The Tale of Despereaux - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Tale of Despereaux"
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Timing: 1:33 (93 min)
The Tale of Despereaux - TMDB rating
6.1/10
883
The Tale of Despereaux - Kinopoisk rating
6.583/10
16767
The Tale of Despereaux - IMDB rating
6.1/10
39541

Film crew

Director

Robert Stevenhagen
Director
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Sam Fell
Director

Producer

Allison Thomas
Producer

Executive Producer

David Lipman
Executive Producer
Robin Bissell
Executive Producer
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Ryan Kavanaugh

Ryan Kavanaugh
Executive Producer
William Sargent
Executive Producer

Casting

Editor

Mark Solomon
Editor

Supervising Art Director

Olivier Adam
Supervising Art Director

Production Design

Evgeni Tomov
Production Design

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Chris Jenkins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank A. Montaño
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Original Music Composer

William Ross
Original Music Composer

Co-Producer

Tracy Shaw
Co-Producer

Associate Producer

Celia Boydell
Associate Producer
Peiyu Foley
Associate Producer
Casey Crowe
Associate Producer
Jamal McLemore
Associate Producer

Orchestrator

William Ross
Orchestrator
Conrad Pope
Orchestrator
Jerome Leroy
Orchestrator

Director of Photography

Brad Blackbourn
Director of Photography

Sound Effects Editor

Paul Aulicino
Sound Effects Editor

Visual Effects Supervisor

Barry Armour
Visual Effects Supervisor

Supervising Sound Editor

Lon Bender
Supervising Sound Editor

Character Designer

Tim Watts
Character Designer
Evgeni Tomov
Character Designer
Nikolay Neykov
Character Designer
Nelson Yokota
Character Designer

Lead Animator

Tim Watts
Lead Animator
Phil Dale
Lead Animator
Peter Dodd
Lead Animator
Matt Everitt
Lead Animator
Jeremy Lazare
Lead Animator

Bart Boirot

Bart Boirot
Lead Animator
Rahul Dabholkar
Lead Animator
José Luis de Lucas
Lead Animator

Associate Editor

Claire Dodgson
Associate Editor

Animation Supervisor

Gabriele Zucchelli
Animation Supervisor

Thanks

Screenplay

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Gary Ross

Gary Ross
Screenplay

First Assistant Editor

Steve Pang
First Assistant Editor
Aidan O'Brien
First Assistant Editor

Sound Designer

Lon Bender
Sound Designer
Jon Title
Sound Designer

Assistant Editor

Rob Woiwod
Assistant Editor
Erika Gonzales
Assistant Editor

First Assistant Sound Editor

Gayle Wesley
First Assistant Sound Editor

Book

Kate DiCamillo
Book

Music Supervisor

Kathy Nelson
Music Supervisor

Casting Associate

Tannis Vallely
Casting Associate

Music Editor

Post Production Supervisor

Cheryl Murphy
Post Production Supervisor

Line Producer

Tripp Hudson
Line Producer

Screenstory

ADR Editor

Anna MacKenzie
ADR Editor
Michelle Pazer
ADR Editor

ADR Voice Casting

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Caitlin McKenna
ADR Voice Casting

ADR Supervisor

Chris Jargo
ADR Supervisor

Title Designer

Bruce Schluter
Title Designer

Color Timer

Terry Claborn
Color Timer

Pipeline Technical Director

Henry Bush
Pipeline Technical Director

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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