History Trivia / LooneyTunesBackInAction

* DuelingWorks: With ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers''. Both films feature the most iconic characters of their respective studios. Despite ''Back in Action'''s underperformance at the box office. ''The Three Musketeers'' was the winner.

** Creator/JeffBenett replaces Creator/GregBurson and Creator/MauriceLaMarche as Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam. This was due to Burson facing legal troubles at the time that led to his arrest in 2004 (a year after this movie was released) and [=LaMarche=]'s voice was weak from a previous project, and couldn't properly duplicate Sam's harsh vocals.

** The game was supposed to be released on the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} but it was cancelled after the film's failure.

** Creator/BobBergen performed several of Tweety's lines, but the final film features animator Eric Goldberg in the role, though he still kept his role as Porky.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $80 million. Box office, $68,514,844. The movie's financial failure led WB to think that the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes don't have the lasting appeal that they hoped, cancelling the planned ''Looney Tunes'' shorts in production and effectively giving the [[CatchPhrase "That's All, Folks!"]] to Warner Bros. Feature Animation (until 2014's ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'') along with the theatrical career of director Creator/JoeDante (who was already on bad terms with Warner Brothers and Universal), and the cinematic career of star Creator/BrendanFraser, who didn't do another studio film for five years. This movie, along with failures from [[WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange Disney]] and [[WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas DreamWorks,]] helped bring down traditional 2D animated films until Disney released ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/RonPerlman, known for playing tough characters, plays a wimpy executive.

* SparedByTheCut: The original ending had [[spoiler:The Acme Chairman get SwallowedWhole by Tweety who had been turned into a pterodactyl. The final ending has the Chairman turned into a monkey.]]

* SparedByTheCut: The original ending had [[spoiler:The Acme Chairman get SwallowedWhole by Tweety who had been turned into a pterodactyl.]]

** Billy West was originally cast as Bugs, but halfway through, was replaced by Joe Alaskey. He was kept as Elmer Fudd, however.

* KidsMealToy: Wendy's had a set of five toys in their Kids' Meals. There was a slide puzzle with a figure of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck in a wind-up car, a Tweety bobblehead, a Taz spinning top, and a passport with stickers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/LooneyTunesBackInAction Down the Rabbit Hole to it's own page]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/LooneyTunesBackInAction Has its own page]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: '[[WhatCouldHaveBeen/LooneyTunesBackInAction Has its own page]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The film (in its ''Spy Jam'' stage of early development) was originally more of a ''Film/JamesBond''[=/=]''Film/AustinPowers'' parody but the idea was scrapped and became more of a modern ''Film/MissionImpossible'' parody instead.
** Instead of Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/JackieChan would have been the star.
** The script went through at least five revisions, so a ton of content got changed or axed altogether.
** Wrestling/TripleH was originally going to play [[TheDragon Mr. Smith]]. They actually based part of his feud with Goldberg around this.
** The characters designs were originally going to use the early 40's Looney Tunes designs, but they opted to use the modern "on model" designs instead.
** Creator/JoeDante originally wanted more non-Looney Tunes characters to cameo in the film such as [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Tom and Jerry]] and WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} beyond [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby and Shaggy]] to give the film more of a ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' feel, but Warner Bros. rejected this idea.
** Area 52 was originally just called Area 51 and at one point the whole sequence was planned to be cut from the film.
** WesternAnimation/PepeLePew was originally going to have more lines in the film, but his role was reduced to a very brief cameo instead.
** According to the deleted scenes, the movie was originally to have a completely different opening and ending plot progression, the opening being a Batman parody while the plot itself would have stayed in the jungle and involved Tweety (who was apparently supposed to stick around with the heroes) to a greater extent.
*** Most of this would be realized in the video game tie-in. While the game still has the "around the world" subplot, the game does open with a Batman parody, and the final boss battle has Tweety being transformed into a pterodactyl to fight a reanimated monkey statue.
** [[http://larrydoyle.com/pages/Larry_Doyle,_Writer_American/Film_Scrivener_files/BIA.post.pdf On page 105 of this screenplay draft]], one will see that Elmer was supposed to chase Bugs and Daffy into Escher's famous staircase painting, but the gag was cut out. A very similar idea would turn up years later in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumSecretOfTheTomb''.
** The above script also featured a deleted moment from the restaurant scene in which Kate tried to show Bugs a more modern look for himself, but he was distracted giving autographs to [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup]], who thank him and leave, breaking a glass in the process.
** The game was supposed to be released on the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} but it was cancelled after the film's failure.
** In the scene where Daffy collapses the Warner Bros. Tower, [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} the Warner Siblings were originally going to fall out of the tower]], and it's not known why they were cut out. Although, if the posts above were any indication, they were far from the only ones. This idea was later used in the video game ''Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt'' almost a year later.
** Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/ShannonElizabeth, Creator/SallyField, Creator/ReneRusso and Creator/ReneeZellweger were considered for Kate Houghton.
** Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/BryanCranston, Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/KevinSpacey were considered for Damien Drake.
** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/WilliamFichtner, Creator/JamesGandolfini, Creator/DavidKoechner, [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]], Creator/SethMacFarlane, Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/RobinWilliams were considered for Mr. Chairman.
** Based on the success of this film, there would have been a proper ''Film/SpaceJam'' sequel/spin-off called ''Skate Jam'' with Tony Hawk in the lead next to Bugs Bunny, but the idea didn't happen, and ''Space Jam'' wouldn't have a proper sequel until 2021's ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''.
** There were plans to make more ''Looney Tunes'' short films. After the financial failure of ''Back in Action'', said films were scrapped, with only six being released on [=DVD=]s and Creator/HBOMax.

** Also in the video game, Creator/JimCummings voices Taz instead of Brendan Fraser.

** Creator/JimCummings was supposed to have voiced Taz like normal, but was ultimately replaced by Brendan Fraser. He does voice Taz in the tie-in video game.

** In the [[https://twitter.com/ZaccaryVega/status/1378554580904992771 early animation tests]] for the film done by Eric Goldberg himself, Bugs and Daffy were both voiced by Greg Burson.

* FranchiseKiller:

* TalkingToHimself:
** Creator/BrendanFraser plays three different characters; [[AsHimself himself]], his stunt double, and the Tasmanian Devil. He even gets to punch himself out.
** Bugs and Daffy are both voiced by Creator/JoeAlaskey.

** In the [https://twitter.com/ZaccaryVega/status/1378554580904992771 early animation tests] for the film done by Eric Goldberg himself, Bugs and Daffy were both voiced by Greg Burson.

* OldShame: Joe Dante refuses to talk about this movie in great detail. All he said is that [[DoingItForTheArt he only agreed to direct the film to pay tribute to]] Creator/ChuckJones, who had recently passed away and was a close friend of Dante's and that Warner Brothers gave him no freedom in the creative process.

** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/WilliamFichtner, Creator/JamesGandolfini, Creator/DavidKoechner, Creator/SethMacFarlane, Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/RobinWilliams were considered for Mr. Chairman.