The Tale of Despereaux
Small Mouse. Big Dreams.
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Timing:
1:33 (93 min)
6.1/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Adventure, Animation, Family
Budget
$60 000 000
Revenue
$87 000 000
Director
Robert Stevenhagen, Sam Fell
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Gary Ross, Allison Thomas, David Lipman, Robin Bissell, Ryan Kavanaugh, William Sargent
Operator
Brad Blackbourn
Composer
William Ross
Artist
Audition
Editing
Mark Solomon
All team (61)
All team (61)
Short description
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
What's left behind the scenes
- Justin Long was originally intended to voice Despereaux, but the role was later given to Matthew Broderick.
- In the scene where André and Boldo, voiced by Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci, throw everything they can find at each other, Kline and Tucci also threw things at each other while delivering their lines and improvising, varying their degree of annoyance and anger with each other as directed by screenwriter and producer Gary Ross.
- Initially, Sylvain Chomet was slated to direct, but Sam Fell eventually took the director's chair. Chomet later stated that the studio executives found his ideas regarding the characters and future merchandise too dark.
- The names of some characters are related to the world of art. Roskuro, for example, comes from “chiaroscuro,” meaning light-shadow; Botticelli is a reference to the painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), one of the masters of the early Italian Renaissance, and Boldo is named after the painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), whose work some saw as anticipating surrealism, and who created faces and human figures from fruits and various objects in the same way Boldo composed them from fruits, vegetables, and kitchen utensils.
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