Ben really found the heart of the story and created an incredible soundtrack. Simon then brought on the talents of young composer Benjamin Symons to write the music for the film. Simon also engaged the talents of 3D model maker Ian Whiston, who created and flew the animated spaceships which appear in the film. He also had help from a CGI animator called Lucas Remis ( Star Trek Discovery), who helped on the much bigger and more complex FX shots. The effects took him a further two-and-a-half years to complete. To start with, Simon had little experience in film compositing (special effects), so he had to learn from scratch by watching hours and hours of YouTube tutorial videos. However, the money didn’t come in one chunk, instead it dripped in over the next three years. As interest was quickly growing about the film, investors started to come onboard, and in 2015 larger investments were drawn to the film. With this money, they shot around 20 minutes of the final film, including all the scenes with the film’s heroine Lucy Drive and the International Space Station scenes with Michael Bott ( The Kings Speech, Darkest Hour). Over the next two years, Simon and Mark ran six more campaigns and raised around a third of the money needed to make the film in its entirety. The shoot was another huge success and significantly helped to increase the audience for the film. Director of photography Gordon Hickie ( Holby City, Inspector Lyndley Mysteries, Redcap, Leon The Pig Farmer) came in and lit the scene. To their surprise, the shoot managed to attract around 900 people, who very happily spent the night running back and forth through the city streets. Simon and his old schoolfriend and co-producer Mark Robbins set about social media, promoting the shoot which they had arranged to do in central Birmingham. He used the money from this campaign to shoot a spectacular crowd scene, where alien spaceships bombard crowds of people who flee through the city streets. The campaign was a huge success, raising £7,200. Soon after, he went back to Kickstarter and pitched his idea to the audience, this time with a target of £5,000.
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Therefore, he decided to take another approach instead of trying to raise money in large sums, he would raise smaller amounts and shoot the movie in phases, working through the film and building a devoted audience as he went along. However, a lot of people did support him during this campaign, which showed Simon that real money could be pulled together. After two months of crowdfunding, Simon was unable to raise enough to hit that target and the campaign failed. Using Kickstarter, Simon attempted to raise around £60,000 which he thought would make a good dent in getting the movie started. Thus, in 2012, he decided to try crowdfunding to see if his fanbase could help him raise the money needed to make the movie. He’d been promoting the film at many UK events such as Memorabilia and MCM Comic Con, and was clearly beginning to build a supportive fanbase. However, Simon found it very difficult to raise the funds needed to get the film made, and despite producing a spectacular pilot, which starred Steve Moyer, he was unable to secure the relevant finance. Simon came up with the idea for the film (originally called Kaleidoscope Man) back in 1999 and the film nearly went into production a few times in the early 2000s.
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The film is hugely inspired by 70s sci-fi TV and films including Doctor Who, Buck Rogers, Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999 and UFO, with the original Star Wars trilogy at the very top of the list. Invasion Planet Earth is a passion project from Midlands-based writer, editor and director Simon Cox.
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