Line #2 Trivia/HotelTransylvania


1	!!General:
2	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
3	** With Creator/AdamSandler (formerly) playing as the owner of Hotel Transylvania, {{Dracula}}. As Dracula bears more than a passing resemblance to Sandler himself, this overlaps with InkSuitActor.
4	*** Creator/BrianHull, his [[TheOtherDarrin replacement,]] isn't as famous, but is still a [=YouTuber=] with (as of January 2023) 2.29 million subscribers.
5	** Music/SelenaGomez as Dracula's daughter Mavis
6	** Creator/AndySamberg as Jonathan the human
7	** [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Kevin James]] as [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]]
8	** Creator/FranDrescher as [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]]
9	** Creator/JonLovitz as [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]]
10	** Music/CeeLoGreen as [[{{Mummy}} Murray the Mummy]]
11	** Creator/SteveBuscemi as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wayne the Werewolf]]
12	** [[Film/WetHotAmericanSummer Molly]] [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Shannon]] as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wanda the Werewolf]]
13	** Creator/DavidSpade as [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan Griffin the Invisible Man]]
14	* CreatorBacklash: A minor one. Genndy Tartakovsky hasn't exactly spoken ill of these movies, but admits that he doesn't care much for CGI, due to its homogeneity, and vastly prefers hand-drawn animation.
15	* DuelingMovies: It had to compete with two other animated horror movies of 2012; ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''. More directly ''Frankenweenie'', since it came out a week after this movie.
16	* MissingTrailerScene: Some scenes are altered.
17	** In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!" and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie, the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door.
18	** Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the {{tunnel network}} and have the {{accidental pervert}} moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene has him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
19	** The Bigfoot who causes the clogged toilet problem had white fur with blue hands and feet in all the trailers. He's brown in the final version, probably because so many people said he looked more like the Yeti.
20	** The silhouetted montage of all the monsters of the world beginning their travels to the hotel from their respective hideouts is cut from the final film.
21	** One trailer showed the scene where one of the suits of armor gets [[GroinAttack kicked between the legs]], making it look like Jonathan did it when it was Quasimodo.
22	** The scene with Dracula going down the hall with the shrunken heads has some difference to the voices between the trailer and the movie.
23	** At no point does Dracula try to convince Johnny that this is just a normal hotel, unlike in the trailer.
24	* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/GenndyTartakovsky has made no secret that the only reason he took the job initially was that he needed work after ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' was canceled, although he has also said he's happy with the movie and was excited to do the sequel.
25	* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BrianHull replaces Adam Sandler as Dracula from Monster Pets onwards, making his official movie debut in WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTransformania.
26	* TheOtherMarty:
27	** Music/MileyCyrus was originally cast to voice Mavis, but she left the project to concentrate on her music, and was replaced with Music/SelenaGomez.
28	** The Skeleton couple and Mavis' shrunken head had different voices in the trailers.
29	* ProductionPosse: Though not made by Adam Sandler's production company Creator/HappyMadisonProductions, it ''is'' a production by its distribution partner at the time, Creator/ColumbiaPictures, and many of his regular collaborators are present, including co-stars Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/DavidSpade, and Creator/KevinJames, as well as writer Robert Smigel.
30	* RealLifeRelative: Not only does Creator/AdamSandler voice {{Dracula}} but wife [[Film/BigDaddy Jacqueline]] [[WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights "Jackie Titone"]] [[Film/JustGoWithIt Sandler]] voices Martha, [[TheLostLenore Drac's wife]] and their daughter [[Film/BedtimeStories2008 Sadie]] voices Winnie (the werewolves' only daughter) and also young Mavis.
31	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was first pitched in 2002 and was one of the first ideas pitched to Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation around the time, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought, by which point so much had already been rendered that it was, as he put it, "like coming onto a live-action set." He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. The DVD commentary mostly consists of Genndy explaining all the creative hurdles they had to do when recycling pre-existing set pieces for new scenes since they had no time to create new models. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.
32	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
33	** Jonathan was intended at one point to be the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, which would have created an even bigger conflict between him and Dracula. There's no word as to why this was dropped, but it was eventually put to use in the third film, which was about Dracula falling in love with Van Helsing's great-great-granddaughter.
34	** Mavis was originally a character from a scrapped romantic comedy film.
35	** As seen in early promotional material Griffen (The Invisible Man) was originally going to share clothes but the idea was scrapped to just wearing glasses in the final.
36	** Jonathan was originally named Gerald.
37	** Creator/MileyCyrus was originally cast as Mavis but was [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor fired]] after buying Liam Hemsworth a lewd birthday cake and posting it online.
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39	!!Specific
40	* Creator/GenndyTartakovsky is one of two veterans of Creator/CartoonCartoons to make his feature debut in 2012, the other being former ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' writer Creator/SethMacFarlane with ''Film/{{Ted}}''.[[note]][=MacFarlane=] had also written a couple of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.[[/note]]

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