Rise of the Guardians - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Rise of the Guardians or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Rise of the Guardians

[frances]

Bunny mentions that the meaning of Easter is springtime. Ironically, in Hugh Jackman's native Australia, Easter typically occurs mid-Autumn.

[tom]

When the sandman is resurrected and starts to turn the nightmares into dreams and we see the leg of a brachiosaurus the background music changes slightly to for a few notes of the Jurassic Park theme

[stephanie]

Although the film made over $300 million worldwide, it actually lost DreamWorks about $80 million because of its high budget. Its failure was instrumental in the company having to lay off over 300 members of staff.

[fred]

When Sandy is signaling everyone to look at the Man in the Moon, a crescent moon appears above his head. This is otherwise known as the DreamWorks Animation logo.

[jim]

Isla Fisher's 3rd Animated film, after Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and Rango (2011).

[russell]

Aside from the Guardians and Pitch, none of the adult characters' faces are clearly seen.

[cameron]

Jeff Bridges was considered for the role of North.

[oscar]

DreamWorks Animation's second film to not be composed by John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, Christophe Beck, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, or Theodore Shapiro after The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) (composed by Julian Nott), as this film's composer is Alexandre Desplat.

[veronica]

Alec Baldwin (North) and Chris Pine (Jack Frost) had both played the character Jack Ryan in two different films, Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Pine in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014).

[christina]

Plot hole: whether or not the kids believe in Pitch, they can still see him, but they aren't afraid of him (necessarily). After the fight, during the snowball fight in the morning, they kids run right through pitch, as if they didn't believe in him, which they should believe, after having fought him. However, Jack can't be seen until he is believed in.

[clayton]

Bunnymund paraphrases Crocodile Dundee from Crocodile Dundee (1986), as he compares his bag of teeth to Jack Frost's. "You call that a bag of choppers, now this is a bag of choppers," is paraphrased from the famous "You call that a knife..." line.

[ethel]

Leonardo DiCaprio was originally set to voice Jack Frost, but dropped out of the film during pre-production.

[jesus]

This marks the first time of DreamWorks Animations where at least two or more follow-up films are released in between two original films with this case being Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Puss in Boots (2011), and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) between Megamind (2010) and Rise of the Guardians (2012).

[alyssa]

Leading cinematographer Roger Deakins advised on lighting and the look and feel of the film.

[violet]

Director Peter Ramsey is the first African-American to helm a big budget CGI animated film.

[ivan]

DreamWorks Animation's first film to release on a Thanksgiving week.

[eli]

First Dreamworks Animation film to release on Thanksgiving. The 2nd would later be Penguins of Madagascar (2014) in 2014.

[ivan]

Hugh Jackman & Dakota Goyo featured in Real Steel (2011).

[tom]

Pitch's realm's entrance being under a bed is symbolic of the first bed he ever hid under.