History Trivia / SausageParty

** The AllStarCast consists of exactly who you'd expect in a film by the creators of ''Film/{{Superbad}}'', ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'', and ''{{Film/Neighbors|2014}}''. Due to the prevalence of the CelebrityVoiceActor trope, most of the cast are, ironically, veterans of exactly the sort of family-friendly fare that the film lampoons.

** Conrad Vernon [[http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/sacha-baron-cohen-appalled-by-seth-rogens-rrated-cartoon-sausage-party-20160316-gnkrou.html agreed]] to work on the film almost immediately after Rogen described the project to him, as making an R-rated animated film was something he wanted to do since he was a ''teen''. He also cited 1981's ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' as influential in his decision to work on the film.

* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The casting is based on the United States, but also used Vancouver-based voice actors providing all of the additional voices for the film (with the exceptions of Conrad Vernon and[[note]]though Toronto-born[[/note]] Creator/StephanieBeard due to also being L.A. based).

** This is also Conrad Vernon's first animated film oriented for adults, after doing work in Creator/DreamWorksAnimation films.

* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The casting is based on the United States, but also used Vancouver-based voice actors providing all of the additional voices for the film (with the exceptions of Conrad Vernon and [[note]]though Toronto-born[[/note]] Creator/StephanieBeard due to also being L.A. based).

* TroubledProduction: You can't make a movie like this without [[JustForPun breaking a few eggs]].

* AllStarCast: The film's cast comprises of top-of-the-line actors and comedians like Creator/SethRogen, Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JonahHill, Creator/MichaelCera and Creator/JamesFranco. Also making appearances are Creator/EdwardNorton, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/PaulRudd, Creator/NickKroll, Creator/BillHader, Creator/CraigRobinson and Creator/DannyMcBride.

** Music/AlanMenken was only recruited to write "The Great Beyond," but loved what he saw of the work in progress so much that he begged to stay on to compose the score.

* WordOfGod: Movie writer Evan Goldberg and executive producer James Weaver [[http://collider.com/sausage-party-story-details-evan-goldberg/ state]] that the movie deliberately tears apart Creator/{{Pixar}} movies, in large part because nobody else dares to do so. Although it is also believed that the film makes fun of every successful animated film in the past 20 years of when the film came out.

** Creator/BillHader voices Guacamole, Firewater, and Tequila.

** Hell, even [[Creator/SethRogen Seth Rogen]] himself had a bit of fun with this, voicing both the main character Frank and another named Sergeant Pepper.

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost around '''three to six times''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-streaming movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget." This was, unfortunately, the main justification (or at least explanation, from co-director Greg Tiernan's perspective) why so many of the artists were not compensated for their overtime: the budget had already gone to everything else and, as far as he was concerned, there was no way to get more money, so the only solution was force the artists to give him free labor.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: David Krumholtz (like [[Creator/SethRogen many]] [[Creator/JonahHill of]] [[Creator/JamesFranco the]] [[Creator/PaulRudd other]] actors in the film) is Jewish. The character he voices is a Muslim stereotype who has a rivalry with a Jewish stereotype.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Lavash's [[spoiler: pubic hair was originally visible at the end of the food orgy scene, but this gave the film an NC-17 rating. In order to be reassigned with an R rating, his scrotum was digitally shaved.]]
** Originally Frank was going to be named Oscar (like Oscar Myer), but it was changed when the filmmakers decided they wanted to only have BlandNameProduct foods.
** Mr. Grits was originally named {{Literature/Uncle Tom|sCabin}}[='=]s Rice and [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/b4f35ede232b7e1deababb1389d4d14f/tumblr_oc165wxxl11vd35fdo3_1280.jpg his design resembled an old man with white hair]]. His name was also changed so as not to resemble a real food brand (in this case, Uncle Ben's rice), as well as consensus that the joke was a little ''too'' racy.
** Nick Kroll originally played [[BigBad Douche]] as an EvilBrit, but Seth Rogan felt it sounded too much like [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] and, since the film is more a parody of Pixar and [=DreamWorks=] films than of Disney films, it wouldn't be appropriate. He also didn't think it sounded "douchy" enough.
** [[BigBad Douche]] was, in one scene, doing “[[BestialityIsDepraved unsavory physical things with a group of rabbits]].” Unsurprisingly, that got cut.
** A lot of things were shuffled around, altered, or removed altogether between the original script and the finished movie, as explained [[https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4xcfck/heres_a_list_of_things_in_sausage_partys_script/ here]]. To highlight some of the more important changes:
*** Instead of opening with Frank and the other sausages preparing to sing the film's theme song, the story begins with a corn cob and a mushroom arguing over who will be chosen by the Gods. Furthermore, the lyrics for "The Great Beyond" in the original script are very different than the ones in the finished version.
*** Barry was apparently supposed to be the main character of the story instead of Frank[[note]]In fact, some of the earlier reports about the movie said that this was the case when it was announced that Creator/MichaelCera would voice a character in it[[/note]], and in the original script, there was a mural with a picture of Barry on it, and it's said he's supposed to be TheChosenOne.
*** The food massacre happens much earlier in the original script.
*** The song "The End" by Music/TheDoors was supposed to play during the scene where [[spoiler: Honey Mustard commits suicide]].
*** There was a scene where [[BigBad Douche]] is fighting off a group of rats when he encounters a piece of cheese stuck in a mouse trap. [[spoiler:Taking advantage of this, [[KickTheDog he sacrifices the cheese to the rats]], and becomes their leader in the process.]]
*** The [[spoiler:[[SexMontage orgy scene]]]] happens ''before'' the climax in the original script, [[spoiler:and it was supposedly [[UpToEleven much longer and more graphic than in the finished movie]]. Also, it was mostly restricted to the main gang instead of the entire store.]]
*** [[spoiler:Instead of ending with the foods going through the portal that Gum built into the real world to [[RageAgainstTheAuthor take on their real creators]], the original script concludes with the foods leaving the store after the climactic battle as they set out into the outside world, ending the story with a FadeToWhite.]]
*** Darren wasn't [[spoiler: going to be controlled by Douche during the film's climax]]. This was probably [[ThrowItIn added in]] [[ActorAllusion to coincide]] with [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar an earlier summer film]] that [[Creator/PaulRudd Darren's VA]] was in.
*** Originally, Vash [[spoiler: was intended to die near the end of the film in a HeroicSacrifice, due to the fact that he had reached his expiration date]]. However, this was changed so that he instead becomes [[spoiler: the boyfriend of Sammy Bagel, Jr.]] This was most likely due to the fact that expiration isn't shown to be fatal in itself to foods and they only die when Darren throws them out.
** Music/SeanCombs was offered a role in the movie as a bottle of [[ProductPlacement Cour]][[ActorAllusion voisier]], he turned down the role because [[AnimationAgeGhetto the movie was animated, not live-action]].
** At one point, there was going to be a character named [[http://damonbard.tumblr.com/post/148992443347/kummy-sausage-party-i-was-on-this-project-as-an/ Kummy]], a homosexual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat kumquat]] who likes to throw {{double entendre}}s, mostly involving twigs and berries. It's possible that he was removed to reduce the amount of gay characters in the movie or he was replaced by Teresa del Taco.

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost around '''three to six times''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-streaming movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget." This was, unfortunately, the main justification (or at least explanation, from co-director Greg Tierman's perspective) why so many of the artists were not compensated for their overtime: the budget had already gone to everything else and, as far as he was concerned, there was no way to get more money, so the only solution was force the artists to give him free labor.

** Things only got worse when physical production began. In order to get quality animation on the film's modest budget, co-director Greg Tierman used what could only be called scare tactics by threatening the artists at Nitrogen Studios with either termination or blacklisting if they refused to work 7-day weeks with no overtime. Because the studio is based out of Vancouver, which has no animation union, there were also no higher authorities who could do anything about this even if they knew about it, and Tierman made good on this threat many times during production, resulting in only ''half'' of the artists who worked on the film receiving credit (they would successfully sue the studio for overtime pay three years later, however).

** Co-director Greg Tiernan previously directed ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' from 2009 to 2012.

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost almost '''five times''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-streaming movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget." This was, unfortunately, the main justification (or at least explanation, from co-director Greg Tierman's perspective) why so many of the artists were not compensated for their overtime: the budget had already gone to everything else and, as far as he was concerned, there was no way to get more money, so the only solution was force the artists to give him free labor.

** Creator/SethRogen spent ''eight years'' finding a studio interested in the project. Those that were sent the script rejected it due to the religious subject matter and obscene content. Even Sony, the eventual distributor of the film, rejected it at first sight until Rogen did several more rewrites (mind you, Seth had no problem getting the green light from Sony to make ''Film/TheInterview'', a live-action movie about ''assassinating a real, very-much alive at the time dictator'', which should [[AnimationAgeGhetto tell you everything you need to know]]). And even ''after'' it was approved, the script was leaked during the 2014 Sony hack, forcing Rogan to rewrite it yet again.

* ShrugOfGod: Rogen stated in [[https://youtu.be/oezSI76hptg this interview]] that he doesn't know how the rules of the food coming to life works and just states that it probably happens the moment they get put on store shelves.

* DuelingDubs: There are two Brazilian Portuguese dubs: one made in Rio de Janeiro for theatrical release, and a second made in Sao Paulo at the Dublavideo studio. Not much is known about Dublavideo's version, except for Vagner Fagundes as Barry.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Brazilian dub not only features a script adapted by comedy troupe [[{{Creator/Backdoor}} Porta dos Fundos]],but also features its members in many roles:

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost almost '''triple''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-video movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget." This was, unfortunately, the main reason (or at least justification from co-director Greg Tierman's perspective) why so many of the artists were not compensated for their overtime: the budget had already gone to everything else and, as far as he was concerned, there was no way to get more money, so the only solution was force the artists to give him free labor.

** Things only got worse when physical production began. In order to get quality animation on the film's modest budget, co-director Greg Tierman used what could only be called scare tactics by forcing the artists at Nitrogen Studios to work 7-day weeks with no overtime, threatening them with either termination or blacklisting should they refuse. As Vancouver, where the studio is located, has no animation union, there were also no higher authorities who could do anything about this even if they knew about it, and Tierman made good on this threat many times during production, resulting in only ''half'' of the animators who worked on the film receiving credit (the animators would successfully sue the studio for overtime pay three years later, however).

** Originally Frank was going to be named Oscar but this was obviously removed to avoid connections to Oscar Myers brand Hotdogs.
** According to Joey Tedesco of the Cartoon Palooza, Mr Grits was originally named {{Literature/Uncle Tom|sCabin}}[='=]s Rice and [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/b4f35ede232b7e1deababb1389d4d14f/tumblr_oc165wxxl11vd35fdo3_1280.jpg his design of an old man with white hair]]. It was changed to avoid UnfortunateImplications. . . which is saying something considering what ''did'' get put in the movie.
*** Well, four, if you add the resulting resemblance to Uncle Ben's Rice. There's a reason for having so many BlandNameProduct designs in this picture, after all.

** Creator/SethRogen spent ''eight years'' finding a studio interested in the project. Those that were sent the script rejected it due to the religious subject matter and obscene content. Even Sony, the eventual distributor of the film, rejected it at first sight until Rogen did several more rewrites (mind you, Seth had no problem getting the green light from Sony to make ''Film/TheInterview'', a movie about ''murdering a very-much-alive real-life dictator'', which should [[AnimationAgeGhetto tell you everything you need to know]]). And even ''after'' it was approved, the script was leaked during the 2014 Sony hack, forcing Rogan to rewrite it yet again.

** Creator/SethRogen spent ''eight years'' finding a studio interested in the project. Those that were sent the script rejected it due to the religious subject matter and obscene content. Even Sony, the eventual distributor of the film, rejected it at first sight until Rogen did several more rewrites (mind you, Seth had no problem getting ''Film/TheInterview'', a movie about ''murdering a very-much-alive real-life dictator'', to Sony, which should [[AnimationAgeGhetto tell you everything you need to know]]. And even ''after'' it was approved, the script was leaked during the 2014 Sony hack, forcing Rogan to rewrite it yet again.

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost almost '''triple''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-video movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget." This was, unfortunately, the main reason (or at least justification from co-director Greg Tierman's perspective) why so many of the artists were not compensated for their overtime: the budget had already gone to everything else, and anybody who could have done anything about it was completely in the dark about it.

* TroubledProduction: The film was no slouch to make:
** First off, Creator/SethRogen spent ''eight years'' finding a studio interested in the project. Those that were sent the script rejected it due to the religious subject matter and obscene content. Even Sony, the eventual distributor of the film, rejected it at first sight until Rogen re-sent the script to them a couple of years later. Mind you, Seth had no problem pitching ''Film/TheInterview'' to Sony despite its heavy themes, so that should speak volumes.
** Once things started rolling, the problems only continued. Director Greg Tiernan was proven to be cruel towards the animators at Nitrogen Studios. He forced them to work overtime seven days a week without extra pay thanks to the film's low budget. Any animators who stood up against Tiernan's tyranny would be fired and blackballed from the company along with going uncredited in the movie. Speaking of which, only ''half'' of the animators who worked on the film were credited. Sadly, Greg got away with his vile actions because there is no animation union in Vancouver, where Nitrogen is located. This means that the man could do as he pleased with his employees. Even worse, those poor people had nowhere to turn to stop the abuse. Some good news did come to the animators eventually: the sued over the overtime pay and won three years after production ended.
** There were several changes made to the script during production at short notice and with little communication to the folks at Nitrogen, who had little to no idea what to do next.

* NoBudget: The film has a reported budget of [[http://www.econotimes.com/Sausage-Party-actor-producer-Seth-Rogen-Reveals-Small-$30-million-Budget-Critics-Predict-Possible-Box-Office-Flop-213451 $30 million]] (other estimates [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-petes-dragon-sausage-party-florence-foster-jenkins-thursday-1201836357/ go as low as $19 million.]]) Keeping in mind that this film has ''A-list voice talent'', and the fact that any film from Disney, Pixar, and [=DreamWorks=] Animation tends to cost almost '''triple''' that amount, you'd expect this to be a direct-to-video movie rather than a theatrically released film. For comparison, ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', released a year later, was budgeted at $37 million and was considered "low budget."

* TroubledProduction: You can't make the first CGI feature for adults without [[JustForPun breaking a few eggs]]. Lots of rewrites happened and co-director Greg Tiernan [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/08/17/for-audiences-sausage-party-was-a-laugh-riot-for-some-animators-it-was-a-nightmare/#comments frequently abused the animation staff]], forcing them to work overtime 7 days a week without extra pay, due to the film's small budget, and threatening to blacklist them and remove their names from the credits if they stood up to him (only ''half'' of the artists whose work is in the final film show up at the end, though the happy ending is that all of the artists later won their lawsuit against the studio for overtime pay).