From Earth to the Moon
Released by Walt Disney Pictures on December 2, 2005.
Directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale
Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation aka the B-Squad
Screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
Based on the novel by Jules Verne
VOICES
David Ogden Stiers as Impey Barbicane
Jeff Daniels as Captain Nicholl
Marisa Tomei as Virginia Nicholl
Daniel Day-Lewis as Michel Ardan
From Earth to the Moon retells the classic story of Impey Barbicane's quest to build a cannon that can shoot a manned bullet...
From Earth to the Moon. The film takes many creative liberties, yet retains the time setting of the original novel, which in this case, is post-Civil War America, circa 1865. Of course, back when Verne wrote the book, space flights were roughly a century away and scientists of the era knew nothing about the moon's characteristics. Therefore, the creative liberties Disney takes with
From Earth to the Moon was to ground the scientific knowledge of the film's universe to that which had been available in Verne's day.
See
Science Marches On at TV Tropes's website if the above blurb sounds confusing.
Such liberties left critics divided, but Sci-Fi enthusiasts flocked to this film anyway.