Appleseed Ex Machina
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Appleseed Ex Machina is a 2007 Japanese animated
CG
film and is the sequel
to the 2004 Appleseed film, similarly directed by Shinji Aramaki
, and was produced by Hong Kong
director and producer John Woo
. It was released on October 20, 2007 in Japan and made its American premiere at the Jules Verne
Adventures Film Festival in Los Angeles on December 15, 2007. The MPAA has Appleseed Ex Machina rated PG-13 for action/violence and brief strong language, though the first film was rated R for some violence. It was released in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 11, 2008, for DVD
and Blu-Ray, and released for HD DVD
on April 1, 2008. It was released in Europe on May 30, 2008 on DVD, with HMV
releasing a 2-disc DVD special edition box set in Ireland and the UK, while Blu-Ray edition was released on June 2, 2008. In July 2008, the film was released theatrically in Australia as part of an anime film festival screening known as REEL ANIME hosted by Madman Entertainment
, however it was the Japanese version. The film was shown theatrically along with other films such as Vexille
and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in various selected cinemas throughout the country. The film was released on DVD in Australia in September 2008.
officials as hostages. ESWAT skilfully manage to secure the hostages and eliminate the cyborgs, but upon interrogation of one of the damaged ones, it self-destructs. Briareos shields Deunan from the blast, but he is damaged doing so. Shortly afterwards, they return to Olympus, where Briareos is confined to hospital until he recovers, while his partner Deunan continues ESWAT work. On one assignment, she deals with a disgruntled construction worker on a rampage in his Land-mate, who has just been fired. An ESWAT squad arrive just as she finishes, where her commanding officer Lance introduces Deunan to her new partner, Tereus. Although Deunan is at first uninterested, she is shocked when Tereus exits his Land-mate to reveal that he looks remarkably like pre-Cyborg Briareos.
Deunan confronts Lance for an explanation, and is given the tour of the new Bioroid production facility (Built to replace the one destroyed in Appleseed). During the tour, Hitomi, a bioroid that Deunan befriended during those events, is mentioned to now be a minister of political affairs). Here it is shown that Tereus is actually a Bioroid; a prototype for a whole new production line of Bioroids to be soldiers without negative emotions to impact their judgment in fighting. As his physical and mental strength was found to be most desirable in E-SWAT, Briareos' DNA was used mostly in Tereus' design. Reluctantly, Deunan is partnered up with Tereus to evaluate his performance. While departing, Deunan encounters Hitomi and is given a ride home by her. Deunan notices that many Olympus citizens are wearing Connexus; a device on their ears, which project holographic data over the eyes.
Deunan, Lance and Hitomi visit Briareos, still recovering in hospital. Here, Lance states that out of the last five terrorist incidents, four of them have been by groups of just cyborgs, with transmitted signals from surrounding locations, thus suggesting that digitally vulnerable cyborgs are actually being manipulated to perform these acts. Because many of these cyborgs consist of parts made by Poseidon, a multinational industrial conglomerate, an emissary is sent to Prime Minister Athena. The emissary denies Poseidon blame, but Olympus still boycotts them, which Poseidon finds undesirable as other world powers may follow suit.
Meanwhile, Hitomi hosts a birthday party, in which Deunan is happy to find Briareos attending now that he's fully recovered. Briareos encounters Tereus for the first time, which makes him uncomfortable but the two accept each other. Briareos also accepts Deunan's new partnership with Deunan, and has found someone other than Deunan to partner with, which makes her upset. She storms off, but is eventually joined by Tereus, who displays many of Briareos' personality traits, which by Deunan's own admission makes her feel "confused."
The next day, Athena and the world leader discuss of making a global security network by merging all the satellites worldwide to prevent terrorist attacks before that happen. ESWAT and the police forces sets up barricades around the conference hall. At ES.W.A.T HQ, an unknown signal what detected. Soon enough, a variety of vehicles and non-cyborg humans begin to assault the conference, much to the confusion of ESWAT and the police. Even more strangely, Meanwhile, Aeacus kills a engineer an ES.W.A.T ship, saying "We will all be one, I am Halcon" and destroys it to escape with a Land-Mate, as Briareos notices this. Briareos tries to stop Aeacus but ends up killing him. As Deunan and Tereus arrive, Tereus discovers the unknown signal was coming from robotic doves. At the same time, the unknown signal disappears, and the attackers collapse. A funeral is held sometime later for Aeacus.
At the same time all the satellites are joined, Briareos is nearly run down by an unmanned vehicle. He stops it but sudden goes berserk and hacks into a public terminal, crashing the main satellite control, forcing Olympus to switch to a backup. Briareos is hospitalized, with the unknown signal ruled out as the cause of his outburst. Briareos gets suspicious of his cyborg doctor, Richard Kestner, who operated on him after his accident. He has Hitomi look up his files, learning that Kestner once worked with Poseidon's Halcon Laboratories but all records of his project are mysteriously erased. Briaereos breaks out and tracks down Kestner, who confesses that he is part of a plan to "unify" humanity through erasing individuality, which he attributes to the source of human conflict. He then reveals that he secretly injected Briareos with nanites designed to take control of his body when his adrenaline heats up. Kestner then commits suicide before the police arrive, making them think that Briareos killed him. Briareos escapes, before being cornered by Tereus. Deunan arrives just on scene with an antidote designed to suppress the nanites.
Unfortunately, the virus Kestner placed in the backup network takes control of the satellites and through them all people linked to the Connexus, having them riot against Olympus. Believing that Poseidon knows something about all this, Briareos, Tereus and Deunan track down a Poseidon convoy to learn about Halcon. As they discover, Halcon was once the leading scientific laboratory until they started mind control experiments, which Poseidon was forced to end when the project lead Elizabeth Xander was killed in an accident. Poseidon assists the ESWAT officers in infiltrating the fortress where the Halcon signal is transmitting. Once they are in the control center, they discover that Xander was resurrected as cyborg to control all those linked to the Connexus. After destroying her, freeing all the enthralled, they escape the collapsing fortress and return to Olympus.
in Houston, Texas
. The cast were made up of actors from ADV Films
.
In this film, two of Deunan's costumes were designed
by Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada
. Prada was apparently already a fan of the first Appleseed movie, and she jumped at the chance to work on the second installment. At a press conference for the film, she said:
contest
in December 2007 to promote the release of the film. The contest's aim was to have fans
remix the Appleseed Ex Machina trailer into new short videos, using clips from the film and songs from the soundtrack
. Fans could put these assets together into new short videos within an editing program on the contest site. Visitors to the site then voted on their favorite video, with the creator of the winning video winning a trip to WonderCon
2008. The contest ended February 7, 2008.
Following the release of the film, Hot Toys
released 1/6 scale poseable action figures of Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires.
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
CG
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....
film and is the sequel
Sequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
to the 2004 Appleseed film, similarly directed by Shinji Aramaki
Shinji Aramaki
is a Japanese anime director and mechanical designer, born in Fukuoka Prefecture. He was a member of Artmic.He is noted for work on powered exoskeletons and his mecha and CG design on several anime series.-As director:...
, and was produced by Hong Kong
Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...
director and producer John Woo
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
. It was released on October 20, 2007 in Japan and made its American premiere at the Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
Adventures Film Festival in Los Angeles on December 15, 2007. The MPAA has Appleseed Ex Machina rated PG-13 for action/violence and brief strong language, though the first film was rated R for some violence. It was released in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 11, 2008, for DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and Blu-Ray, and released for HD DVD
HD DVD
HD DVD is a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video.Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format...
on April 1, 2008. It was released in Europe on May 30, 2008 on DVD, with HMV
HMV
His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...
releasing a 2-disc DVD special edition box set in Ireland and the UK, while Blu-Ray edition was released on June 2, 2008. In July 2008, the film was released theatrically in Australia as part of an anime film festival screening known as REEL ANIME hosted by Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes international films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia and New Zealand. The company is owned by Funtastic Limited and is one of the major entertainment companies in Australia. It employs 130 people and has an annual...
, however it was the Japanese version. The film was shown theatrically along with other films such as Vexille
Vexille
is a 2007 Japanese CGI anime film, written, directed, and edited by famed Ping Pong director Fumihiko Sori, and features the voices of Meisa Kuroki, Yasuko Matsuyuki, and Shosuke Tanihara....
and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in various selected cinemas throughout the country. The film was released on DVD in Australia in September 2008.
Plot
Some time after the events of the Appleseed incident, ESWAT, with members Deunan and Briareos, infiltrate a cathedral somewhere outside of Olympus. Inside the cathedral, a terrorist group of cyborgs have taken top-ranking EUEuropean Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
officials as hostages. ESWAT skilfully manage to secure the hostages and eliminate the cyborgs, but upon interrogation of one of the damaged ones, it self-destructs. Briareos shields Deunan from the blast, but he is damaged doing so. Shortly afterwards, they return to Olympus, where Briareos is confined to hospital until he recovers, while his partner Deunan continues ESWAT work. On one assignment, she deals with a disgruntled construction worker on a rampage in his Land-mate, who has just been fired. An ESWAT squad arrive just as she finishes, where her commanding officer Lance introduces Deunan to her new partner, Tereus. Although Deunan is at first uninterested, she is shocked when Tereus exits his Land-mate to reveal that he looks remarkably like pre-Cyborg Briareos.
Deunan confronts Lance for an explanation, and is given the tour of the new Bioroid production facility (Built to replace the one destroyed in Appleseed). During the tour, Hitomi, a bioroid that Deunan befriended during those events, is mentioned to now be a minister of political affairs). Here it is shown that Tereus is actually a Bioroid; a prototype for a whole new production line of Bioroids to be soldiers without negative emotions to impact their judgment in fighting. As his physical and mental strength was found to be most desirable in E-SWAT, Briareos' DNA was used mostly in Tereus' design. Reluctantly, Deunan is partnered up with Tereus to evaluate his performance. While departing, Deunan encounters Hitomi and is given a ride home by her. Deunan notices that many Olympus citizens are wearing Connexus; a device on their ears, which project holographic data over the eyes.
Deunan, Lance and Hitomi visit Briareos, still recovering in hospital. Here, Lance states that out of the last five terrorist incidents, four of them have been by groups of just cyborgs, with transmitted signals from surrounding locations, thus suggesting that digitally vulnerable cyborgs are actually being manipulated to perform these acts. Because many of these cyborgs consist of parts made by Poseidon, a multinational industrial conglomerate, an emissary is sent to Prime Minister Athena. The emissary denies Poseidon blame, but Olympus still boycotts them, which Poseidon finds undesirable as other world powers may follow suit.
Meanwhile, Hitomi hosts a birthday party, in which Deunan is happy to find Briareos attending now that he's fully recovered. Briareos encounters Tereus for the first time, which makes him uncomfortable but the two accept each other. Briareos also accepts Deunan's new partnership with Deunan, and has found someone other than Deunan to partner with, which makes her upset. She storms off, but is eventually joined by Tereus, who displays many of Briareos' personality traits, which by Deunan's own admission makes her feel "confused."
The next day, Athena and the world leader discuss of making a global security network by merging all the satellites worldwide to prevent terrorist attacks before that happen. ESWAT and the police forces sets up barricades around the conference hall. At ES.W.A.T HQ, an unknown signal what detected. Soon enough, a variety of vehicles and non-cyborg humans begin to assault the conference, much to the confusion of ESWAT and the police. Even more strangely, Meanwhile, Aeacus kills a engineer an ES.W.A.T ship, saying "We will all be one, I am Halcon" and destroys it to escape with a Land-Mate, as Briareos notices this. Briareos tries to stop Aeacus but ends up killing him. As Deunan and Tereus arrive, Tereus discovers the unknown signal was coming from robotic doves. At the same time, the unknown signal disappears, and the attackers collapse. A funeral is held sometime later for Aeacus.
At the same time all the satellites are joined, Briareos is nearly run down by an unmanned vehicle. He stops it but sudden goes berserk and hacks into a public terminal, crashing the main satellite control, forcing Olympus to switch to a backup. Briareos is hospitalized, with the unknown signal ruled out as the cause of his outburst. Briareos gets suspicious of his cyborg doctor, Richard Kestner, who operated on him after his accident. He has Hitomi look up his files, learning that Kestner once worked with Poseidon's Halcon Laboratories but all records of his project are mysteriously erased. Briaereos breaks out and tracks down Kestner, who confesses that he is part of a plan to "unify" humanity through erasing individuality, which he attributes to the source of human conflict. He then reveals that he secretly injected Briareos with nanites designed to take control of his body when his adrenaline heats up. Kestner then commits suicide before the police arrive, making them think that Briareos killed him. Briareos escapes, before being cornered by Tereus. Deunan arrives just on scene with an antidote designed to suppress the nanites.
Unfortunately, the virus Kestner placed in the backup network takes control of the satellites and through them all people linked to the Connexus, having them riot against Olympus. Believing that Poseidon knows something about all this, Briareos, Tereus and Deunan track down a Poseidon convoy to learn about Halcon. As they discover, Halcon was once the leading scientific laboratory until they started mind control experiments, which Poseidon was forced to end when the project lead Elizabeth Xander was killed in an accident. Poseidon assists the ESWAT officers in infiltrating the fortress where the Halcon signal is transmitting. Once they are in the control center, they discover that Xander was resurrected as cyborg to control all those linked to the Connexus. After destroying her, freeing all the enthralled, they escape the collapsing fortress and return to Olympus.
Cast
The English version dub was produced at Amusement Park MediaSeraphim Digital Studios
Seraphim Digital is an audio and video post-production studio, located in Houston, Texas. It was formerly called Amusement Park Media before it was sold off by A.D. Vision. The studio is best known for producing English language dubs of anime and Japanese films released by ADV Films and Sentai...
in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
. The cast were made up of actors from ADV Films
A.D. Vision
A.D. Vision was an American international multimedia entertainment company headquartered in Houston, Texas, prior to its collapse and distress sale to four other Houston-based companies in 2009...
.
| Role | Japanese voice actor Seiyu Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and... |
English voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Deunan Knute Deunan Knute is a character and the main protagonist from the science fiction manga Appleseed and its adaptations in anime. Along with her partner Briareos Hecatonchires, she is one of ESWAT's most important members. Known for her tendency to anger and lack of patience, Deunan is still widely appreciated by her... |
Ai Kobayashi Ai Kobayashi is a Japanese voice actress from Adachi, Tokyo. She is affiliated with HeaT.-Television animation:*Detective Conan *Ergo Proxy *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart *InuYasha... |
Luci Christian Luci Christian Louisa Michelle Christian is an American voice actress and ADR Script Writer who is affiliated with Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000... |
| Briareos Hecatonchires Briareos Hecatonchires is a character from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed manga and its adaptations in anime. He is one of the two protagonists of the series, the other being Deunan Knute. Briareos is a trained ESWAT officer, his point man is Deunan. They met in her father's SWAT unit before World War III broke out.... |
Kōichi Yamadera Koichi Yamadera is a Japanese voice actor, actor, tarento, narrator, master of ceremonies and impressionist from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school, and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment. Before that, he was affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's... |
David Matranga |
| Tereus | Yūji Kishi | Illich Guardiola Illich Guardiola Illich Auyapah Guardiola is an American actor and voice actor for ADV Films, Funimation Entertainment, and Seraphim Digital.-Anime roles:* A.D. Police - Paul Sanders* Air Gear – Kaito Wanijima... |
| Athena | Gara Takashima Gara Takashima is a Japanese voice actress who works for Across Entertainment. She is married to Banjō Ginga.- Anime :* Hild in Ah! My Goddess: Everyone Has Wings* Julia in Cowboy Bebop* Eri Kisaki in Detective Conan... |
Allison L. Sumrall |
| Nike | Rei Igarashi Rei Igarashi is a Japanese actress and voice actress who works for Office Osawa. Her real name is , and she is married to fellow seiyū Shō Hayami.-Notable voice roles:*Ryoko Naruse in Shangri-La *Mistress Centipede in Inuyasha*Hawkgirl in Justice League... |
Shelley Calene-Black Shelley Calene-Black Shelley Calene-Black is an American actress and voice actress who has worked for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000... |
| Hitomi | Miyuki Sawashiro Miyuki Sawashiro is a female Japanese voice actress and singer who works for Mausu Promotion.She voiced Puchiko in the English dubbed releases of Di Gi Charat the Movie and Leave it to Piyoko, making her one of the few Japanese voice actors to have reprised a role in English in addition to the original Japanese... |
Hilary Haag Hilary Haag Hilary Haag Scarborough is an American voice actress who worked for ADV Films and Seraphim Digital and currently lives in Houston, Texas. Attended Lamar Consolidated High School and went on to study English Rhetoric at Texas A&M University... |
| Commander Lance | Shinpachi Tsuji Shinpachi Tsuji is a Japanese voice actor.-Anime:*Arc the Lad *Berserk *Brain Powered *Code Geass *Digimon Tamers *Fairy Tail *Fantastic Children... |
Chris Hutchison Chris Hutchison Chris Hutchison is an American stage actor, director, teacher and voice actor. The 2011 season is his fifth year as a company member at the Alley Theatre in Houston.-Education:... |
| Manuel Aeacus | Kong Kuwata Kong Kuwata is a Japanese voice actor, television and theatrical actor, radio announcer, and gospel singer. He is an active member of the theatrical group, Lilly Boat Army 2, and the Cube Group talent agency... |
Mike MacRae Mike MacRae Mike MacRae is an American comedian and voice actor.-Biography:A native of St. Louis, Missouri, MacRae moved to Houston, Texas in 1995 where he graduated from Rice University in 1999 and started performing in the The Laff Stop. He appeared on television for the first time in 2001 with Comedy... |
| Dr. Riharuto Kestner | Takaya Hashi Takaya Hashi is a Japanese voice actor and actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. His real name is '.-Television animation:*Allison & Lillia *D.Gray-man *Elemental Gelade... |
John Gremillion John Gremillion John Michael Gremillion is an American actor and voice actor who works for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films and television series.-Anime:* 009-1 - Ivan Godunov John... |
| Yoshino | Rika Fukami Rika Fukami Rica Fukami , born August 8, 1963 in Saitama) is a Japanese voice actress and licensed hypnotherapist.She is the Japanese voice of Linka in Captain Planet and the Planeteers... |
Melissa Davis Melissa Davis Melissa Davis Magill is an American theater actress and voice actress for ADV Films and Seraphim Digital. She is known for playing Kate Ashley in Red Garden and Mai Kawasumi in Kanon.-Voice roles:*Angel Beats! - Shiina... |
| Arges | Takaya Kuroda Takaya Kuroda is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and actor. He is affiliated with the Bungaku Company, formerly with Mausu Promotion and Aoni Production. He is currently a member of 81 Produce.... |
Quentin Haag |
| Dr. Xander | Naoko Kouda Naoko Kouda ' is a seiyū who works for Mausu Promotion. She graduated from Nihon University College of Art.Her real name is ', and she was formerly credited as 幸田 奈穂子 .-Anime:*Hidamari no Ki... |
Alice Fulks Alice Fulks Alice Claire Fulks is a Texas-based voice and stage actress who got her start in voice-over work after her good friend, actor Adam Conlon, introduced her to Steven Foster, an ADR Director at ADV Films. Who cast her in her first and probably best known role as the Countess of Werdenberg in Gilgamesh... |
| Yoshitsune | Yasuyuki Kase Yasuyuki Kase ' is a Japanese voice actor who works for Ōsawa Office.-Notable voice roles:*Air Gear *Bleach *Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo *Code Geass... |
Chris Patton Chris Patton Christopher David Patton is an American voice actor who works on anime for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000... |
Motion capture actors
| Role | Mocap Mocap MOCAP, Inc. is a manufacturer of plastic products located in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1982 by Joe Miller. The company expanded in the 1990s, opening two more production plants in Missouri, and another in the Telford, United Kingdom... actor |
|---|---|
| Deunan Knute | Toyoe Sekita |
| Briareos Hecatonchires | Moki Ogawa |
| Tereus | Yoshiyuki Kamata |
| Manuel Aeacus | Taisuke Nishimura |
| Commander Lance | Michihiko Kuwagaki |
| Athena | Miyoko Hanai |
| Nike | Hideka Suzuki |
| Yoshino | Junko Hiratsuka |
| Dr. Riharuto Kestner | Inaho Miyazaki |
| Hitomi | Naoko Ito |
| Yoshitsune | PEPE Pepe -People:Pepe is a nickname for José , and an Italian surname.Pepe is a nickname for any person called José, but is also often used with different connotations. Etymologically, it derives from the name of Saint Joseph, the reputed father of Jesus. Thus 'PP' = padre putativo... |
| Aeacus' son | Tomoki Mure |
Costume design
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
by Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. She also has a Ph.D. in Political Science.Prada was born in Milan, the youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, founder of the company. According to: Forbes.com's The World's Richest People 2001: "She and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli,...
. Prada was apparently already a fan of the first Appleseed movie, and she jumped at the chance to work on the second installment. At a press conference for the film, she said:
Marketing
Warner Home Video created a trailer remixRemix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
contest
Competition
Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...
in December 2007 to promote the release of the film. The contest's aim was to have fans
Fan (person)
A Fan, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person with a liking and enthusiasm for something, such as a band or a sports team. Fans of a particular thing or person constitute its fanbase or fandom...
remix the Appleseed Ex Machina trailer into new short videos, using clips from the film and songs from the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
. Fans could put these assets together into new short videos within an editing program on the contest site. Visitors to the site then voted on their favorite video, with the creator of the winning video winning a trip to WonderCon
WonderCon
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention, held in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987.The convention was conceived by retailer John Barrett and originally held in the Oakland Convention Center, where it remained until 2003, when it moved to San...
2008. The contest ended February 7, 2008.
Following the release of the film, Hot Toys
Hot Toys
Hot Toys is a Hong Kong based production house for designing, developing, and manufacturing highly detailed collectible merchandise to worldwide markets. Established in 2000, the company initially focused on producing 1/6 military special force gear set before extending to producing toys based on...
released 1/6 scale poseable action figures of Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires.
External links
- Official Australian DVD release (English) Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) movie website
- Official North American DVD release (English) Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) movie website
- Official (Japanese) Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) movie website
- Official DVD release contest homepage
- Official webpage announcement on Twitch