This is a list of trivia the 2012 film, Rise of the Guardians.
Trivia[]
- This is the second DreamWorks Animation film not to be composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, Steve Mazzaro, Theodore Shapiro, or Daniel Pemberton, as the film was composed by Alexandre Desplat, the first being Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (which was composed by Julian Nott).
- This is Hugh Jackman and Alec Baldwin's second DreamWorks Animation film, after Flushed Away and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
- This is the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Afterwards, 20th Century Fox began distributing films from DreamWorks Animation starting with The Croods up until Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, where Universal Studios will take over distribution starting with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
- This is the 10th computer-animated film by DreamWorks Animation to be produced at their Glendale studio, along with Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots, the 11th if you count Flushed Away.
- Coincidentally, the following DreamWorks Animation film, The Croods, also had a main character named Sandy. Like the Sandman, Sandy Crood is also the only silent character out of the main cast of that film.
- This is the last DreamWorks Animation film to have a home media release to be released by Paramount Home Media Distribution and the last time the DreamWorks Animation SKG Home Entertainment Logo was used not counting Universal Pictures Home Entertainment reprints.
General[]
- Bunnymund warns "You don't want to race a rabbit." This is an in-joke to the Aesop fable of the race between the tortoise and the hare - the tortoise won.
- Bunnymund opens a rabbit hole and jumps down it. This is a reference to Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", where a rabbit hole leads into another dimension.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was originally set to voice Jack Frost, but dropped out of the film during pre-production.
- Christopher Lee, Dwayne Johnson, Natalie Portman, Hugh Laurie, Ian McShane, and voice actor Tom Kenny were all rumored to be involved at various points of production.
- The last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. In which The Croods will be distrubuted by 20th Century Fox.
- Jack's animators and the directors have stated he's 18 in the film. His voice actor, Chris Pine was 32 when he recorded his lines for Jack.
- In the workshop at the opening, North is listening to and humming Igor Stravinsky's 'Firebird' suite.
- In one scene, the Tooth Fairy finds a mouse beneath the pillow and identifies it as "one of us, European division". Ratoncito (Little Mouse) Perez or The Tooth Mouse is a children's book character created by Spanish author Luis Coloma in 1894 and that is said to replace lost baby teeth with gifts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Latin America.
- At the beginning of the movie, Jack Frost walks through a Colonial American village. In the background, the folk song village musicians are playing is called "Kemp's Jig." This was a popular early 18th-century English dance song named in honor of William Kempe. He was a famous 16th century English comic stage actor whose work influenced modern comedic acting, stand up comedy and improvisational comic skits. He may have performed in some of William Shakespeare's earlier works. He is best known for a stunt where he actually made an entire journey dancing the whole route between London and Norwich (about 100 miles or 161 km).
- When Jack Frost is kidnapped to North's HQ, he calls Bunny a kangaroo. Later on, Frost apologizes for that, to what Bunny replies: "It's the accent, isn't it?". This is a reference to Hugh Jackman, who voices Bunny and was born in Australia, known as the land of kangaroos.
- Bunny mentions that Jack Frost caused a blizzard on Easter Sunday of 1968, a reference to an actual event.
- Whenever North (voiced in a Russian accent by Alec Baldwin) is surprised or alarmed, he exclaims loudly with the name of a classical Russian composer - for example "Shostakovich! Just before he falls down the rabbit hole; "Rimsky-Korsakov! That's a lot of eggs!" in Bunnymund's warren.
- A post-film dedication appears: "For Mary Katherine Joyce. A Guardian fierce and true." This refers to William Joyce's 18-year-old daughter who died at age 18 from a brain tumor. The movie was based on Joyce's book series "The Guardians of Childhood" which was inspired by stories he told his daughter.
- Aside from the Guardians and Pitch, none of the adult characters' faces are clearly seen.