Q: Ever wonder who or what Captain EO is?
A: Captain EO was a 3-D film that debuted at Disneyland in 1986. It starred Michael Jackson as Captain EO and Anjelica Huston as The Supreme Leader.
The film, which lasted about 17 minutes, cost more than $17 million – some estimate as much as $30 million – making it the most expensive film ever produced on a per-minute basis at the time.
Originally, Steven Spielberg was going to direct the movie, but he had to cancel. Francis Ford Coppola took the director’s reigns and George Lucas was the executive producer.
The film tells the story of Captain EO and the ragtag crew of his spaceship on a mission to deliver a gift to a wicked alien queen, the Supreme Leader, on her home world of twisted metal and steaming vents.
Captain EO’s alien crew consists of his small flying sidekick Fuzzball, the double-headed navigator and pilot Idee and Odee, robotic security officer Major Domo, a small, unamed robot who fits like a module into Major Domo, and the clumsy elephant-like shipmate Hooter who always manages to blunder the crew’s missions.
Throughout the mission, of course, Captain EO sings and dances.
By Kelly Savio, Staff Writer
– Source: www.imdb.com and www.disney.com
