Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 13, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 15:48, 28 June 2015 (UTC)



Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 American computer-animated, science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (pictured), creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and remains the most expensive video game-inspired film of all time. It features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi. The Spirits Within follows scientists Aki Ross (Wen) and Doctor Sid (Sutherland) in their efforts to free a post-apocalyptic Earth from the Phantoms, a mysterious and deadly alien race. Square Pictures rendered the film using some of the most advanced processing capabilities available at the time. It took a staff of 200 and about four years to complete The Spirits Within. The film debuted to mixed critical reception, but was widely praised for the realism of the computer-animated characters. Due to rising costs, the film greatly exceeded its original budget, reaching a final cost of $137 million, of which it recovered only $85 million at the box office. The film has been called a box office bomb and is blamed for the demise of Square Pictures.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Video-game inspired film: Never. Sci-fi film: The Fifth Element (2 April 2015).
 * Main editors: Freikorp
 * Promoted: 11 February 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: 14th anniversary of film's US release. I believe this is wikipedia's first video-game inspired film to reach featured status. It is also a film of significance in this genre, holding records as indicated by the blurb.
 * Support as nominator. Freikorp (talk) 13:33, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support although I find the picture used here odd and unnecessary. -- JDC808  ♫  16:12, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Agree with JDC about the image; why not just use File:Hironobu Sakaguchi - Tokyo Game Show 2006.jpg? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:09, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That is a much better picture - changed. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 05:27, 1 June 2015 (UTC)