The Tale of Despereaux - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Tale of Despereaux"

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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Actors and characters

English

2:30

Pусский

1:27

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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