

Sid's invention in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Her spread in Maxim is closer to the original design.The Barrier Cities ( バリアシティ, Baria Shiti ?) are the result of Dr. In order to make her seem more realistic, they removed her makeup and shortened her hair.


In early drafts of the script, Aki was Cid's granddaughter.Concept art shows that Ryan would have had a robotic arm, as a Shout-Out to Barrett from Final Fantasy VII.Ming-Na Wen said she was open to continuing to provide the voice for Aki, but it's never been said whether she would have had the same voice actor.
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Since the movie tanked at the box office and Square Pictures was discontinued, the only remnants of this was a Maxim Poster of her in a bikini and footage of her interacting with live action actors on the DVD. Aki Ross was originally going to be an Animated Actress that was going to appear in other films.Tuckerization: Aki was named after Hironobu Sakaguchi's mother, who had died several years before and inspired him to think about what happened after death.Stillborn Franchise: The idea of Aki Ross being an Animated Actor and appearing in other films was destroyed by the movie's failure.Shoot the Money: The filmmakers went to great effort to avert No Flow in CGI, which was quite costly, so Aki doing a lot of Hair Flipping was to show off the technology.Ironic, considering shortly after the release of Mass Effect 2, in a PR move, Bioware executives publicly dissed the Final Fantasy franchise. Referenced by.: The technological aesthetics of Mass Effect's human armor and omni-tools were lifted from The Spirits Within, as the game's art director was a fan of the movie's style.Screenings of the film had the notable pre-9/11 teaser of Spider-Man shown.The soundtrack and DVD contained a preview for Final Fantasy X.Darkhorse Casting: Ming-Na Wen was an unconventional choice to voice Aki as she was neither a bankable star - only in a recurring role in ER - nor an established voice actress (with only Mulan to her name).Additionally, the amount of focus and money Square put into The Spirits Within also resulted in the departure of the team behind Xenogears and Chrono Cross, who went on to form Monolith Soft under Namco and develop Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos as spiritual successors respectively, before being sold to Nintendo in 2007 and subsequently developing the Xenoblade Chronicles games. And while it didn't kill Square itself, it came close enough that they were forced to merge with longtime competitor Enix shortly afterwards. The Square Pictures division also closed down after the film bombed. Creator Killer: The film's bombing is commonly cited as the reason Hironobu Sakaguchi resigned from Square.In the Mexican Spanish dub, Cid is voiced by Mexican soap opera actor Hector Bonilla.Ming-Na Wen as Aki, Alec Baldwin as Gray, Donald Sutherland as Cid, James Woods as General Hein and Steve Buscemi as Neil.One of the reasons why Square Pictures was discontinued. Box Office Bomb: Budget, $135-167 million.
