Metroid III

Metroid III (also marketed in the United States as M3: Metroid Fusion and internationally as Metroid 3) is a 2006 science fiction fantasy action film co-written and directed by Louis Leterrier, written by Steven Zaillian and Cameron Crowne, and co-produced by Laurie MacDonald, Frank Marshall, and Neal H. Mortiz and starring Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Christoph Waltz, Tim Roth, and Jamie Lee Curtis. It is the third installment in the Metroid film series and the final film in the original Metroid trilogy, following 2003's Metroid II. In the film, Samus Aran, who travels to planet Zebes to retrieve an infant Metroid creature stolen by Ridley, leader of the Space Pirates.

Christopher Nolan, who had directed Metroid II, decided to leave the sequel to work on Batman Begins (2005). Nolan had not even defined the storyline for a third film. Michael Bay, who was initially hired as the new director, left due to personal and professional issues to work on The Island (2005), and was replaced with Leterrier. Filming took place from July 2004 to June 2005 with a budget of $150 million, and was consequently the most expensive film made at the time of its release. It had extensive visual effects created by 11 different companies.

Metroid III premiered at the Gibson Amphitheatre on March 27, 2006, and was released in the United States on April 7, 2006. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing $424 million worldwide and becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2006, behind Mission: Impossible III. Despite its financial success, Universal chose not to produce a sequel, and later rebooted the franchise with Metroid Prime and released on June 13, 2008, as the second film in the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.

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 * Charlize Theron as Samus Aran
 * Idris Elba as Anthony Higgs
 * Tim Roth as Ridley
 * Jamie Lee Curtis as Mother Brain
 * Christoph Waltz as Adam Malkovich

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