Atlantis (franchise)

• Atlantis Submarine Voyage - After Disneyland closed its Submarine Voyage ride in 1998, there had reportedly been intentions to reopen the attraction with a new theme by 2003. [6] Rumors circulated that Disney was planning to renovate the ride to have an Atlantis theme. Fan speculation may have been fueled by a banner which very briefly hung nearby the closed-down ride, reading "Atlantis Expedition Imagineering Preparation Base".[7] Any existing plans for an Atlantis themed remodel were canceled quickly after the movie’s disappointing release at the box office in 2001. The attraction was re-opened in 2007 as the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, its theme based on the extremely successful 2003 Disney·Pixar animated film Finding Nemo.
• Fire Mountain - After the Submarine Voyage's Magic Kingdom counterpart, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage, closed down in 1994, four years before Disneyland's, there were proposals of a new attraction that would take its place with one of them, a volcano attraction inspired by that film's Vulcania location, being approved for the Magic Kingdom's Adventureland area. Around 1999, during development of Atlantis, it was decided that it would be themed to the movie with it taking place in 1916, two years after the film's events, which would have focused on Preston Whitmore, a character from the film, seeking to make Atlantis' existence public and offer expeditions to visitors in newly developed vehicles. However, due to mishaps, the vehicles would be forced to make a detour through the lava-filled caverns of the volcano. The attraction would have used a unique hybrid ride system, in which it would start as a standard coaster before the trains hook up to a suspended track midway through to fly through the caverns. The attraction would have been accessed by a new canyon path in between Pirates of the Caribbean and a re-routed Jungle Cruise that would have led to a Whitmore Enterprises base camp at the edge of the Walt Disney World Railroad path, with the mountain itself being built outside the berm. However, like the Submarine Voyage retheme above, the ride was cancelled due to the film's disappointment in the box office.

The soundtrack to Atlantis: The Lost Empire was released on May 22, 2001. It consists primarily of James Newton Howard's score and includes "Where the Dream Takes You", written by Howard and Diane Warren and performed by Mýa. It was also available in a limited edition of 20,000 numbered copies with a unique 3D album cover insert depicting the Leviathan from the film. A rare promotional edition (featuring 73 minutes of material, compared to the 53 minutes on standard commercial editions) was intended only for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters, but was bootlegged and distributed with fan-created artwork.

The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended by the script-writers to be a possible "mother language", and Okrand crafted it to include a vast Indo-European word stock with its very own grammar, which is at times described as highly agglutinative, inspired by Sumarian and North American languages.

To create this, Dr. Okrand took common characteristics of all world languages and applied them to the Proto-Indo-European language. His main source of words (roots and stems) for the language is Proto-Indo-European, but Okrand also uses ancient Chinese, Biblical Hebrew, Latin and Greek languages, along with a variety of other ancient languages or ancient language reconstruction.