Slumberland

Slumberland (2022)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

2022-11-18

Country

United States

Production

Chernin Entertainment, about:blank

Genre

Family, Fantasy, Comedy

Budget

$35 000 000

Revenue

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Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/81220825

Director

Francis Lawrence

Actors

Marlow Barkley, Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, India de Beaufort, Humberly González, Cameron Nicoll, Antonio Raine Pastore, Chris D'Silva
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Scenario

Producer

Francis Lawrence, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, David Ready, Ray Angelic, David Guion, Michael Handelman

Operator

Jo Willems

Composer

Pinar Toprak

Artist

Nathan Blackie

Audition

Editing

Mark Yoshikawa
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• The film is based on the comic strip series “Little Nemo in Slumberland” by Winsor McCay, which was published from October 15, 1905, to January 9, 1927. McCay is not mentioned anywhere in the credits.
• In Winsor McCay’s original comics, Flip is depicted as short and stout, with a cigar in his mouth. Overall, he gives the impression of a circus clown. Nemo in the comics is a boy.
• The seagull named Bugsy is a reference to the famous gangster Benjamin Siegel, nicknamed “Bugsy,” who was instrumental in transforming Las Vegas into a gambling capital. His story is told in Barry Levinson’s crime drama “Bugsy” (1991).
• Flip’s words, “Sometimes a pig is just a pig,” are a reference to the phrase attributed to Sigmund Freud: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Literally in the following mise-en-scène, Flip mentions Freud himself.
• In the film, Agent Green (played by Veruche Opia) realizes that everyone in the Land of Dreams has their own personal nightmare. Nemo’s nightmare involves a giant octopus, which is a reference to Jules Verne’s 1870 novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." The appearance of Kyle Chandler (playing Peter here) is a reference to James Mason, who played Captain Nemo in Richard Fleischer’s science fiction film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). Captain Nemo fought a cephalopod nautilus there, not an octopus.