Beautiful Skies

Beautiful Skies is a 2019 Japanese-American live-action alternate history science fiction action-adventure war film based off the film and franchise of the same name. It's produced by Firebasket Studios, Venga Animation Team. Columbia Pictures helped with the production of the film. It's about three teenagers who get enlisted in the Sky Army when World War I continued through the 1920s.

Premise
The film follows three seventeen-year-olds who get enlisted to be in the first-ever Sky Army, fighting against the Central Powers. The war was still going on through the 1920s, and the Americans were desperate so they enlisted the three to help them. Unbeknownst to them, the German Empire was also thinking the same thing as the two have one thing in common, the same ship designer.

Cast

 * Ewan McGregor
 * Tom Holland
 * Taro Egerton
 * Beat Takeshi
 * Asa Butterfield
 * Joey King
 * Linda Cardellini
 * Sota Fukushi
 * Tatsuya Fujiwara

Production
It was announced in early 2017 that Firebasket Studios (then RaGE-Typewriter) received licenses to make films based on Venga properties such as Beautiful Skies, among others. Tom Holland, Joey King, Asa Butterfield were announced as the main three characters. Tatsuya Fujiwara, Beat Takeshi, Sota Fukushi was confirmed later on. In late August of 2018, Linda Cardellini, Ewan McGregor, Taron Egerton were announced later on too.

Filming took place at Sony Pictures Studios and Culver Studios in California. Filming also took place at Silvercup Studios in New York City. Filming took place from October 2017 until March 2018. Post-production took place at Venga Kyoto, Venga Seattle, and Venga Shanghai. Animal Logic also helped with visual effects alongside the Venga Studios.

Music
Brian Tyler and Tyler Bates were announced to compose the soundtrack for the film.

Release
It was announced for a summer 2020 release but was pushed forward due to The Apocalypse movie being behind the production. It was originally going to be released on September 20, 2019. Firebasket then pushed the film back forward to June 14, 2019, due to worries that Avengers Endgame would lead towards Heroes Emerge not doing great at the box office. It will be released by Sony Pictures Releasing domestically in the United States, and Universal Pictures internationally.

Box office
The film earned $16 million in its opening weekend. It is expected to earn $45 million domestically, and $30 million worldwide.

Sequel
Firebasket Studios stated that if the movie does decently at the box office and does well on home media/digital sales, that there will be a sequel to the movie to be released in the summer of 2022.