Casey a chance to swipe the truck. Athena gets up and runs after her before catching up and hijacking the truck herself.

The girls ride to find Frank's house. Athena takes Casey far enough to leave her right in front of Frank's house. A wild dog runs out to Casey, which turns out to be a hologram. She goes up to the door and calls Frank out. She holds the pin to the camera and then gets thrown back by a powerful blast. Frank tells Casey to go away, and that he won't tell her anything about the pin, and that he couldn't even take her to the place she saw because he's been banished from there. A team of robots goes to the burnt-down shop. They pull out Ursula's burnt robot head, revealing their nature to the cops on the scene before vaporizing them with their plasma guns.

At night, Casey sets Frank's tractor on fire, distracting him long enough for her to sneak into his house. She finds a few of Frank's inventions, including a recording device showing him as a child with Athena. He apparently tried to make her laugh but did not succeed. He still didn't seem to know that she was a robot. Frank gets back inside as Casey goes to his room where he has a bunch of monitors linked around the world, along with a countdown clock. Frank has apparently built something that is about to go off in 58 days time, bringing about the end of the world. Frank has lost all hope, but Casey hasn't, and the 100% probability meter on Frank's screen goes down a few point. The robots then show up and threaten to attack Frank if he doesn't give Casey up. They break in and attack, forcing Frank to use whatever inventions he prepared against them. Casey finds a portal machine and uses it on one robot, while Frank uses a laser trap to kill a few others. They go into the bathroom and hop in a tub where Frank ejects the tub and blows up his house. He and Casey land in the lake and run into Athena, and Frank is not very happy to see her.

Knowing that they'll be hunted, Frank brings Casey and Athena to a teleportation machine of his invention. Frank makes Casey cover her eyes with padding and then braces her for blood sugar loss. When they arrive at their destination, Casey falls to the floor. Athena fetches her a bottle of Coke, which she chugs instantly (and then chugs Frank's other bottle). They walk outside to see themselves in the Eiffel Tower. They go into a room with mannequins of Gustave Eiffel, Jules Verne, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison. They were the founder of Plus Ultra, a group of inventors dedicated to finding other dreamers and inventors with the hope of shaping the future for the better. Together, their experiments uncovered a new dimension that would become Tomorrowland. Frank brings the girls to a rocket in the tower. Three robots then come in to attack. The rocket launches into the sky, with many people watching. The pod with the three inside breaks off and blasts into the next dimension.

The three crash-land into Tomorrowland, which looks broken down and desolate. Nix, now the governor of the city, arrives, not surprised to see Frank and Athena. He takes them and Casey to his building where they stand on a platform that shows them a few seconds into the future using tachyons. They come across a monitor that shows certain events in time, in this case, Casey with Nate and Eddie a few days ago. Casey is given the chance to see into the future. She looks into Cape Canaveral at the NASA platform. As she goes through the time passing, the platform becomes practically destroyed. She looks all over the rest of the world and sees riots, natural disasters, and utter catastrophe. This is all because of Frank's device, and because he gave up when he said he wouldn't. Casey still refuses to believe this will be what happens to the world, offering another glimpse of hope.

Although upset at first, Casey comes to realize that the monitor doesn't show what WILL happen, but what COULD happen, which means they have a chance to stop Frank's doomsday device. It turns out that Nix is keeping the device going because he had shown the people of Tomorrowland the monitor featuring the destruction, saying they can stop it, but nobody listened to him. He just figured he ought to let it happen and then shape the world in his own way. Nix opens a portal to banish the three before the world ends, but Frank ends up fighting him while Athena and Casey try to use on of Frank's kiloton bombs to destroy the machine. Casey rides a platform up to throw the bomb, but she misses her chance and is forced to throw it through the portal. Two of Nix's giant robots come into the battle, with Athena programming one to fight the other. The portal is destroyed by the bomb, and part of it falls on Nix's leg, pinning him down. He attempts to shoot at Frank, which Athena sees moments before it happens, giving her a chance to jump in and take the shot herself.

Frank takes Athena to try and get repaired, but she knows her time is running out. She plays a recording of when she knew Frank as a child. She knew he was smitten by her, but she didn't know how to tell him that she was not human and therefore could not feel for him what he felt for her. She watched Frank as he grew and was banished from Tomorrowland. Athena tells Frank to use her self-destruct sequence to destroy the machine. Frank carries her with his jet pack up to the highest point. They say goodbye as Athena shuts down completely. Frank drops her into the machine, causing it explode and come crashing down on top of Nix.


==Cast== ==Cast==

Revision as of 18:57, 23 May 2015

2015 American film
Tomorrowland
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrad Bird
Screenplay by
  • Damon Lindelof
  • Brad Bird
Story by
  • Damon Lindelof
  • Brad Bird
  • Jeff Jensen
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyClaudio Miranda
Edited byWalter Murch
Music byMichael Giacchino
Production
company
Walt Disney Pictures
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08) (Disneyland premiere)
  • May 22, 2015 (2015-05-22) (United States)
Running time130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$180–190 million
Box office$9.7 million

Tomorrowland (titled Disney Tomorrowland: A World Beyond in the United Kingdom) is a 2015 American science fiction mystery adventure film directed by Brad Bird, and co-written and produced by Bird and Damon Lindelof. The film stars George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Thomas Robinson, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan-Michael Key.

Walt Disney Pictures originally announced the film under the working title 1952, and later retitled it to Tomorrowland, after the futuristic themed land found at Disney theme parks. Bird and Lindelof's screenplay was heavily influenced by Walt Disney's optimistic philosophy of innovation and utopia, such as his conceptual vision for the planned community known as EPCOT. The film was released on May 22, 2015.

Plot

Frank Walker and Casey Newton are addressing the audience. They want to tell a story about the future, starting with Frank. He says that the future is scary and grim, but Casey doesn't think the story should go that way. She suggests he start when the future for him was looking brighter. In 1964, a young Frank attends New York World's Fair. He carries a heavy bag, walking past other aspiring inventors. He meets renowned inventor David Nix. Frank shows him his jet pack that he built himself. Then Frank meets a young girl named Athena. She asks him if the jet pack works. Frank tested it out, and it doesn't quite fly. Nix inquires as to how such an invention would make the world a better place. Frank answers that it's just a fun invention, and if anyone saw someone flying it, he hopes they would be inspired. Nix dismisses the jet pack and sends Frank out. In a brief flashback, we see Frank arguing with his father, who also thinks the jet pack is useless. Frank insists that he won't give up on it.

Outside in the fair, Athena approaches Frank and slips him a pin with a T on it. She tells him to follow her and Nix as they go on the "It's A Small World" ride. Frank sneaks onto a boat, where in the tunnel, a light scans the pin on his shirt, and it takes him through an underground passageway. It leads him into a pod that transports him to a mysterious place. He steps out and sees Athena flying in a pod, waving at him. Two larger animatronic pods start to construct something, pushing Frank off the ledge. He lands on another ledge, and his jet pack falls after him, breaking apart. A big robot takes the jet pack and fixes it, then gives Frank a thumbs up. Two men come out and call after Frank, causing him to fall again. He goes to reach his jet pack as he falls through the clouds, getting a brief look at the futuristic utopia that he's been led to. He slips the jet pack on in the nick of time and soars through the air before everyone's eyes. He lands before Nix and Athena, the former still unimpressed. Athena smiles and takes his hand to guide him through what is known as Tomorrowland...and then Adult Frank says everything went to Hell.

Casey starts her story with a little more optimism. We see a video of her as a child with her parents, looking up at the stars as she names all the major ones. She wanted to go up there someday. In the present, we see Casey sneaking into a NASA launch site in Cape Canaveral. She sabotages a machine that is being used to replace certain workers, including her dad Eddie, who is an engineer. Casey leaves, not knowing that Athena is watching her. She returns home where her little brother Nate catches her sneaking back in. He promises not to tell their dad what Casey's been up to.

Athena sneaks into the Newtons' garage and gets Casey's helmet. She plants a pin like the one she gave Frank in the helmet, and then takes a strand of Casey's hair for a scan. In the morning, Casey is heading to school when she helps her dad fix a device he's been working on. Eddie has accepted that the NASA platform is shutting down, despite what Casey thinks. She tells him a story that she's always heard Sent from my iPhone

Casey tries to break in to the platform again. She uses a flying toy with a camera, only to get caught and arrested. Her dad posts her bail, and she goes to collect her items. Among them is the pin, which she has never seen before. She briefly touches it and is instantly standing in a wheat field. Casey springs up in shock, and then finds herself still in the station. She picks the pin back up and is back in the field. She looks ahead to see what looks like a big castle. She walks toward it, only to bump her head on the ceiling. Eddie picks her up and is angry. She tries to show him what the pin does, but it doesn't work on him. Casey touches it again and sees herself in the field, floating above it as she's being driven. Eddie takes it from her and tells her to stop.

That night, Casey sneaks into Eddie's room and takes the pin back. She starts walking toward the castle and falls down the stairs. She goes outside and rides her bike in the direction from where she sees the castle. Still holding the pin, she finds herself right in Tomorrowland. She sees three guys flying in jet packs. One guy crashes and lands with his suit that forms an airbag. Casey continues walking through the place and is amazed at all the inventions she sees. It appears as though the other attendants can see and interact with her. Casey then notices that the pin is counting down to less than two minutes. She rides a shuttle and is invited by one attendant to ride with her and a few others. As Casey walks toward them, it appears she's walking through water. The time on the pin runs out, and she is walking through a swamp, frustrated with the pin's limited power.

Casey runs back home and gets Nate to log into their dad's computer. He helps her find an address to a shop where they have pins like the one Casey has. She tells Nate that she saw the future, and he will get to see it, but not yet. She asks him to tell their dad that she went on a camping trip. The next morning, Athena shows up at the Newton home posing as a girl scout. Nate knows she's faking, but Athena knows that Nate is lying when he says Casey is camping. He tells Athena where she really went.

Casey goes to a shop called Blast From The Past, filled with vintage memorabilia items (and an excuse for Disney to plug "Star Wars"). She meets the two shop owners, Hugo and Ursula (Keegan-Michael Key and Kathryn Hahn). When Casey shows them the pin, they ask her if she saw something and where she found it. Casey says she got it after she was arrested, prompting Ursula to push a button. They start to ask her menacingly if she saw a girl. They then take out two plasma guns and aim them at Casey. Athena then bursts in and fights Hugo and Ursula. She fires a time sphere that traps the two in a bubble before they can kill Casey. Athena convinces Casey to follow her as she pulls her out of trouble. She then gets Ursula to impale Hugo, and then she rips off Ursula's head, revealing both of them to be robots. Athena grabs Casey and runs as the robots self-destruct and destroy the shop. Athena breaks into a car and uses a special key to take it.

Casey learns that Athena is also a robot and that she knows of what Casey has seen. She admits that she planted the pin in her helmet. Casey makes Athena stop the car and leaves. Athena follows after her and gets hit by a truck. The driver runs out, giving Casey a chance to swipe the truck. Athena gets up and runs after her before catching up and hijacking the truck herself.

The girls ride to find Frank's house. Athena takes Casey far enough to leave her right in front of Frank's house. A wild dog runs out to Casey, which turns out to be a hologram. She goes up to the door and calls Frank out. She holds the pin to the camera and then gets thrown back by a powerful blast. Frank tells Casey to go away, and that he won't tell her anything about the pin, and that he couldn't even take her to the place she saw because he's been banished from there. A team of robots goes to the burnt-down shop. They pull out Ursula's burnt robot head, revealing their nature to the cops on the scene before vaporizing them with their plasma guns.

At night, Casey sets Frank's tractor on fire, distracting him long enough for her to sneak into his house. She finds a few of Frank's inventions, including a recording device showing him as a child with Athena. He apparently tried to make her laugh but did not succeed. He still didn't seem to know that she was a robot. Frank gets back inside as Casey goes to his room where he has a bunch of monitors linked around the world, along with a countdown clock. Frank has apparently built something that is about to go off in 58 days time, bringing about the end of the world. Frank has lost all hope, but Casey hasn't, and the 100% probability meter on Frank's screen goes down a few point. The robots then show up and threaten to attack Frank if he doesn't give Casey up. They break in and attack, forcing Frank to use whatever inventions he prepared against them. Casey finds a portal machine and uses it on one robot, while Frank uses a laser trap to kill a few others. They go into the bathroom and hop in a tub where Frank ejects the tub and blows up his house. He and Casey land in the lake and run into Athena, and Frank is not very happy to see her.

Knowing that they'll be hunted, Frank brings Casey and Athena to a teleportation machine of his invention. Frank makes Casey cover her eyes with padding and then braces her for blood sugar loss. When they arrive at their destination, Casey falls to the floor. Athena fetches her a bottle of Coke, which she chugs instantly (and then chugs Frank's other bottle). They walk outside to see themselves in the Eiffel Tower. They go into a room with mannequins of Gustave Eiffel, Jules Verne, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison. They were the founder of Plus Ultra, a group of inventors dedicated to finding other dreamers and inventors with the hope of shaping the future for the better. Together, their experiments uncovered a new dimension that would become Tomorrowland. Frank brings the girls to a rocket in the tower. Three robots then come in to attack. The rocket launches into the sky, with many people watching. The pod with the three inside breaks off and blasts into the next dimension.

The three crash-land into Tomorrowland, which looks broken down and desolate. Nix, now the governor of the city, arrives, not surprised to see Frank and Athena. He takes them and Casey to his building where they stand on a platform that shows them a few seconds into the future using tachyons. They come across a monitor that shows certain events in time, in this case, Casey with Nate and Eddie a few days ago. Casey is given the chance to see into the future. She looks into Cape Canaveral at the NASA platform. As she goes through the time passing, the platform becomes practically destroyed. She looks all over the rest of the world and sees riots, natural disasters, and utter catastrophe. This is all because of Frank's device, and because he gave up when he said he wouldn't. Casey still refuses to believe this will be what happens to the world, offering another glimpse of hope.

Although upset at first, Casey comes to realize that the monitor doesn't show what WILL happen, but what COULD happen, which means they have a chance to stop Frank's doomsday device. It turns out that Nix is keeping the device going because he had shown the people of Tomorrowland the monitor featuring the destruction, saying they can stop it, but nobody listened to him. He just figured he ought to let it happen and then shape the world in his own way. Nix opens a portal to banish the three before the world ends, but Frank ends up fighting him while Athena and Casey try to use on of Frank's kiloton bombs to destroy the machine. Casey rides a platform up to throw the bomb, but she misses her chance and is forced to throw it through the portal. Two of Nix's giant robots come into the battle, with Athena programming one to fight the other. The portal is destroyed by the bomb, and part of it falls on Nix's leg, pinning him down. He attempts to shoot at Frank, which Athena sees moments before it happens, giving her a chance to jump in and take the shot herself.

Frank takes Athena to try and get repaired, but she knows her time is running out. She plays a recording of when she knew Frank as a child. She knew he was smitten by her, but she didn't know how to tell him that she was not human and therefore could not feel for him what he felt for her. She watched Frank as he grew and was banished from Tomorrowland. Athena tells Frank to use her self-destruct sequence to destroy the machine. Frank carries her with his jet pack up to the highest point. They say goodbye as Athena shuts down completely. Frank drops her into the machine, causing it explode and come crashing down on top of Nix.

Cast

Production

Development

The project was green-lit by Walt Disney Studios' Sean Bailey in June 2011 when Damon Lindelof signed to write and produce. In May 2012, Brad Bird was hired as director. Later that year in November, George Clooney entered negotiations to star in the film. In February 2013, Hugh Laurie joined the film.

While keeping information about the plot secret, when asked whether the project was related to the studio's development of Star Wars Episode VII in November 2012, Bird denied the claim, but confirmed Tomorrowland would be a science fiction film, with Lindelof adding in January 2013 that the film would not center on extraterrestrials.

On January 23, 2013, nearly a week before the title change, Bird posted a picture on his Twitter page related to the project. The image showed a frayed cardboard box labeled 1952, supposedly uncovered from the Walt Disney Imagineering developmental unit, and containing items like archival photographs of Walt Disney, Technicolor film, envelopes, a vinyl record, space technology literature, a 1928 copy of an Amazing Stories magazine (which introduced Philip Francis Nowlan's Buck Rogers character), and an unidentified metal object. In July 2013, Britt Robertson was cast.

On August 10, 2013, Bird and Lindelof gave a presentation at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California. They opened the "1952" box and revealed many of its contents. Later that day a pavilion was unveiled on the D23 Expo show floor which presented the items for close inspection by guests. There was also an accompanying iPhone app which took viewers through the exhibit much like one would experience a museum exhibit. Michael Giacchino was hired to compose the film music.

Filming

Principal photography commenced in Enderby, British Columbia on August 19, 2013, and also filmed in Vancouver and Surrey, ending on January 15, 2014. In October 2013, Kathryn Hahn was cast as a character named Ursula. Also in October, it was announced that part of the filming would take place in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. In November 2013, scenes depicting the Newtons' hometown were shot at New Smyrna Beach, and the Carousel of Progress attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida. On February 5, 2014, additional filming took place at the It's a Small World attraction at Disneyland in California.

Music

Songs not included in the soundtrack album, but featured in the film include "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" and "It's a Small World (After All)", both written by The Sherman Brothers.

Untitled
Track listing

All music is composed by Michael Giacchino

No.TitleLength
1."A Story About the Future"0:54
2."A Prologue"1:29
3."You’ve Piqued My Pin-Trist"3:27
4."Boat Wait, There’s More!"1:08
5."Edge of Tomorrowland"5:17
6."Casey v Zeitgeist"1:23
7."Home Wheat Home"0:42
8."Pin-Ultimate Experience"4:53
9."A Touching Tale"1:36
10."World’s Worst Shop Keepers"3:34
11."Just Get In the Car"1:42
12."Texting While Driving"0:47
13."Frank Frank"1:18
14."All House Assault"4:04
15."People Mover and Shaker"5:26
16."What An Eiffel!"6:56
17."Welcome Back, Walker!"2:31
18."Sphere and Loathing"2:21
19."As the World Burns"4:24
20."The Battle of Bridgeway"2:52
21."The Hail Athena Pass"0:59
22."Electric Dreams"4:40
23."Pins of a Feather"5:19
24."End Credits"5:26

Release

The teaser trailer for Tomorrowland was officially released on October 9, 2014. Beginning in mid-April, a sneak peek of the film was presented at Disneyland and Epcot in the Tomorrowland and Imagination Pavilion theaters, respectively. Tomorrowland held its world premiere at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California on May 9, 2015. The film was released on May 22, 2015 in theaters and IMAX.

Despite owning the trademark to the word "Tomorrowland" in the United States since 1970, Disney will release the film in the United Kingdom and several European markets such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as Tomorrowland: A World Beyond, because ID&T had previously registered the trademark in 2005, for their electronic musical festival of the same name. In compliance to Disney's ownership of the trademark in the United States, ID&T renamed the American version of their music festival as TomorrowWorld.

Reception

Box office

Tomorrowland opened in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, May 22, 2015 across 3,970 theaters, earning $9.7 million on its opening day, which was on par with Pitch Perfect 2, which also earned $9.7 million (on its second Friday). The film's Friday gross included a $725,000 during its early Thursday night showings from a limited run of 701 theaters.

Critical response

Tomorrowland has received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 49%, based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The site's consensus reads, "Ambitious and visually stunning, Tomorrowland is unfortunately weighted down by uneven storytelling." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 60 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying "Strip Tomorrowland down to its essentials, and you get an ending out of "I'd like to teach the world to sing" and a moral which boils down to: Just be positive, OK? So OK. I'm positive Tomorrowland was a disappointment." Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film two out of four stars, saying "The film never adds up to the sum of its parts, effectively a two-hour trailer for a movie I'd still be interested in seeing." Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Tomorrowland wears its big movie heart on its sleeve, which is to its advantage." A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave the film a B-, saying "Bird stages the PG mayhem with his usual grasp of dimension and space, his gift for action that's timed like physical comedy. He keeps the whole thing moving, even when it begins to feel bogged down by preachiness and sci-fi exposition." Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly gave the film a B+, saying "Bird has made a film that every child should see. And if his $190 million dream flops, he'll be asking the same question as his movie: When did it become uncool to care?" Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Though it's made with great energy and inventiveness, there's something ultimately muddy about Tomorrowland; it's as if director Brad Bird got so caught up in the sets and effects and whooshing editing that the story somehow slipped away."

Inkoo Kang of The Wrap gave the film a positive review, saying "Tomorrowland is a globe-trotting, time-traveling caper whose giddy visual whimsies and exuberant cartoon violence are undermined by a coy mystery that stretches as long as the line for "Space Mountain" on a hot summer day." A.O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, saying "It's important to note that Tomorrowland is not disappointing in the usual way. It's not another glib, phoned-in piece of franchise mediocrity but rather a work of evident passion and conviction. What it isn't is in any way convincing or enchanting." David Edelstein of New York Magazine gave the film a positive review, saying "Tomorrowland is the most enchanting reactionary cultural diatribe ever made. It's so smart, so winsome, so utterly rejuvenating that you'll have to wait until your eyes have dried and your buzz has worn off before you can begin to argue with it." Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Rapturous on a scene-by-scene basis and nearly incoherent when taken as a whole, the movie is idealistic and deranged, inspirational and very, very conflicted." Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post gave the film two out of four stars, saying "Maybe the ultimate goal of Tomorrowland remains obscure because once you know where the story is headed, you realize it's a familiar tale. The movie can conjure up futuristic images, but the story is nothing we haven't seen before."

Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Unlikely to be remembered in decades to come - or even in months to come, once the next teenage dystopian fantasy inserts itself into movie houses." Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three out of four stars, saying "A spectacular ride for most of it, and while you're a little let down at the end, you kind of want to jump back on and do it all over again." Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film two out of four stars, saying "A well-oiled machine of visuals, and yet a wobbling rattletrap of storytelling, the sci-fi fantasy Tomorrowland is an unwieldy clunker driven into the ditch at full speed." Linda Barnard of the Toronto Star gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Brad Bird presents a gorgeously wrought, hopeful future vision in Tomorrowland, infusing the family film with enough entertaining action and retro-themed whiz bang to forgive an awkward opening and third-act weakness." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, a noble failure about trying to succeed, is written and directed with such open-hearted optimism that you cheer it on even as it stumbles." James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "For a while, it doesn't matter that the plot meanders. The story seems like a jigsaw puzzle inviting us to solve it. That's the fun part. However, when the resolution is presented, it underwhelms."

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