Disney'sAtlantis
Logo ofAtlantis: The Lost Empire
Created by	Kirk Wise Gary Trousdale Joss Whedon Bryce Zabel Jackie Zabel Tab Murphy
Original work	Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Years	2001–2003
Films and television
Film(s)	Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Direct-to-video	Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
Games
Video game(s)	Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Search for the Journal (2001) Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire (2001) Disney Heroes: Battle Mode (2018) Disney Dreamlight Valley (2023)
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Miscellaneous
Constructed language	Atlantean language

Atlantis is amedia franchise owned byThe Walt Disney Company that began in 2001 with the release of the filmAtlantis: The Lost Empire, directed byGary Trousdale andKirk Wise from a screenplay byTab Murphy and produced byDon Hahn. The film was based on the legend ofAtlantis, first described in the worksTimaeus andCritias by the ancient Greek philosopherPlato.

The franchise consists of two animated films,Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) andAtlantis: Milo's Return (2003), as well as several video games based on the first film.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a theatrical film produced byWalt Disney Animation Studios—the firstscience fiction film in Disney's animated features canon.

Atlantis: Milo's Return is adirect-to-video film and is a sequel toAtlantis: The Lost Empire.

Originally, Disney was developing a theatrical sequel, but it was abandoned onceThe Lost Empire was less successful than anticipated.Gary Trousdale andKirk Wise were set to return as directors, along withDon Hahn as producer and John Sanford as story supervisor. According to Wise, the sequel would have seen most of the original characters return. The main villain was to be Helga Sinclair, who survived the events of the first film, was turned into a cyborg, and established a mercenary group to raid Atlantis.^[1]

The film was also meant to have a sequel animated series,Team Atlantis, which would have featured mythological and ancient elements such asPuck, theLoch Ness Monster, theTerracotta Army, andDemona, a character fromGargoyles.^[2] Because of the film's failure,Team Atlantis went unproduced. Its planned episodes were incorporated intoAtlantis: Milo's Return, with additional animation made to link them.

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• A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.
• A^Y indicates an actor appeared as a younger version of their character.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Search for the Journal is afirst-person shooter game developed byZombie Studios and published byDisney Interactive. It was released on May 1, 2001, forMicrosoft Windows.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire is a first-person shooter game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Disney Interactive. It was released on May 18, 2001, for Microsoft Windows.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is anaction-adventure game developed byEurocom Entertainment Software and published bySony Computer Entertainment for thePlayStation,^[3] and aplatform game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software for theGame Boy Color and3d6 Games for theGame Boy Advance, and published byTHQ on both consoles. The PlayStation version was released on June 12, 2001, the Game Boy Color version was released on June 14, 2001, and the Game Boy Advance version was released on September 28, 2001.^[4][5]

Milo, Kida, Vinny, Audrey, and Helga appear as playable characters in the mobile gameDisney Heroes: Battle Mode.

The Atlantean culture is a recurring element in the gameDisney Dreamlight Valley, where it is referred as the "Ancient Civilization". Various ruins based on the city of Atlantis are found in various places in the village. The diary notes of the valley's ruler (the player) are also written in theAtlantean language.^[6]

• Atlantis Submarine Voyage - AfterDisneyland closed itsSubmarine Voyage ride in 1998, there were reportedly intentions to reopen it with a new theme by 2003.^[7] Rumors circulated that Disney planned to renovate the ride to have anAtlantis: The Lost Empire theme.^[8] Any existing plans for anAtlantis-themed remodel were canceled after the film's financial failure. The attraction was re-opened in 2007 as theFinding Nemo Submarine Voyage, based on the more successful filmFinding Nemo.
• Fire Mountain - After Submarine Voyage'sMagic Kingdom counterpart,20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage, closed down in 1994, there were proposals of a new,Atlantis-inspired attraction to replace it. Among them was Fire Mountain, a volcano-themed attraction with a hybrid layout consisting of a standard rollercoaster and a suspended track. Like Submarine Voyage, the ride was cancelled due to the film's failure.^{[citation needed]}

Thesoundtrack ofAtlantis: The Lost Empire was released on May 22, 2001. It consists primarily ofJames Newton Howard's score and includes "Where the Dream Takes You", written by Howard andDiane Warren and performed byMya. It was also available in a limited edition with a3D cover depicting the Leviathan from the film. A promotional edition featuring 20 additional minutes of material was made exclusively forAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters, but was bootlegged and distributed elsewhere.

• The characters from the first film have cameo appearances in episodes of the television seriesHouse of Mouse. In the episode "Donald Wants to Fly", Rourke appears briefly among the audience, amazed to see Kida flying in a Ketak.^[9] In "Dining Goofy", Mrs. Packard appears in the audience speaking through a radio.^[10]
• The characters from the first film appear as a cameo in the short filmOnce Upon a Studio (2023) as part of the characters fromWalt Disney Animation Studios who come together to take a group photo.^[11]

TheAtlantean language is aconstructed language created byMarc Okrand forAtlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended by the script-writers to be a possible "mother language", and Okrand crafted it to include aIndo-European word stock with its own grammar, which isagglutinative and inspired bySumerian andNorth American languages.

To create this, Okrand took common characteristics of all world languages and applied them to the Proto-Indo-European language. His main source of words (roots and stems) for the language is Proto-Indo-European, but Okrand also usesancient Chinese,Biblical Hebrew, Latin, andGreek languages, along with a variety of other ancient languages or ancient language reconstruction.

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