He provided the voice for Fode, the English speaking half of the two-headed pod race commentator, in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Greg Proops is best known for his regular appearance in the improvisation comedy TV series Whose Line is it Anyway?. Astin was also in The Goonies (1985) and Memphis Belle (1990). He is most famous for his role as Samwise Gamgee in the live action The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and he also played Twoflower in the live action adaptation of Discworld's The Colour Of Magic. Sean Astin, who plays Justforkix, has appeared in two fantasy franchises that first hit the silver screen as animations and then had live action adaptations made. He has also had roles in animated films including A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, and was Auguste Gusteau in Pixar's Ratatouille. Brad Garrett is probably best known in America for being in the long-running television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. He also played Tim the Gate Guard in the animated movie Robots. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning Hollywood screen actor best known for his roles in Sideways, American Splendor, The Illusionist, Barney's Version and the TV mini-series John Adams, for which he receieved an Emmy Award. The film took four years to plan and complete, and was finally released in 2006. As A Film were a Danish company, it seemed logical for it to be an adaptation of Asterix and the Normans, a book which featured Vikings. The film impressed him and he gave permission for A Film and M6 Studios to jointly produce an Asterix film. M6 Studios had previously contacted him about the possibility of making an Asterix animated film, and hoped to find a suitable animation studio to collaborate with. In December 2001 Albert Uderzo, the surviving creator of Asterix, saw the film Help! I'm A Fish by Danish animation company 'A Film', along with representatives from France's M6 studios. With the success of Asterix and Obelix Take on Cæsar and Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra it seemed all hope of another animated Asterix film was lost. It is unsurprising, in this uncertain animation environment, that French cinema turned to making live action Asterix films, starring Gérard Depardieu, one of France's most successful and talented actors, as Obelix. Even the most traditional of studios such as Disney and Aardman embraced the new computer-generated format, with only a few stand-alone specialists such as Japan's Hayao Miyazaki resisting. These included Fox Animation Studio and Universal Animation Studios. In the following decade, animation studios such as Dreamworks Animation Studios and Blue Sky Studios that embraced CGI prospered, while those which stuck to traditional methods collapsed. It ushered in the computer generated age for animated films. The year after Asterix Conquers America, a film was released that changed animation forever – Pixar's Toy Story. This film is one of the best Asterix animated films to date, combining excellent animation and a well-developed story and characters, with obvious attention to detail prevalent throughout. Twelve years after Asterix Conquers America, Asterix and the Vikings was released. In the English version of this film (the second Asterix vehicle where the animation is synchronized to the speech of the American actors), Paul Giamatti voices Asterix, Brad Garrett voices Obelix, Evan Rachel Wood voices Abba and Sean Astin voices Justforkix.| Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods | Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion Meanwhile, Asterix and Obelix discover these developments and set off to rescue Justforkix. Justforkix is naturally terrified - but doesn't count on falling for the chief's daughter, Abba. It isn't long before Olaf overhears Justforkix's confession that he is the laziest person in the known world, and decides to kidnap the young man and throw him off a cliff to watch him fly. The Gallic men are hindered in their efforts by Justforkix's sheer lack of interest - it seems he'd rather shuffle off to the local discothèque or meet girls than fight Romans. In that locale, diminutive Viking warrior Asterix and the enormous, mustachioed strongman Obelix attempt to teach teenage layabout Justforkix (the nephew of village chief Vitalstatistix) to reinvent himself as a tireless, bellicose warrior. As Timandahaf, his counselor Cryptograf, and Cryptograf's son Olaf set forth to locate this person (christened 'The Champion of Fear,') the action shifts to the territory of Gaul. Timandahaf, the chief of the Vikings, hears the age-old maxim "Fear lends one wings," and interprets it literally - believing that the most craven person in the world can actually teach him to fly. As the eighth animated Asterix feature in thirteen years, the Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Møller-directed Asterix and the Vikings opens in Ancient Europe, at the Vikings' mountain fortress.
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