a new life. Cast Matt Damon as Cale Tucker, a yard-salvager who carries the map to Titan in his ring. Alex D. Linz as Young Cale Tucker Bill Pullman as Captain Joseph Korso, former soldier and captain of the Valkyrie. John Leguizamo as Gune, an amphibian-like Grepoan and Korso's chief scientist. Nathan Lane as Preedex "Preed" Yoa, a fruit bat-like Akrennian and Korso's first mate. Janeane Garofalo as Stith, a kangaroo-like Sogowan and munitions officer of the Valkyrie. Drew Barrymore as Akima Kunimoto, pilot of the Valkyrie and Cale's love interest. Ron Perlman as Professor Sam Tucker, Cale's father who helped develop Project Titan. Tone Lōc as Tek, Sam Tucker's blind alien friend who raises Cale after Sam left. Jim Breuer as the Cook, a cockroach-like alien who works at Tau 14. Christopher Scarabosio as the Drej Queen who fears the potential threat of humans and intends to destroy them. Jim Cummings as Chowquin, Cale's overseer at the salvage yard. Charles Rocket as Firrikash, an alien salvage yard worker who bullies Cale. Charles Rocket also voices a Slave Trader Guard who surprises Preed with his intelligence. Ken Hudson Campbell (credited as Ken Campbell) as Po, an alien salvage yard worker who bullies Cale. Tsai Chin as Old Woman Crystal Scales as Drifter Girl David Lander as the Mayor of New Bangkok Roger L. Jackson as the first alien Production Development In development at 20th Century Fox since 1998, Titan A.E. was originally going to be a live-action film. The script had been passed around to various writers such as Ben Edlund, Joss Whedon and Art Vitello. After $30 million had been spent in the film's early development with no progress, Art Vitello was sacked. Then-chairman of 20th Century Fox Bill Mechanic then gave the script to Fox Animation Studios creative heads Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, who were fresh from the success of their recent film Anastasia (1997). Mechanic had no scripts for Fox Animation Studios to work on and was faced with the choice of laying off the animation staff unless they took Titan A.E. Despite their inexperience with the science fiction genre, Bluth and Goldman took the script regardless. Fox Animation Studios was given a production budget of $75 million and 19 months to make the film. Unlike Bluth and Goldman's previous films, the animation in Titan A.E. is predominantly computer-generated while the main characters and several backgrounds