Sky Captain CoH coincidence?
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Forbin_Project,
Posted on: 2012-01-20 24:48 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Perhaps, given that it's a theatre, it's a slightly-improperly-timed sign for Ronald Reagan's movie "Kings Row"...
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
Hard to say if one of these things directly "borowed" from the other. CoH was live for 6 months (April 2004) before Sky Captain was released (Sept 2004). Seems more likely that both the game and the Sky Captain movie got the name from the Reagan movie and used it in different ways.
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You guys are probably right. I'm more kicking myself because this is the first time I noticed it after 8 years. 
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Though I'm not certain about this, I believe that both CoH and the Reagan movie took the name from that of an actual street called "Kings Row," which was located near the original offices of Cryptic Studios. Then as in the time of the Reagan movie, Kings Row did not run through the finest neighborhood, so it became the name of a run-down part of Paragon City. I vaguely remember reading about Kings-Row-the-street in an old (I think) Jack Emmert post. That post contained no indication that anyone at Cryptic had heard of the Reagan movie.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
Hard to say if one of these things directly "borowed" from the other. CoH was live for 6 months (April 2004) before Sky Captain was released (Sept 2004). Seems more likely that both the game and the Sky Captain movie got the name from the Reagan movie and used it in different ways.
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I'd always assumed that its appearance in Sky Captain was supposed to mean that the theatre shown there was showing the Reagan movie at the time. As a previous poster noted, the dates don't quite match up, but I assume it's there to show the "period." (Of course, the background artists of Sky Captain may well have had knowledge of CoH, too; who can say for sure?)
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This has probably been mentioned somewhere before but I was just watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow again and I noticed for the first time in the scene where Gwyneth Paltrow comes out of the theater at the beginning of the giant robot attack that Kings Row is prominently displayed on a couple of signs outside.