Fan Casting Thunderbirds (2004)

Thunderbirds is a 2004 science fiction action-adventure film directed by Jonathan Frakes, stars Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Ron Cook, Brady Corbet and Soren Fulton, with a supporting cast of Billy Paxton, Vanessa Hudgens, Ben Torgersen, Philip Winchester, Lex Shrapnel, Dominic Colenso and Ben Kingsley based on the 1960s TV series and is the First Installment Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The film, written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers, was released on 20 July 2004 in the United Kingdom and 30 July 2004 in the United States. The film's plot concerns the Hood, who traps International Rescue (IR) leader Jeff Tracy and four of his sons on board the damaged Thunderbird 5 to steal the other Thunderbirds vehicles and commit heists that IR will be blamed for, prompting Jeff's youngest son Alan and his friends Tin-Tin and Fermat to stop him. The film received mixed reviews from critics, sime disparaged its wooden characters, and some praising it's plot, but was a box-office bomb. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson however praised it as a "great tribute" to the series.