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This title sequence was designed and created
by a company called Nexus
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here in London
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who got famous for the Catch Me If You Can titles.
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What we had found, after testing the film
a couple of times,
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was that the audience
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didn't feel it had the right to enjoy the playfulness
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until about eight minutes into the picture.
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So the brief to Nexus was,
find a way, in the title sequence,
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to let the audience know
that it will be playful, kid-friendly
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and, for people who have no idea
what the Thunderbirds are,
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perhaps to introduce the ships,
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to introduce the concept of International Rescue.
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Also introduce the colour palette -
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the primary colours were huge
in John Beard's concept
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as well as in Gerry Anderson's original.
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The primary colours were essential.
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So that sense of fun, that sense of movement
that is in the film,
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I think they captured very effectively.
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And this, Sir Ben Kingsley's eyeball,
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appears later in the picture.
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The late, great Mary Selway cast this picture.
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You'll hear the original theme music.
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For fans of the show I think the theme
and the countdown
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were as iconic and memorable
as the palm trees folding down
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and the swimming pool retracting.
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Lady Penelope and Parker
are planted in your mind here
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if you don't know who they are.
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You'll see this car in a flashback
to what you saw in the titles.
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The Academy Award-winning Marty Walsh.