1 | * AllStarCast: The cast is surprisingly star-studded, featuring Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/RyanReynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and Creator/ClorisLeachman. |
2 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: The whole cast is voiced by big-name celebrities, with notable examples being Emma Stone as Eep, Ryan Reynolds as Guy, and Nicholas Cage as Grug. |
3 | * ChannelHop: This was Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's first film to be distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. |
4 | * DevelopmentHell: After Aardman and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation parted ways, the story was kicked around DWA for a number of years and seemingly went nowhere until Creator/ChrisSanders came on board, but he only agreed to helm it after directing ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'' first. |
5 | ** Similarly, the sequel went through a TroubledProduction before being briefly canned for almost a year. When Universal revived the project, its release date was delayed yet again to November 2020. |
6 | * ThrowItIn: Chunky's colorful pelt started out as a joke in the art department. Artist Leighton Hickman was bored with the drab colors being used for the creatures appearing in the desert scenes, and painted the saber-tooth tiger character in bright "parrot" colors. The filmmakers liked the look for Chunky so much that they kept it for the film. |
7 | * UnCancelled: The sequel's production was canceled in 2016, but was later revived in 2017. |
8 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
9 | ** The film was originally going to be the fourth collaboration between Creator/AardmanAnimations and [=DreamWorks=], tentatively titled ''Crood Awakening'', with Creator/JohnCleese writing the screenplay (he gets a story credit in the final film) about the discovery of fire. However, Aardman cut ties towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'''s production after getting fed up with [=DreamWorks=]' ExecutiveMeddling. They've since taken a second crack at a caveman movie with ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan''. |
10 | ** A concept art sketch shows Belt was going to be much bigger than he ended up being in the final movie, resembling an ape-like creature that towered over the rest of the cast. |
11 | ** There were a multitude of MixAndMatchCritters cut from the movie, including those that had rendered models. There exists a rendered model for a literal catfish (a feline/aquatic hybrid), and in the bonus features of the film's Blu-Ray version, there is a "Land Shark" in the Creature Guide that shows up nowhere in the actual movie. |
12 | ** A sequel was planned, but amid multiple release date pushbacks and an apparent TroubledProduction, DWA and Universal canceled it... [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell until 2017]]. |
13 | *** According to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/internet-television/dawn-croods-brendan-hay-discusses-building-kinder-gentler-animated-apocalypse-125791.html this interview]] with ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' executive producer Brendan Hay, the sequel would have focused more on Ugga. |
14 | *** [[http://www.enstarz.com/pre-photo/143756/20160220/the-croods-2-cast-nicholas-cage-ryan-reynolds-leslie-mann-more.htm This article]] says that the sequel would have been "the first chapter of society," as the first movie was basically "the last chapter of the caveman." |
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