Cosmoball

Cosmoball, also known as Goalkeeper of the Galaxy[1] (Russian: Вратарь Галактики, romanized: Vratar Galaktiki) is a 2020 Russian 3D superhero space opera film written and directed by Dzhanik Fayziev is inspired by the world's fiction classics,[2][3][4][5] based on the animated series Galactik Football, with the participation of the television channel Russia-1[6] and tells about the film is set in the future, a post-apocalyptic city in a world inhabited by an intergalactic war that has shifted the planets poles. Above the city towers a huge alien ship - it's a stadium, resting the planet's fate in the hands of the willing and capable Cosmoball players defending the Earth, and the fate of the planet depending on the result of the match between earthlings and aliens.[7]

Cosmoball
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDzhanik Fayziev
Produced by
  • Sergey Selyanov (ru)
  • Dzhanik Fayziev
  • Anton Zlatopolskiy (ru)
  • Innokentiy Malinkin
Screenplay by
  • Andrey Rubanov (ru)
  • Dzhanik Fayziev
  • Drew Row
  • Twister Murchison
Based onGalactik Football
by Frederic Dybowski
Antoine Charreyron
Starring
Music byTony Neiman
CinematographyMaksim Osadchy
Edited byRod Nikolaychuk
Production
company
Distributed byNashe Kino
Release date
  • August 27, 2020 (2020-08-27) (Russia)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

Andrey Rubanov also participated in the writing of the script, and among the producers are Sergey Selyanov and Anton Zlatopolskiy. It stars Yevgeny Romantsov as Anton a goalkeeper to the national team, alongside Victoria Agalakova, Mariya Lisovaya, Ivan Ivanovich, Liza Taychenacheva, Yevgeny Mironov, and Elena Yakovleva in supporting roles.

Location filming began in 2017 and principal photography beginning that June 2 at Mosfilm Studios are produced together with a team of professional stuntmen, masters of special effects and artists who promise the most technologically, with shots taking place at Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, and will last until mid-September 2017. The film required a wide use of computer-generated imagery to portray the rare alien races and space monsters.[8]

Cosmoball is scheduled to be released in Russia by the STV Film Company on August 27, 2020, in 2D, RealD 3D formats and distributors will perform "Nashe Kino".[9][10]

Plot

What will Moscow look like if you cut off the power grid, shut down all manufacturing, and the whole world watches an interplanetary game? In the aftermath of a galactic war, which took place in proximity to Earth, the Moon was destroyed, and the poles of the planet disappeared, and now the climate of Moscow and its population resembles the anti-Utopian cyberpunk Brazil: representatives of different races and subcultures, weirdos, exotic animals, engineering miracles coexist on sun-drenched streets.

An enormous spaceship hovers over Earth-this is a stadium where competitions are held, remotely resembling modern football, but only at incredibly high speeds. The name of the game is CosmoBall. When the game is on, the whole world stops in its tracks to watch it. The players are called Athletes. They want to imitate, they are envious, they are worshiped. The outcome of each match of the game determines the fate of the planet, and therefore, when the game is going on, the world freezes, and everyone's attention is focused only on what happens at the stadium.

Cast
  • Yevgeny Romantsov as Anton (Yashin), the Earthlings football player as a goalkeeper is the Earth national cosmoball team.
  • Victoria Agalakova as Natalia 'Natasha', the Earth national cosmoball team.
  • Mariya Lisovaya as The Sirians are a feminine being, these types of aliens are peaceful.
  • Ivan Ivanovich as "Pele", the Latin American is able to focus on the game during the match, the Earth national cosmoball team.
  • Elizaveta Taychenacheva as Fan, a little girl, the Earth national cosmoball team.
  • Yevgeny Mironov as Belo, trainer-mentor to the Earth national cosmoball team.
  • Elena Yakovleva as Anton's mother
  • Mikhail Yefremov as Vasily, a police officer
  • Dmitry Nazarov as a police chief
  • Mikhail Stenin as Vasily's assistant
  • Soslan Fidarov as bedouin
  • Yevgeny Kosyrev as Sten
  • Sergey Glushkov as a cosmic monster
The Amazonian
  • Yuliya Vins as amazon U
  • Khristina Blokhina as amazon Vo
  • Valeriya Bukina as amazon Bu
  • Stanislav Rogachev as amazon Kho
The North American

Production

Development

Dzhanik Fayziev plans to make a blockbuster Cosmoball about a Russian superhero fighting alien invaders, inspired by Marvel works, Russia Today reports. Fayziev clarified that, according to the plot, people evolved and became part of a galactic society fighting creatures that look like "super-reactive turboballs", so battles with them will look like football, hence the name of the film.[11][12]

The director's chair was occupied by Dzhanik Fayziev's company Bonanza Studio, who counts at least three kinohit The Turkish Gambit (2005 film) and Furious (2017 film), the historical fantasy film. Fayziev has been nurturing the idea of this project for many years: Cosmoball is rooted in the dream of wonderful future worlds and was inspired by the world's fiction classics. He is also the co-producer and co-author of the script.[13][14]

We have been developing this project for about five years, applying a very detailed approach: the script, the characters and their images, locations, costumes, sets and, of course, graphics. In my opinion, the number of graphics and special effects in Cosmoball is more or less equal to what our industry created in the last five years. We have learned to create world standard computer graphics. However, I’ll say it again, Cosmoball, in terms of the quality of special effects, shall become a transition to a new coordinate system, to a whole new level.

—producer Sergey Selyanov

Producing the tape entrusted Sergey Selyanov, director of the STV Film Company, which was founded in 1992 in Saint Petersburg, a Russian film company founded in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, is one of Russia's most prolific and successful producers of theatrical motion pictures, has the status of the leader of Russian film production.

The operator was invited to Maksim Osadchy, known for the works Stalingrad (2013 film) and The Duelist (2016 film). The authors of the script were Twister Murchison, Drew Row and Andrey Rubanov.[15]

Casting

The main roles in the film performed by the actor Yevgeny Romantsov as a Russian athlete were cast for the main characters. Romantsov graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture (majoring in theory and methodology of football and hockey), and this experience helped him enter the character of a sports player.[16] Before getting an acting education at the German Sidakov Drama School. Romantsov took part in productions of the Gogol Center directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.

Next to him was the Russian actress Victoria Agalakova (née Glukhikh). She studied at the 85th school in Singing Lane, and at the same time she graduated from the piano school of music. Agalakova works as a theater at the Saint Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy.

They were accompanied by аctress Mariya Lisovaya, a graduate of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.

The fourth unknown actress who joined them was rhythmic gymnastics Elizaveta "Liza" Taychenacheva, an actress who previously competed in biathlon and the Children's teams of Youth Sports Schools "Youth of Moscow".[17] They were all cast because of their sporting past.

They were joined by famous actors such as Yevgeny Mironov,[18] Elena Yakovleva, Mikhail Yefremov and others.

Dzhanik Fayziev director is the most ambitious, expensive and high-tech project of all that is being shot in Russia. On the walls of the pavilion there is a blue chroma key on which backgrounds will be drawn. In one frame with live actors - virtual characters, drawn from scratch or with the help of digital capture technology acting game motion capture.

Filming

Principal photography commenced in the scenery on the territory of Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, and lasted from June 2 to mid-September 2017.

Palms, figs, creepers and crumbling facades of Moscow, dusty cars, rusty phone booth on the corner. Beside it, wrapped in colorful rags hairy merchant-a southerner. In a battered suitcase laid out the goods: a few seedy lanterns, the old clock, the bubbles with strange drugs.

All this can be seen in the pavilion No. 1 of "Mosfilm", where is now built the districts of Moscow. After a global catastrophe, the world's climate has changed, many of the countries went under water, thousands of settlers poured into Moscow, which was in the tropical zone. No jams, no grey down jackets or sullen individuals — the post-apocalyptic city looks nicer and modern.

On an area of over 3,500 square meters built transforming the scenery of the streets and interiors of post-apocalyptic Moscow, with thousands of props created by the artists specifically for the film. In the shooting involved up to 500 actors for crowd scenes, and for each stitched a unique costume. In the Studio, costume designers were delivered 1.5 tons of items lightweight summer clothing from India were delivered.

When working with images we use sophisticated prosthetics: the creation of one of the characters, Shaft, takes the artists on makeup for seven hours, the suit of silicone pads cover her whole body.[19][20]

Music

The music for this new Russian science fiction was composed by foreign composer Tony Neiman.

Post-production

For the post-production of visual effects is engaged in the studio Main Road Post, according to the company's general director Arman Yakhin.

One of the biggest challenges of the project is an incredible number of digital characters (over 50), both completely virtual and recreated using digital capture technology for actors. For this work, the walls of the Mosfilm pavilions were covered with blue chroma key, on which the backgrounds will be painted. In the first case, the actor on the court interacts with the dimensional toy, in the second - with the actor in a blue suit with inertial sensors. Thanks to the technology of augmented reality, the director can see on his monitor immediately a full-fledged image, that is, instead of a blue person - an alien.

Complement the work on creating a unique world of the picture specialists in visual effects from the studio of visual effects Main Road Post.[21]

Release

The film is known for the first premiere was January 2019, previously planned for January 24, 2019, but was delayed, but on this date the creative group had some difficulties.[22][23]

But in September 2018 it became known that the date of the show was postponed to October 17, 2019,[24] as previously assumed, the picture will be presented to viewers on August 27, 2020 due to the fact that on the long-planned date of its premiere it suddenly stood up, the Russian taking the former slot of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil will be released on October 17, 2019.[25]

Cosmoball is scheduled to be released in the Russian Federation by Nashe Kino in RealD 3D on August 27, 2020 by the STV Film Company.[26][27]

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