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The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant
is a 1999 American
animated
science fiction
film using both
traditional animation
and
computer animation
, produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by
Brad Bird
in his
directorial debut
. It is based on the 1968 novel
The Iron Man
by
Ted Hughes
(which was published in the United States as
The Iron Giant
) and is scripted by
Tim McCanlies
. The film stars
Eli Marienthal
,
Christopher McDonald
,
Jennifer Aniston
,
Harry Connick, Jr.
,
John Mahoney
, and
Vin Diesel
. Set during the
Cold War
in 1957, the film is about a young boy named Hogarth Hughes who discovers a giant metallic robot who fell from space. With the help of a
beatnik
artist named Dean McCoppin, they have to stop the
U.S. military
and a federal agent named Kent Mansley from finding and destroying the Giant.
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