The Owl House: Danger Zone in Austria

The Owl House: Danger Zone in Austria is a 2024 adventure film directed by Connie Walther which aired in May 16th, 2024 on Disney Channel. The plot is mostly based on the 1987 James Bond movie “The Living Daylights” starring Timothy Dalton and directed by John Glen. The main theme song is “The Living Daylights” (originally sung by A-ha), performed by the main cast of the show. The ending song is “This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave” by Pet Shop Boys, which is also a rejected theme for “The Living Daylights”

Leaving Connecticut and exploring Vienna
One year after the death of Philip Wittebane AKA Belos, Luz and Camila Noceda booked a trip to Vienna, in Austria for 2 weeks. Amity, Gus, Willow, Hunter and Vee are intrested in the trip. They are leaving their house and going to Bradley International Airport where they’re going to the plane for Vienna. Once they arrived, they’re starting to explore the city, such as the St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Hofburg, the Belvedere castle, the Mozarthaus Vienna and the Prater public park.

Meeting Frank Moser and discovering Smert Spionom
When Vee was exploring the park, she encouters Jacob Hopkins, a long time enemy, and runs away until a car knocks off her. The driver turns out to be Frank Moser, an agent from the Kriminalpolizei, who manage to protect her. The family meets up with Frank and he’s telling that Jacob is somewhat affliate with a criminal organization. So the family are head to the police station which they met Frank’s team, his boss Joseph Kovalski and his partner Natalya Milovy, an Austrian girl of Ukrainian origin. They learned that Jacob is in a international organization called Komanda smerti (The Death Crew), led by the general Leonid Koskov, Philip Wittebane, Jacob Hopkins and Odalia Blight. At first Luz doesn't believe that Belos is still alive after she killed him off one year earlier, but Hunter asked that probably his evil spirit might have ressurected without his beast powers. The organization created a new assassination program “Smert Spionom” for a list of European, Asian, Oceanic and American agents. Frank’s goal is head into the headquarters and activate a self destruct sequence, according to a schemic plan thanks to a LKA agent. In order to do this they need to go to Jacob’s estate to do a research of the original plans and the terrorists attacks, then they need disguise as military agents to get into the Zeltweg Military Air Base to catch a plane directed to the headquarters in Unterzeiring. Luz’s friends want to explore the city of Vienna further, so Frank and Natalya are giving a rest, having Luz and her friends’ opportunity to visits his house.

Exploring Vienna further and the death of a friend
The next day Luz, Frank and their friends are going to an opera show, meanwhile Koskov, Odalia and Jacob, following the “Smert Spionom” program, kill an LKA agent and take top secret evidence that the agent himself stole. After the opera, Luz and her friends go to the Prater amusement park where they have fun until eventually they met Leo Saunders, an agent from the Bundezpolizei and Frank’s old friend, at a cafe bar. He reports that there were new terrorist attacks in Germany and Greece, numerous drug dealings in the Philippines and Morocco from Wittebane’s mafia. As he leaves their meeting, Saunders is killed by Jacob and Odalia, who detonates a bomb slamming the sliding door of the café onto Saunders, and leaving the message “Smert Spionom”. Frank is so pissed off that he decide to start the mission right now.

Failed sabotage and escort to air base
The team are heading to Jacob’s estate in Vienna to do the research but they get easily caught by Jacob and his guards. They are escorted to Vienna Airport where they board in a military plane. They learn that Natalya was Koskov’s ex fiancee and she broke up with him due to his terrible side as a general. Koskov also tells that he was on a mission with Belos to disinform the NATO and The Pentagon, avoiding being arrested. The captive team fly to the Zeltweg military air base where Odalia, Jacob and Koskov bring into the military prison. Luckly they escape, and in doing so, free a condemned prisoner, Alexei Pushkin, an ex-KGB agent and leader of the Russian Rebellion, a group of soldiers who turned up against Phillip’s team, with some international guests, smiliar to the afghan mujahideen. Following Alexei and Frank’s instructions, the group is escaping to the air base silently and sneakily. After the escape Luz, Frank and their friends are beset by some men of the Russian Rebellion, but are saved by the intervention of Alexei; who convinces them they are not Belos’ soldiers. They join in the rebellion and they’re off to their safehouse outside of the air base.

The work of the Russian Rebellion
After entering the safehouse, Pushkin gets introduction from himself and introduces some members. Hunter wants to get back to the air base by having a weapon due to his promise back in the prison, but Alexei refuses to let him out because Alexei doesn’t want to spare men or weapons. So Alexei ask their help for something. He asks one of his members, the CIA agent Paul Whitaker, to bring a thing that he kept a long time ago. Frank ask to Michael Leiter, an ex-fighter pilot, what’s the thing is about. Michael explains that Whitaker has found a paticular suitcase from a lady that he doesn’t know what’s inside, and what he found was really strange. Whitaker re-enters in the main area with the mysterious suitcase that he doesn’t know the purpose of it and he didn’t open it for a long time. Then Luz and her friends are happily surprised that the suitcase turns out to be one of the oldest surviving portal door in which Luz calls the Boiling Isles population for help, mostly from Hexside and the Coven heads. Eda and Raine are shocked for Belos’ resurrection, but they will got revenge for this. During the Boiling Isles’ people presentation, Edric and Emira Blight notice that the Russians has got some Opium for no reason, and Frank discovers that Koskov want to use Russian funds to buy a massive shipment of oppium from the rebellion, intending to keep the profits with enough left over to supply the Russians with their arms and Philip will provide Western arms, while Odalia new projects for the Blight Industries. They rest the whole night to get prepared for the day after. Outside of the safehouse, Frank tells to Luz and her friends a sad story: in 1994 he was on a mission in Bratislava, with his 15 friends from the LKA, to stop a terrorist attack, but one of them, a serbian killer named Darko Kravic, betrayed the group, revealing that it was a setup for money. Frank escaped to the trap alongside with Darko and a mysterious man, and now Darko is working with Belos.

The air base war and traveling to the headquarters
The next day the team is preparing the new plan. The goal is to use a bomb by Luz and Frank, disguising as mafia members thanks to Gus, to destroy the plane carrying the opium and head into the headquarters with their motorbikes. Camila, Natalya and Eda are worried about Luz and Frank’s fates, so, alongside with the Bonesbrough people, they’re off to rescue their friends, and Alexei has got no choice but join with them. With the Rebellion and the Boiling Isles people’s help, Luz and Frank are planting the bomb aboard the cargo plane, but someone pushes Gus, breaking up the illusion of mafia members, revealing their true identity. Luz is spotted and has no choice but to barricade herself with Frank in the plane. Meanwhile, the rebellion and the other people attack the air base on motorbikes and engage the soldiers in a gun and magic battle. During the battle, Natalya and Camila are driving a jeep, with their friends, into the cargo hold of the plane as Luz and Frank taking off, and Odalia and Koskov are also leaping aboard at the last second from a jeep driven by a soldier. After a struggle, Amity, Gus and Willow captures Odalia while Frank sends Koskov to his death and deactivates the bomb. Luz and Frank then notices Alexei, Eda and Raine and their group being pursued by Wittebane’s forces. Luz re-activates the bomb and drops it out of the plane and onto a bridge, blowing it up and helping Alexei, Eda and Raine and their group escape the soldiers. After this, they also notice Jacob in a bridge for security, noticed first by Gus with his powers, and then Frank got an idea. They descend to ram onto the bridge. Jacob got a rocket launcher, but Gus, using his powers, manage to deviate the missile. The plane skims the bridge, destroying almost everything, and regains air. Now Frank has time to alert the police and the military with his radio. They’ve reached the base in Unterzeiring but the plane is losing fuel real fast. The plane subsequently crashes, destroying the drugs, while the team and Odalia escape with the jeep. They will not bringing Odalia to the base, leaving her while they’re going with the jeep.

Infiltrating the headquarters
The building has two entrance, Luz, Frank, Hunter and Gus are going to the left side, while Natalya, Amity, Willow, Vee and Camila are going to the right side. Luz, Frank and the boys are facing off Darko, revealing that he was a spy during Frank’s years at the special forces and explains that he developed a drug addiction and betrayed the squad for €900. They manage to kill him off in which Frank got his revenge for his best friends. Meanwhile, the girls are facing off the mysterious man from the Bratislava attack, a serbian gay agent named Florian Polanski, who was scared for Frank that he brought many people to his mission and he ask to get out of here to don’t get killed. After exploring the building and killed some soldiers they’re facing off Philip Wittebane. Luz asked how did he survived, and replied that after his death, his evil spirit said that from now on he will not be powerful as before with his beast powers. He woke up in Austria and started his criminal organization to become more powerful as ever. He first met Jacob and he took the job on the promise that his fake death won't tell at anyone. But then he notice that the Russian Rebellion and the Boiling Isles people tracked down the base. Then the fighting starts both outside and inside.

The final battle and escape
Luz is running away to find the self destruct system and she manage to find it. When she was about to press the button, Philip reaches in time and they compete to the death. Meanwhile, outside the building, the police and the military arrive at the battlefield. After Luz is injured, Philip reaches for a gun to take her out, but she takes one of Odalia's weapons and shoots him in the face, covering him in purple goo and causing him to activate self destruct. The building will detonate in 4 minutes. There are rescue helicopters for escape and all the members manage to escape. After an intese fight with Philip, Odalia and some of the elite section members, the team manage to get the last helicopter, while Philip and Odalia are escaping to the building by doing skydiving and run away before the building blows up. Whitaker and Pushkin are finishing off Odalia and Phillip. Odalia got a bulletproof vest, but not for Philip.

The aftermath
At the Ministry of Defence in Vienna, the parents of Amity, Willow, Vee and Gus arrive to talk with Kovalski. Luz and Frank’s superiors get the video feed of Belos’ rescue helicopter webcam. They discover that the team are playing videogames, which makes the parents confused and pissed off, but Kovalski said that they’re coming back to Vienna according to their direction, so there’s no need to worry anything. After coming back to Vienna, Frank makes gifts for the Boiling Isles population: Raine and Skara are the solo musicians in a Vienna performance, Perry Porter got interviewed with his son Gus to the austrian television, some parents got human immigration visas, some people are speaking new languages, such as German, Russian, Slovak, Polish and Hungarian. At night, the main characters are doing a victory party in Frank’s favourite local bar to celebrate the accomplisced mission. During the party, General Vladimir Malakov enters at the local bar to give some awards to Luz and her friends. Luz, Amity, Gus, Willow, Hunter and Vee got the Order of Courage medal for defeating Belos, Odalia, Jacob and Koskov, Frank and Natalya got the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nakhimov? Order of Nakhimov] for their military cunning while Camila, Alador Blight, Perry Porter, Gilbert and Harvey Park and the Basilisks got the Order of Parental Glory medal for training their children well. Luz tells that tommorow they will leave Vienna to come back in the USA, but Frank promise to come visit sometime. During the ending credits, the main cast is performing “This must be the place i waited years to leave” behind the Schönbrunn Palace, but the vocals are from the band “Pet Shop Boys”.

Cast

 * Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
 * Elizabeth Grullon as Camila Noceda


 * René Steinke as Kriminalpolizei agent Frank Moser


 * Milla Jovovich as Natalya Milovy


 * Volkmar Kleinert as Inspector Joseph Kovalski
 * Florian David Fitz as secretary Markus Steinger
 * August Diehl as Bundespolizei agent Leo Saunders


 * Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
 * Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne
 * Susan Flannery as Gwendolyn Clawthorne


 * Alex Hirsch as King, Hooty


 * Tati Gabrielle as Willow Park
 * John Rhys-Davies and Sven Martinek as Gilbert and Harvey Park
 * Lea Thompson as Terra Snapdragon


 * Issac Ryan Brown as Gus Porter
 * Grand L. Bush as Perry Porter
 * Ryan O’Flanagan as Edric Blight
 * Erica Lindbeck as Emira Blight
 * Dolph Lundgren as Adrian Graye Vernworth


 * Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
 * Timothy Dalton as Alador Blight
 * Keston John as Darius Deamonne


 * Zeno Robinson as Hunter, Derwin
 * Kari Wahlgren as Eberwolf, Amber
 * Michaela Dietz as Vee


 * Jason Yribar as ex-KGB agent and Russian Rebellion’s leader Alexei Pushkin
 * Kyle MacLachlan as ex-fighter pilot Michael Leiter
 * Gene Hackman as CIA agent Paul Whitaker
 * Maciej Zakościelny as deputy commander Andrzej
 * Piotr Adamczyk as head of security Vladislav
 * Antoni Pawlicki as Tadeusz, Alexei’s long time friend
 * Rachel Ticotin as NSA agent Karol Bouvier
 * Daniel Muriel as spanish military soldier Pablo Gonzales
 * Vitali Baganov as the leader of the Saint Petersburg alliance


 * Pierce Brosnan as Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos
 * Rachel MacFarlane as Odalia Blight
 * Robert ten Brink as General Leonid Koskov
 * David Duchovny as Jacob Hopkins
 * Tomasz Kot as Darko Kravic
 * Jonas Bane as Florian Polanski
 * Artur Żmijewski as german assassin Tod
 * Matthias Schweigh as Dimitri Ouromov
 * Michał Żebrowski as Colonel Meyador
 * Ramsey Nouah as Jamaican assassin Jimmy Bowen
 * Domhnall Gleeson as British-American bank robber Bobby
 * Carlos Sobera as Columbian drug dealer Antonio Sanchez
 * Eduardo Casanova as Antonio’s henchman Fernando
 * Roger Craig Smith as the jailer


 * Avi Roque as Raine Whispers
 * Kimberly Brooks as Skara, Eileen
 * Grey DeLisle as Katya
 * Matt Chapman as Steve


 * Eden Riegel as Boscha, Mary, Amelia, Bo


 * Jorge Diaz as Matt Tholomule
 * Felicia Day as Bria
 * Wolfgang Stumph as Mason


 * Noah Galvin as Jerbo
 * Kevin Locarro as Braxas


 * Ally Maki as Viney
 * Art Malik as Vitimir
 * Sasson Gabai as Osran
 * Claudia Balko as Hettie Cutburn
 * Nikolai Burlyay as General Vladimir Malakov
 * Peter Kloeppel as the Austrian news reporter

Animators

 * Ricky Cometa – Art director
 * Matthieu Cousin – Character designer
 * Marina Gardner – Character designer
 * Jess Marfisi – Character designer
 * Sarah Craig – Character designer
 * Erik Elizarrez – Character designer
 * Justin K. Noel – Character designer
 * Rhea Dadoo – Storyboard revisionist
 * Luz Batista – Storyboard Revisionist
 * Charlie Bryant – Storyboard artist
 * Stu Livingston – Storyboard artist
 * Beth Pecora – Storyboard artist
 * Kelsey Norden – Storyboard artist
 * Naomi Hicks – Storyboard artist
 * Steven Sugar – Lead background designer
 * Ryan Andrews – Background designer
 * Wendy Park – Background paint
 * Adel Sabi – Background paint
 * Jacob Streilein – Background paint
 * Barbara Lynn Hamane – Color stylist
 * Mariama Alizor – Color stylist
 * Rachelle Reyes – Color design
 * Shawn Responts – Color design
 * Jaison Duell Wilson – Color design
 * Denise Wogatzke – Color design
 * Jane Bak – Location designer
 * Sam Bosma – Location designer
 * Leland Goodman – Location designer
 * Killian Ng – Location designer
 * Kyle Fewell – Location designer
 * Alexandre Diboine – Location designer
 * Melanie Atwater – Prop designer
 * Becky Dreistadt – Prop designer
 * Tara Whitaker – Prop designer
 * Megan Willoughby – Prop designer

Directors

 * Tyler Chen – Creative director
 * Connie Walther - Main director
 * Julia Pleasants – Casting director
 * Aaron Drown – Casting director
 * Ivan Sayon – Technical director
 * Jezreel Mann Carlos II – Technical director
 * Vesela Stamenova – Technical director
 * Herb Moore – Timing director
 * Eden Riegel – Voice director
 * Richard Edlund - Visual Effects director and Main Titles designer

Editors

 * Kevin Locarro – Film editor
 * Lauren Crist – Animatic editor
 * Jenny Jordan – Assistant editor
 * Matt Brailey – Animatic/Assistant editor

Producers

 * Dana Terrace – Creator/Executive producer
 * Hermann Joha – Executive producer
 * Stephen Sandoval – Supervising producer

Sound

 * Maciej Zieliński and Reinhard Scheuregger - Main composers
 * Nicole A. Fletcher – Sound editor/mixer
 * Jim Harrison – Track reader
 * Tanya Orlov – Assistant audio engineer
 * Mark Stephen Kondracki – Supervising dialogue engineer

Writers

 * Charley Feldman – Staff writer
 * Zach Marcus – Staff writer
 * Manuel Jesse Nieto Jr. – Staff writer
 * Jeff Trammell – Staff writer
 * Molly Ostertag – Staff writer
 * Janae Hall – Staff writer
 * Rachel Vine – Story editor

Intern

 * Austin Faber

Misc

 * Kameron J. Moore – Digital coordinator
 * Brandon Swofford – Digital coordinator
 * Dreanna Castellanos – Production associate
 * Eden Rousso – Production associate
 * Rebecca Bozza – Production associate
 * Matthew Haddon – Production coordinator
 * Rian Borland – Production coordinator
 * Scott Morrison – Production coordinator
 * Wade Wisinski – Production manager
 * Anne Chunapongse – Post-production manager
 * Ron Earhart – Production control
 * Kenzie Holmquist – Production secretary
 * Leona Beckert – Script coordinator

Oversea animation studios

 * Rough Draft Korea
 * Sugarcube
 * Sunmin Image Pictures
 * Action Concept

Casting Coordinator

 * Colleen O'Donnell