The Golden Blaze is an animated film released in 2005

2005 in film

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 written by Archie Gips

Archie Gips

Archie Gips is a New York-born filmmaker who resides in Los Angeles.Gips studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University before moving to Chicago,where he was trained at The Second City and wrote several plays and sketch...

 and directed by Bryon E. Carson. The feature, starring the voices of Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award...

 and Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Clarke Duncan is an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.- Early life :...

, had a limited theatrical run making it the first flash animation ever to be theatrically released, and is animated and stylized like a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

. It also took top honors at the prestigious 2005 Giffoni International Film Festival. It was produced by Kidtoon Films

Kidtoon Films

Kidtoon Films is a distributor of children's animated films in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of The Bigger Picture, a Cinedigm company. Formerly owned by SD Entertainment, which produces many of its releases...

, distributed by Urban Entertainment

Urban Entertainment

Urban Entertainment Group is a production company that produces African American films. Most of their releases are direct-to-video, and are released to DVD by Warner Bros. through their Warner Home Video label....

, released onto DVD by Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

 and airs on the Starz Kids & Family network often.

Main cast

• Blair Underwood
  Blair Underwood
  Blair Underwood is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award...
  
   as Gregory Fletcher/Golden Blaze
• Khleo Thomas as Jason Fletcher/Sure Shot
• Michael Clarke Duncan
  Michael Clarke Duncan
  Michael Clarke Duncan is an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.- Early life :...
  
   as Thomas Tatum/Quake
• Ricky D'Shon Collins as Leon
• Neil Patrick Harris
  Neil Patrick Harris
  Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
  
   as Comic Shop Owner
• Sanaa Lathan
  Sanaa Lathan
  Sanaa McCoy Lathan is an American actress and voice actress. She has starred in numerous movies, including the box-office hits Love & Basketball, Alien vs. Predator, Something New, and The Family That Preys. Lathan was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun...
  
  as Monica

Plot

The bond between son Jason Fletcher and father Gregory Fletcher, known throughout their town as "The Fletcher Flops", strengthens after an accident with one of Gregory's inventions grants him the superpowers of Jason's comic book hero, The Golden Blaze.

External links

• Interview with Blair Underwood about the film