Trivia / The Ant Bully

• All-Star Cast: Quite a stellar cast it has: Zach Tyler Eisen, Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Bruce Campbell, Regina King, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Ricardo Montalbán, Lily Tomlin, Allison Mack, Cheri Oteri, Larry Miller, Rob Paulsen, S. Scott Bullock, and Mark DeCarlo. Having Tom Hanks as a producer certainly helps in that regard.
• Creator Killer: Director John A. Davis had a hit with Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which got an Oscar nomination and was eventually made into a series. Sadly, due to the poor box-office performance of this movie, he hasn't made another movie since. Animation house DNA Productions closed down after The Ant Bully tanked and resulted in the cancellation of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius despite a fourth season being in the planning stage.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: A majority of the cast is based in Los Angeles, with the exception of David Kaye (this is a year before he became a dual citizen for the United States, as he was still doing voicework for Vancouver.
• Deleted Scene: A few are compiled on the DVD. The most notable is one in which Zoc is given a Dark and Troubled Past, revealing that as a child an old colony of his was wiped out by Stan Beals.
• Kids' Meal Toy: It had toys at Burger King such as an Etch-a-Sketch-esque doodler.
• The Other Darrin: All of the celebrity voice actors aside from Bruce Campbell and Zach Tyler Eisen were replaced by soundalikes in the game.
• Production Posse: Actors Rob Paulsen, Mark DeCarlo, Paul Greenburg, and composer John Debney worked with John A. Davis on other projects.
• What Could Have Been: There were plans for a TV series based on the film said to air on Kids' WB!, but due to the film's financial disappointment and the closure of DNA Productions, the idea was scrapped.

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