The Animated Disaster That Changed Cinema & Destroyed A Studio - FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN

A look back at Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, a box office bomb that destroyed a movie studio after making only one movie, but whose pioneering motion capture technology eventually changed film forever. What was the drive behind making this film? What caused it to fail? And what is the lasting legacy of The Spirits Within? Music: Official Matt Draper Channel Theme by Mono Memory Support Mono Memory: Follow/listen on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2SemMoK JOIN Mono Memory on YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ee... Bandcamp Sub - https://monomemory.bandcamp.com/music "The Quiet Earth" by Thomas Barrandon "The Outliers" by Droid Bishop Sources: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/james-mangold-dawn-of-the-jedi-star-wars-canon https://www.eurogamer.net/hironobu-sakaguchi-fantasy-man https://www.timeextension.com/features/best-of-2024-the-making-of-final-fantasy-the-spirits-within-squares-groundbreaking-box-office-bomb https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/10/04/square-pictures-shuts-down https://www.polygon.com/a/final-fantasy-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20110717103402/http://playstationjapan.tripod.com/Sakaguchi.html https://www.cnbc.com/2012/03/20/The-15-Biggest-Box-Office-Bombs.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121025002802/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/gallery/box_office_bombs?pg=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYrELdhHAWg https://www.vice.com/en/article/final-fantasy-the-spirits-within-at-15-a-potentially-prophetic-folly-of-a-video-game-movie-222/