Thunderbirds is a 2004 British-American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Jonathan Frakes written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers and based on the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The film's plot concerns the Hood who traps International Rescue (IR) leader Jeff Tracy and four of his sons on board the damaged Thunderbird 5 to steal the other Thunderbirds vehicles and commit heists that IR will be blamed for prompting Jeff's youngest son Alan and his friends Tin-Tin and Fermat to stop him. Unlike the original TV series which combined puppetry and scale-model visual effects in a filming style dubbed "Supermarionation" the film was made in live-action with CGI effects.