Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2003-11-14

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Goldmann Pictures, Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Family

Budget

$80 000 000

Revenue

$68 514 844

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/looney-tunes-back-action

Director

Joe Dante

Actors

Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Bennett, Timothy Dalton, Billy West, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack, Bill Goldberg
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Paula Weinstein, Allison Abbate, Joel Simon, Bernie Goldmann, Christopher DeFaria, Larry Doyle

Operator

Dean Cundey

Composer

Jerry Goldsmith

Artist

Audition

Mary Gail Artz, Barbara Cohen

Editing

Marshall Harvey, Rick Finney, Mary Bills
All team (73)

• The release date was chosen very poorly. Originally, the premiere was planned for July, but this decision had to be changed because the animated film "Finding Nemo" (2003) was released and immediately became a box office success. The film was released in November, but immediately after the release of "Brother Bear" and "Elf", and shortly before the premieres of "The Cat" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". On top of that, Warner Bros. had not yet recovered from the problems with the film's production and budget overruns, so they did not launch a large-scale advertising campaign for "Looney Tunes: Back in Action".
• Brendan Fraser voiced Taz so well that he replaced the regular voice actor, Jim Cummings.
• When Daffy picks up his belongings, a photograph of the real Warner brothers – Jack Leonard (1892-1978) and Harry Morris (1881-1958), the founders of Warner Bros. studio – is visible in the box.
• The film was planned as a sequel to "Space Jam" (Joe Pytka, 1996). Jackie Chan was considered for the lead role, but the idea never went beyond the planning stage.
• As tradition dictates, all animated characters in the film were drawn by hand. Three-dimensional computer animation was only used to create objects such as spaceships, Wile E. Coyote's rocket, a robot dog, and Bugs Bunny's carrots.
• Elmer Fudd chases Bugs and Daffy through three world-famous paintings. These are Georges Seurat's (1859-1891) "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" from the Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí's (1904-1989) "The Persistence of Memory" from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Edvard Munch's (1863-1944) "The Scream" from the Munch Museum collection in Oslo.
• The car in the film is a Tuscan from the independent British company TVR. Approximately 1,000 such cars are assembled in the UK each year. At the time of the film's release, there was no talk of assembly in the United States.
• During the fight in the casino, Daffy advises DJ to bite someone's ear. This is a reference to the incident with Evander Holyfield's ear, which was bitten off by boxer Mike Tyson in 1997.
• When Elmer Fudd chases Bugs and Daffy through the museum, a suite from Modest Mussorgsky's (1839-1881) cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition" plays in the background – a kind of musical walk through an imaginary art gallery.
• The release date was extremely poorly chosen. Initially, the premiere was planned for July, but this decision had to be changed because the animated film "Finding Nemo" (2003) was released and became an instant box office success. The film was released in November, but that was immediately after the releases of "Brother Bear" and "Elf," and shortly before the premieres of "The Cat" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." On top of everything, Warner Bros. had not yet recovered from the production problems and budget overruns, so they decided not to launch a major advertising campaign for "Looney Tunes: Back in Action."
• The film was planned as a sequel to "Space Jam" (Joe Pytka, 1996). Jackie Chan was considered for the lead role, but the idea never went beyond the initial concept.
• Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck through three world-famous paintings. These are Georges Seurat's (1859-1891) "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" from the Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí's (1904-1989) "The Persistence of Memory" from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Edvard Munch's (1863-1944) "The Scream" from the Munch Museum collection in Oslo.
• When Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck through the museum, a suite from Modest Mussorgsky's (1839-1881) "Pictures at an Exhibition" cycle plays in the background – a kind of musical walk through an imaginary art gallery.