Don Hahn, producer of Disney's upcoming animated fantasy movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, told the New York Daily News that the filmmakers based the film's look on a variety of different sources. "It's a tremendous amount of study and research," Hahn told the newspaper. "We did a fair amount of Internet research, not only about the myth of Atlantis, but also the academic and archeological views."

Hahn added, "We even looked into the conspiracy-theory, black-helicopter version of Atlantis. We studied the Carlsbad caverns and a tank museum in Baltimore that had vehicles from 1914."

Cult comic-book artist Mike Mignola, creator of the graphic novel Hellboy and some Batman comics, also provided inspiration to the crew of filmmakers and artists. He came in, and our animators picked up on his style and used his visual ideas in their work, and that was inspirational," Hahn said.

Directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, Atlantis: The Lost Empire opens June 8, 2001.

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