Atlantis: The Lost Empire & Milo’s Return SPECIAL TRIVIA

Atlantis: The Lost Empire & Milo’s Return SPECIAL TRIVIA

Atlantis was a movie, that was released in 2001 and its sequel , Atlantis: Milo’s Return, was released in 2003. Both of these movies are incredibly interesting and these are some fun facts:   

• Marc Okrand, who created the Atlantean language, also created the Vulcan and Klingon languages for the "Star Trek" series.
• For the sole reason that the movie was planned out as an action/adventure, the production crew wore T-shirts to work that read "ATLANTIS - Fewer songs, more explosions". How cool is that?
• One of the last Disney movies that feature someone that smokes.
• One of the first Disney films to feature an African American character as an important secondary character.
• Mike Mignola, creator of the Hellboy comic books (and also co-producer for its corresponding movie) provided many sketches for this film. Mignola was initially contacted by a Disney representative asking if he would work on the project, it I said that Mignola's first response was "How did you get my phone number?".
• The written Atlantean language is to be read from left to right, drop down a line, and read right to left, continuing this cycle. It was done to create a flowing and water-like movement reminiscent of the Atlantean culture.
• Milo references the Book of Job when describing the Leviathan. The specific verse he paraphrases is Job 41:18-19.
• In the movie there are some Atlantean spies stocking the adventurers .When the when the team first meet the Atlantean, the Atlanteans address them in French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, German, Greek, Chinese, and Taiwanese. Milo speaks to them in Atlantean, Latin and French.
• When dealing with the designing the city of Atlantis, the filmmakers wanted to avoid the concept of Atlantis as "crumbled Greek columns underwater". Instead, the filmmakers modeled their Atlantis on forms of architecture such as Southeast Asian and Mayan works.
• The spiral "Atlantis" symbol can be found hidden in many places in the movie.