''Skyrunners'' is an American-Canadian science fiction action thriller film that premiered on
Disney XD
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on November 27, 2009. It was the first
original film
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History
Original Film was started out in the early 1990s by Neal H ...
that premiered on the network.
Plot
Teenage brothers 18-year-old Nick and 14-year-old Tyler come across a small
UFO
An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are id ...
when it lands right in front of their truck on an empty road near their town. Soon after evading government agents, mainly agent Armstrong, and keeping the UFO in seclusion, Tyler undergoes dramatic physical changes and gains superhuman powers due to his dramatic trip into space via the UFO, including enhanced strength and telepathy. The situation becomes even more difficult to cover up considering Tyler is being constantly blown off by Nick, due to Nick's efforts at chasing Julie Gunn, as well as Nick having to make a science project to graduate high school and reptile-like aliens that have begun to appear and pursue Tyler. After having literally no one left to turn to, Tyler decides to tell agent Armstrong about the UFO. After agent Armstrong explains to Tyler about the effects that his trip into space had on his body, he shoots the ship with a laser gun, thereby critically damaging it, before he reveals himself to Tyler as one of the aliens in disguise and captures him.
Nick, feeling guilty for constantly doubting and ignoring Tyler, goes to the UFO hideout to apologize, but upon finding Tyler missing and the UFO damaged, he begins an attempt to repair the UFO, which has biological parts. After trying all night, he is successful and the UFO takes him to the hidden caves the aliens have made into their fortress, realizing the entrance is actually an impact crater from the aliens' crash-landing on Earth. Nick locates Tyler and helps him escape his holding cell. The brothers uncover that the aliens are planning to take over Earth by polluting the atmosphere. Tyler uses an alien explosive from the UFO to destroy the aliens and their pollution equipment, and he and Nick escape in the UFO. However, they do not succeed in destroying all the aliens, and they are chased by a surviving one (possibly Armstrong) in a more powerful version of their UFO.
After destroying the alien fighter and its pilot in a high speed, fast-paced dogfight, the UFO crashes at Nick's high school graduation. Nick then uses his fixing of the UFO as his science project, and is allowed to graduate. Nick wins Julie over and they kiss, Tyler gets a date with Katie Wallace and they get to keep the UFO. Assuming that all of the aliens were destroyed, the boys go on with their lives. However, at the end of the movie while taking the UFO for a joy-ride (with its new stereo system that Nick installed which is notably blasting the theme song of the movie, Low Day by Capra), four agent Armstrongs are seen watching them, revealing at least four of the aliens survived and are plotting another attack on them and the human race, thus leaving the possibility of a sequel.
Cast
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Kelly Blatz
Kelly Steven Blatz (born June 16, 1987) is an American actor, director, writer, producer, editor and musician. He is best known for playing the lead role in ''Aaron Stone''.
Career
Blatz made his acting debut in ''Simon Says'' (2006), then app ...
as Nick Burns
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Joey Pollari
Joey Pollari (born April 9, 1994) is an American actor who became well known for his role as Eric Tanner on ABC's second season of '' American Crime'', and in 2018, appeared in the film '' Love, Simon'', as Lyle, one of Simon's potential boyfrie ...
as Tyler Burns
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Linda Kash
Linda Kash (born 17 January 1961) is a Canadian actress.
Career
An alumna of Second City, she played Trudy Weissman in the 1998 Jean Smart sitcom '' Style & Substance''. She has also played various roles in popular television series, such as ' ...
as Robin Burns
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Conrad Coates
Conrad Coates (born July 12, 1970) is a British-born Canadian actor and teacher. He is best known for his roles as Morgan in '' The Dresden Files'' and in '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' as Jimmy Brooks' father.
Biography
Early life
Coate ...
as Agent Armstrong
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Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (born 17 April 1987) is a Canadian actress, musician and television personality. For playing fashion executive and heiress Steffy Forrester Finnegan in the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (2008–present) ...
as Julie 'Smoking' Gunn
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Nathan Stephenson
Nathan Stephenson (born July 27, 1986) is a Canadian actor best known for his starring roles in ''Radio Free Roscoe'' as Robbie McGrath and in '' System Crash'' as James Alexander. He has also guest starred on ''Naturally, Sadie
''Natural ...
as Darryl Butler
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Aisha Dee
Aisha Dee (born 13 September 1993) is an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her main roles as Desi Biggins on the children's television series ''The Saddle Club'' (2008–09) and Kat Edison on the Freeform comedy-drama televi ...
as Katie Wallace
Promotion
A teaser trailer for the film was released on DisneyXD.com to promote it.
[DisneyXD.com - Videos]
/ref> On November 13, the song "Low Day", a song for the movie, aired in world premiere on Radio Disney
Radio Disney was an American radio network operated by the Disney Radio Networks unit of Disney Branded Television within the Disney General Entertainment Content, headquartered in Burbank, California.
The network broadcast music programming ...
and Disney XD. The song is performed by Capra, a band that Kelly Blatz
Kelly Steven Blatz (born June 16, 1987) is an American actor, director, writer, producer, editor and musician. He is best known for playing the lead role in ''Aaron Stone''.
Career
Blatz made his acting debut in ''Simon Says'' (2006), then app ...
is the lead singer of. The song has also been heard in an Expedia
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commercial.
The film was released on iTunes
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in November 17, 2009 (ten days before the film's television premiere) and premiered on Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...
on January 17, 2010.
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2009 television films
2009 films
2009 science fiction films
American children's adventure films
American science fiction films
American television films
Canadian science fiction television films
English-language Canadian films
Disney XD original films
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2000s American films
2000s Canadian films